Davis Kelvin; Tisch LindsayKELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau): I will take that opportunity then to acknowledge the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations the Hon Chris Finlayson. I think regardless of which side of the House we sit on he has done a really good job in getting Treaty settlements through the House. I know that they are not always unanimously agreed to by various iwi and hapū but in general you cannot fault the work that he has put into that portfolio. I just also want to talk about the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act because I think that was actually an amazing groundbreaking piece of legislation that has given Te Awa o Whanganui the status of a legal person. I think that that is legislation that should be used throughout the country to make sure that we do protect all our waterways not just Te Awa o Whanganui. I hope it is replicated.The Government will tell us how great the country is going. The difficulty for many Māori mainly those Māori at the bottom end of the scale is that they are not really feeling the love. If we look at Māori homeownership rates it is now down around 28 percent which is the lowest Māori homeownership rate ever in the history of New Zealand—going right back to the time when everybody lived in an eco-whare. That has got to change. We cannot afford to have our people living in cars living on the streets living in doorways having to be put up in marae such as Te Puea Marae. And when they are having to be put up in marae I would like to think that more than $10000 would go towards putting them up there. Māori unemployment—one in 10 Māori is now unemployed. That is over twice the rate of non-Māori. Part of that can be put down to the education system. We hear how NCEA rates for Māori have grown and improved over the last 9 years and yet we are still not seeing that reflected in the ability of Māori to get jobs to the same extent that non-Māori can. That needs to change.When we had Minister Flavell in front of the Māori Affairs Committee we asked him about Whānau Ora. The concept of Whānau Ora we agree with. I believe that there needs to be more Government support towards the implementation of Whānau Ora. We cannot just rely on the commissioning agencies to do the work and not be funded for it. I believe when the former Minister for Whānau Ora Tariana Turia first developed the idea of Whānau Ora she actually wanted considerably more—millions and millions of dollars—to make it happen. So Whānau Ora financially is a shadow of what it should be. It is trying to achieve huge outcomes with not enough pūtea not enough funding. I just take my hats off to the commissioning agencies which are doing the best they can with the resources they do have.When the Minister in the chair the Hon Te Ururoa Flavell was in front of us at the select committee he mentioned there was a $5 million fund set aside to get Māori out to vote. The reality from our understanding from our inquiries is that that $5 million is yet be used at all. I am not sure this is the appropriate time to ask questions of the Minister but it would be good to know what has happened to that $5 million fund. Is it being used to get Māori to register first of all as voters? As the Minister said in the select committee regardless of who you vote for can we get Māori out? A huge proportion of our people does not vote. They need to and so we would like to know what is happening with that fund.The Minister also spoke about and gave a couple of anecdotes about how things are improving for some whānau. The question was raised in the select committee looking at the anecdotes that were given and the work that some agencies have been given—millions and millions of dollars to use—how is that work actually different to the work that many of our electorate offices are actually doing out in the communities? Imagine the work that our offices could achieve if they too were funded to the tune of millions and millions of dollars.The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): Does the member want a call?Barry Coates: Mr Chairperson.The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): You need to call. I call Barry Coates.