Coffey TamatiTĀMATI COFFEY (Chairperson of the Māori Affairs Committee): Thank you Madam Chair. The Māori Affairs Committee did indeed conduct the annual review of the Ministry of Māori Development otherwise known as Te Puni Kōkiri (TPK) which has been established to advise the Government on all policies and issues affecting Māori. It's also in charge of improving achievement in several other areas including training and employment education economic development and also health. In terms of the things that we covered off during our annual review hearing we did hear the full gamut of things—notably the financial performance of Te Puni Kōkiri of which they've had an increase in their budget—mainly because of COVID-19 and what was experienced last year and hopefully the Minister will be able to talk us through some of the innovative things that happened as everybody was trying to deal with the impacts of a closed border and COVID-19. Over and above that we covered off another look at the strategic direction of TPK. We looked into how TPK was supporting Māori into housing including utilising the framework called Māori and Iwi Housing Innovation. So hopefully we'll hear a bit about that as well. We heard about how TPK had expanded the coverage of Whānau Ora because that was quite an interesting change in what traditionally has been the Whānau Ora approach. In this case we heard how TPK was partnering with hapū and iwi to enable decision making within local communities to support local aspirations and outcomes. We heard about the four trial sites: Te Tihi o Ruahine Whānau Ora Alliance Te Whare Maire o Tapuwae Charitable Trust the Huria Trust in Tauranga and the Raukawa Settlement Trust as well. We also heard about the Whenua Māori Programme noting that TPK and the Ministry of Justice did receive a joint Budget bid in Budget 2019 to deliver the Whenua Māori Programme with the aim of connecting Māori to their whenua and providing Māori land owners with tools to govern to manage to succeed to and to develop their land. We also heard about the targeted legislative reform of Te Ture Whenua Maori Act. We heard in the annual review hearing about Māori in STEM education—so making sure that we're supporting Māori into science technology engineering and mathematics particularly with a focus on information technology—and we also heard about the Indigenous Collaboration Arrangement that New Zealand and Australia have signed up to to progress Māori economic aspirations. We asked about the programme and the outcomes so far and we heard great things. In terms of a procurement target for Māori business that was the discussion for a bit of our meeting. We heard that 5 percent is the starting point and that TPK would review its success in 2022 with a consideration about potentially raising that target up to 10 percent. So as with many of the other hearings that we heard about earlier on today one of the biggest and most immediate responses that we had to talk about and to deal with in the last year in terms of TPK was obviously the response to COVID-19. So hopefully the Minister can talk to us about how TPK worked with various iwi and Māori communities in that immediate response period to COVID-19. Thank you Madam Chair.