Korako NukNUK KORAKO (National): Kia orana e Te Kaiwhakahaere. He mihi atu ki a koe huri noa i Te Whare nei he mihi atu.[Greetings Mr Chair. I greet you and all those in the House.]Can I first of all acknowledge the Minister for Māori Development in the chair the Hon Nanaia Mahuta and also the Hon Andrew Little the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations. I'm going to concentrate more on the Māori development part because my learned colleague the former Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations I am sure will actually have an input into the Treaty negotiations part of it.The previous speaker my whanauka but also our chair of the Māori Affairs Committee Rino Tirikatene—I'm glad that you and I can actually agree to disagree because of the fact that we on this side of the House particularly where Māori development is concerned to us this particular Budget these Estimate appropriations are actually a travesty. When we look at the fact that when we were in Government the narrative at that time was What is good for Māori is actually good for all New Zealand." So when we look at the Labour-led coalition that we have here at present what we have as a narrative is "What's good for New Zealand is actually good for Māori." So the whole narrative has been turned around. So when I look at the appropriations for the Budget 2018 and the Estimates for Vote Māori Development the main thing that strikes me most about that is there is a lack of a real and apparent plan. There is no real clear initiative either for our Māori voters. So that is why our Māori voters when we've looked at this—Hon Willie Jackson: That's why they voted for us.NUK KORAKO: No because basically what they've actually done is—they actually feel betrayed. They really feel betrayed. Because what they were promised pre - 2017 election was that there was going to be transparency and there was actually going to be a lot more money put into Māori development and what they got when you look at this Budget is zilch. Actually it's decreased but I'll come to that. But the other part too is that when you all went to Rātana and when you went to Waitangi you said "Hold us to account."—that's what your leader said. So look out when you go back there next year and even when you get there in November because you will definitely be held up and told that this is the situation now.So coming back to the Estimates when the former Labour Government Minister John Tamihere publicly states in his column that no amount of spin by Labour's 13-strong Māori caucus—five of whom are Ministers and in Cabinet—can hide the fact that Budget 2018 for Māori has been cut by this Labour Government. You've got to get worried when that actually happens. Māori are aware that this Government are treating them as though they're really ignorant and that they actually can't count and I'll tell you why. When you look at the Minister for Māori Development I mean she has actually stated in the House that the appropriations for the 2018 Budget have not decreased—they have not decreased. So this is why our people get upset. It is because the fact is when you look at it now in our Māori Affairs Committee report that these are all based on the situation is that it has actually been cut by 4 percent. There's a 4 percent decrease. So when we look at the 2018-19 total—$316.421 million. And then when we look at the 2017-18 Estimates—$328.727 million that's a 4 percent cut. So that there is what this is about. And when we look at it that's only in the first year—the 4 percent—the second year and third year and fourth year is going to be another 6 percent. So let's highlight this too. The fact is that the budget for Māori development over the next four years has actually been cut by 10 percent."