Henare PeeniHon PEENI HENARE (Associate Minister of Health (Māori Health)): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. And first can I just support the condolences to Sean Wainui and his family at this point in time—a truly tragic event and our thoughts and prayers are with them.Back to the world of the living and I want to support my colleague the Hon Chris Hipkins in thanking Tāmaki-makau-rau for doing the heavy lifting. They have been in lockdown for a very long time. I meet with them daily to make sure that we can continue to support their efforts not just to care for them but also to support their efforts to drive up vaccination rates amongst Māori Pacific communities and right across Tāmaki-makau-rau. The numbers there are strong but we need them to continue to rise which is why I used the term very carefully yesterday in the press conference: whānau ma COVID-19 is on your doorstep and we need you to wake up we need you to seek the right information the correct information from proper sources to make sure that you can make an informed decision to take the vaccine.On the vaccine: Super Saturday well what an awesome day. I went out to Takapūwāhia and saw vaccines and rongoā Māori hangi rēwena bread and the community all in the same place. What was just as important as the vaccine was the community spirit is alive and well despite the pandemic trying to break it despite some of the Opposition humbug trying to break it the community spirit is super-strong. I just want to give a couple of numbers. Of course just over 21000 Māori received the vaccine on Super Saturday. Just about half of those are first dose which is super-exciting. I want to congratulate my colleague the Hon Meka Whaitiri. Waipukurau: 17 percent of the Māori population there vaccinated on Super Saturday. Great work as a collective of the DHB Māori health providers local GPs and local pharmacies as well as the council—that's how we do it. That's how we roll and that's how we'll continue to get our numbers up.I also want to acknowledge Te Tai Tokerau where I come from. I miss that place and I know they've been doing it a bit tough. They've been in lockdown too with Tāmaki-makau-rau over the past few weeks but despite that on Super Saturday their people came out. In fact of the top 10 vaccination sites in this country Tai Tokerau takes four of them and that's absolutely awesome. I'd like to say it was after my visit there but none the less I know that they all worked together to make sure that they can reach our Māori communities. I'm really really thankful for the work that they do from vaccinators to kaiāwhina to those giving out the hangi to those aunties and uncles and Māori wardens who are ushering our whānau into vaccination centres and into health clinics around this country.I also want to thank our kuia and kaumātua. Their vaccination rates amongst our people are the highest and that's really important. Why? Because all of us look up to our elders like that. I am asking our kaumātua and kuia now to have those conversations with their whānau to make sure that they can continue to protect their whānau their hapū and their iwi as we move forward into this pandemic. And I'm really excited that as we continue to grow our Māori vaccination rates we can start engaging again as a community like we saw on Saturday. The team of 5 million—well guess what baby! It was back and it was back in fine form and in particular for our Māori communities and our Pacific communities and I'm super-excited about that.Today we heard from the National Party about Māori vaccination rates. When asked for a plan they couldn't come up with one. And given their deputy leader is a doctor I suspect he's now dressing in personal protective equipment to go around the country to try and vaccinate every Māori in this country. The National Party has not had a plan for Māori vaccination rates. In fact I recall when we announced the Māori vaccination plan in March they made it clear that it was separatist that we couldn't have that that it was one country that we were a team of 5 million and now all of a sudden they want to jump on the old Māori hōiho. Well I can tell you if they're looking for a target the target that they've been trying to find for so long now—and they've flip-flopped between different members—is probably on their leader's back. And I say that because despite the rantings and ravings from a number of their colleagues from a number of their caucus it was quite clear that they lack leadership. They've lacked leadership from the start of the pandemic and they continue to lack leadership today. What we heard from Mr Woodhouse was nothing but business business business. What we're saying on this side of the House is it is about whānau it is about hauora and it is about our communities growing back stronger and resilient into the future.Finally in the last eight seconds in a moment of harikoa I want to say happy birthday to my tuākana Whatitiri Te Wake in the press gallery—happy birthday cuz.