Hayes Joanne: Estimates Debate — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHayes Joanne: Estimates Debate — In Committee[Sitting date: 11 August 2015. Volume:707;Page:5615. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JOANNE HAYES (National): I am pleased to stand to take this 5-minute call on the Māori development area of this theme. But before I do that I just want to make a few comments about a previous speaker. It does sadden me and kind of makes me really angry that people can stand in this Chamber on the Opposition benches and have a go at our outstanding Minister for Māori Development. The great work that he has been doing—Sue Moroney: It’s called accountability.JOANNE HAYES: —listen listen—he has taken on the challenges and he is coping very well with the work that he is doing.I want to support Te Puni Kōkiri and the restructure there. This is a senior executive manager who knows what she is doing. She is doing a marvellous job there and I do take umbrage at the fact that people can stand in this Chamber and have a crack at her after the good work that she is doing. The work that she does is not easy—it is not easy when you are restructuring a ministry as complex as Te Puni Kōkiri—but I believe that the work that she is doing is going to be of great value to Te Puni Kōkiri in the future.My next kōrero is about Whānau Ora. I worked in Whānau Ora and I helped in its development on the ground—on the ground. I have seen the whānau I have talked with the whānau and I have interviewed the whānau that Whānau Ora has helped. When Whānau Ora first came about yes it was a new concept but many Opposition members thought it should just start off like it had been going for many many years. It takes time for good things to mature and Whānau Ora is one of those programmes that will take time. It is developing the goods. You just need to talk to some of the whānau whom it has helped over the 4 to 5 years that it has been operating.We talked a little bit I also heard in the Committee about homeownership and Māori homeownership. The Minister for Māori Development has done the most amazing thing which has never been done by any Government before but which has been done in coalition with the National Government and that is being able to build houses on Māori land. In the past that was never able to be done. They are able to actually access loans to do that. I am very proud of what he has done.When we start to look at other areas within the Māori development portfolio under Vote Māori Development we can look at Healthy Families New Zealand. This is a project that Jonathan Coleman launched in the East Cape just recently in April. It is the Healthy Families East Cape project which belongs to the lead provider Te Whare Hauora o Te Aitanga a Hauiti. They established—hello—a Whānau Ora collective called the Horouta Whanaunga Collective a collective that comprises 17 providers and nine iwi groups. It is a collective that has come together to address health issues at a local level. At the end of the day where we are the most effective is with helping our own working with our own and coming up with the decisions and the outcomes at a local level.So when I look at Māori health I see that over 50 percent of Māori are now enrolled in these low-cost accessible primary health organisations. I was there at the start of all of that time when primary health organisations were being developed and at one stage we thought that Māori were going to miss out on that. But low-cost Māori primary health organisations came about and so we have 350000 Māori enrolled in them paying up to $18 for a GP visit which is great for Māori whānau as is the new announcement on 1 July of free GP visits for under-13s. That has never been done in the history of this Parliament and it was the National-led Government that pulled all of that together.Education as I have said many times is freedom. It is freedom to make choices and the tertiary education area for trades academies is one area that Māori have shone in. I want to talk just a little bit about the Ngāi Tahu He Toki ki te Rika. That is pre-trades training that was developed post-earthquake in 2011 and it has over 800 students enrolled in it. Just recently in April the Prime Minister was hosted by Ngāi Tahu where he launched He Toki ki te Mahi Apprenticeship Training Trust programme and that has 10 to 15 apprentice carpenters. This is great news for Māori. It is great news for iwi because of the steps the benchmark and the power that iwi can have within the tertiary sector.I am very proud to stand here and speak on Vote Māori Development. I am a Māori; I support all Māori things—it does not matter what colour the politics are. I support Māori achieving and everybody in this Chamber should be looking at that and at every which way we can help. Kia ora.