Lyndon HūhanaHŪHANA LYNDON (Green): We live in unprecedented times in Aotearoa New Zealand tonight. Why do I say that it's unprecedented? Because this Government has deliberately introduced this legislation knowing full well that it would restrict the jurisdiction of the Waitangi Tribunal to hear the urgent claims into the disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora this Thursday and Friday. At no other time have we seen this. I would like to ask the Minister what advice did he receive? Knowing that the date was set for the urgent hearings what advice did he receive from his officials on the urgent hearing and the impact that introducing this legislation today would have on the jurisdiction of the Waitangi Tribunal? We were advised at 6 o'clock tonight from the Waitangi Tribunal that its jurisdiction to hold the urgent inquiry on Thursday and Friday as scheduled is now vacated. So the question to the Minister is: what information and advice did he receive knowing this was no surprises? We knew that urgency was happening. Our people te Iwi Māori need to know how did he make his decision to introduce the legislation tonight. Further we're wanting to examine the capacity and capability of Te Aka Whai Ora to understand kaupapa Māori services cultural safety and responsiveness of services to improve Māori health outcomes. It's a kupu tāpiri—it's a little bit along the lines of what Peeni Henare has said—but I do want to share and I do raise the concerns that I did raise earlier in my previous speech that having two Māori voices on the current Te Aka Whai Ora board is only a few out of the seven. Then with the disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora our whaea Tipa Mahuta will lose that position and we are left with one. Therefore some of the tasks of Te Whatu Ora require that there needs to be engagement with te Iwi Māori and there needs to be capacity to work with our iwi-Māori partnership board and so there's two levels of engagement that I'm asking for the Minister to provide a response on. Does he believe that the Te Whatu Ora board in its current capacity has the ability to engage both with iwi-Māori partnership boards and te Iwi Māori whānui and what are his plans to fill those gaps? Is he going to expand the board table? Will he recruit more talent knowing that we have talent across the Māori health sector—as we've heard from previous speakers—that could come on board to help power up this new mainstream waka of ours that will be the rongoā for te Iwi Māori health issues? In closing I want to share Kahurangi Tureiti Moxon's feedback on breakfast TV this morning where she said that the existence of the Māori Health Authority gave us some semblance of control and that we could do what was right for us but instead here we are being plonked back in a system where we started and right back into a system that doesn't really work for Māori. She added that she doesn't believe that it will work for te Iwi Māori. So that's the challenge for our Minister and for the Government: how will this model—or actually we don't have the plan; all we know is kāore kāore. What is the plan and can you give us assurance that we will see the plan as te Iwi Māori and have the ability to help input into what is the new waka hauora for us? Kia ora.