Korako NukNUK KORAKO (Chairperson of the Māori Affairs Committee): Ā tēnā koe e Te Kaiwhakahaere huri noa i Te Whare nei e mihi atu ki a koutou katoa. It is a pleasure for me to take this call in this appropriations debate for Māori other populations and cultural sector. It is a privilege indeed to be a Māori MP within the National caucus and also to be the chair of the Māori Affairs Committee.This Government is indeed delivering for Māori particularly when we look at the measures—The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order! I am going to interrupt the member early as I did with other chairs to remind him that his role is to report in as neutral a manner as he can as the chair of the committee rather than give a partisan speech. That is why the member has an extra speech and the member's team has an extra speech so he can do that. It is a warning I have given to previous chairs. He can take another call if he wants to be partisan and talk about a particular party's programme.NUK KORAKO: Thank you for the guidance. The Māori Affairs Committee heard evidence from the Minister for Māori Development the Hon Te Ururoa Flavell Te Puni Kōkiri and also the Office of the Auditor-General. When we look at the total appropriations for Vote Māori Development they are for 2017-18 $312.9 million. The Minister conveyed to the Māori Affairs Committee that within that there were 15 new policies including additional and actual new funding. That new funding actually covered particularly additional funding—first of all $2.5 million for Whānau Ora; then also for the Māori housing initiatives which was another $5 million; and then new funding under that was for Te Reo Māori of $6.5 million.One of the things that the Minister highlighted along with Te Puni Kōkiri was that in the 2017-18 appropriations there was actually funding of $71 million to achieve the Whānau Ora outcomes. When we look at that a lot of the funding itself was concentrated around the Whānau Ora Outcomes Framework which was a principle measurement. We found in the presentation that there was actually a lot of commitment more so to the way that the Whānau Ora initiatives are actually measured and monitored.One of the things was that it very much highlighted the seven outcomes that Whānau Ora was going to deliver on—or that it is delivering on. One was self-management others were to live healthy lifestyles participate fully in society and confidently participate—that was the big one in Te Ao Māori in the world of the Māori: Whānau and families are economically secure and successfully involved in wealth creation". That particularly came within that Whānau Ora piece around Māori entrepreneurship and the development of that particularly and Māori actually being in charge of their own destinies—particularly in businesses and employing Māori within those businesses as well.There was another part of it that talked about being cohesive nurturing and also very very resilient within the whānau space or the whānau area. The responsibility was also for stewardship to the living environments particularly around the upkeep and the kaitiakitanga of Papatūānuku—so the environment was very very important inside of that.At the committee we were told that there was some real sort of tangible process that was achieving these outcomes and that the Minister was satisfied with that performance. He was questioned by a number of us on the committee but there was a very very clear way in which this was presented around that measurement. For example we heard that just over 1014 whānau were prioritised in a housing report particularly with insulated houses. So that was under that Te Pou Matakana."