Korako NukNUK KORAKO (National): E Te Mana Whakawā tēnā koe. Can I first of all acknowledge all here on this side of the House particularly because they support me and the fact is that we do not support this Budget 2018. I want to talk around the Māori development budget. I don't want to talk yet—that'll be later—around the Treaty settlements one which actually the Budget has dropped by $30-odd million.But talking about the Māori development allocations I want to go back to the beginning of this year when I watched the posturing earlier of the Prime Minister and her Māori Ministers and Māori MPs at Rātana and also at Waitangi. The Prime Minister talked about a shared social and economic well-being for Māori and she also said to those gatherings You need to hold us to account."—you need to hold us to account. So here we are May 2018 and where is this Government at with their promises to Māori?Their rhetoric like their Māori development budget is empty—it's totally empty. There was $37 million more for Māori quoted by the Hon Nanaia Mahuta and also Kelvin Davis. The reality is that it's $15 million less in the Māori development budget. There's no $37 million more for Māori; there's $15 million less.Well here's the response that the Prime Minister will have to give at Waitangi next year to the iwi chairs and also to those marae that she will visit. It goes like this: she'll have to say "Labour cut your Māori development budget—that's what we have done. Labour cut your ability to utilise your Māori lands by $11 million." Labour took $9 million away from the Parihaka development projects. Labour cut $6 million from Te Puni Kōkiri funding because they don't want to see Te Puni Kōkiri having the ability to ensure that they're going to give proper advice to Government departments.The other thing that Labour did is they have cut by $1.5 million the funding to provide practical assistance and resources to whānau Māori housing projects—that is to improve housing outcomes for Māori. They cut it—$1.5 million. Oh and if you're not feeling bad enough already Māori people Labour has promised you $20 million in funding for Whānau Ora—$20 million—but now there's no intention of making that any good because there's nothing in the Budget for it. That's what the Prime Minister will have to say when she's held to account at Waitangi next year.Now the previous speakers across the House have fudged the facts—as have both the Hon Nanaia Mahuta and Kelvin Davis and others. They say that they have increased Māori funding. What they are doing though is quoting mainstream Budget allocations. Labour may call that new Māori money; I call it assimilation. It's pure assimilation. Māori are being assimilated by this Labour Government. They've slashed the Vote Māori Development fund and then claimed ordinary Budget expenditure as Māori-specific funding. Māori should be prepared to kiss tino rangatiratanga goodbye under this Government. They'll need to get used to more Government dependence.So the reality is there's less money for Māori development there's less money for Māori health there's less money for Māori education and also with this disaster called KiwiBuild there's less money for Māori homes. This Budget for Māori is a travesty. This Budget for Māori is an own goal for Labour. And this Budget for Māori—we're going to see some real negativity here. This could be the first winter of discontent coming up for Māori now. Kia ora."