Jackson WillieHon WILLIE JACKSON (Associate Minister for Māori Development): Kia ora Madam Assistant Speaker. Tuatahi e tika ana ki te maumahara i te rangatira Ngātata nō reira e te matua maumahara tō mahi ki te tautoko Te Ao Māori i ngā wā katoa nō reira e te matua moe mai moe mai moe mai rā. [Firstly it is right to remember the leader Ngātata; therefore sir remembering your efforts to support the Māori world at all times rest in peace.]First of all I pay tribute to one of our rangatira who we had a memorial for last Sunday. Sir Ngātata Love made a huge contribution to Te Ao Māori and this country and I pay tribute to everyone in this House who has remembered him. I bring him up particularly today because he was an advocate for this type of kaupapa we're talking about today and I don't think we've paid tribute to someone who gave his life to Te Ao Māori and this country. So I mihi to him and his whānau.It's a pleasure to stand here today to hear mostly the House together advocating in terms of this kaupapa. I congratulate all those who've made a contribution: the Greens the Hon Alfred Ngaro over there. Well done to the member who—he and I have clashed a number of times over the last 12 months or 18 months. But I mihi to you for your work Alfred—fantastic that we put our swords down when it comes to this sort of kaupapa and he well knows about the poverty in his community and the child poverty that abounds in the West Aucklands and in the South Aucklands.We have to put our children right at the forefront here because they are the future of our economy and we have to make an investment—there has to be an investment in terms of child poverty. That's what our Prime Minister spoke about this morning. For too long—again as our members know the Green members National members Labour members—too much has come on communities to carry this: community organisations who have small pūtea who have small budgets. It has to be a whole-of-Government concern and a whole-of-Parliament concern.So that's why I'm pleased with the way this kaupapa is rolling out. I'm pleased with the contributions. There's no good doing too much politicking over this sort of stuff because our children are a concern for everyone: for this Parliament and for this Government. So I mihi to everyone in the House who makes a contribution and wants to advance this kaupapa and I give a commitment that I'll work alongside you too if it means advancing our children.What I'm particularly pleased about of course is that Ministers are going to be found a bit more accountable and we're going to have a framework in terms of reducing the targets and the process going forward. And I'm also pleased that there's been some acknowledgment—as I heard it earlier from the Hon Alfred Ngaro—about the Treaty of Waitangi and that partnership about what it means today. What does it mean in terms of going forward? So I'm pleased that through this bill we are seeing an emphasis on the Treaty and whānau hapū and iwi. What does that mean in a practical sense? That's a challenge for this Parliament and the challenge for this Government. It can't mean that we have the tragic history of kids being taken from their whānau of kids being put into State care at the drop of a hat with no acknowledgement and no concession in terms of where they're from how they've been brought up are they part of intergenerational unemployment are they part of intergenerational drug use? There's got to be more thought and process going into that and there's enough experts around to say Let's emphasise the whānau and the hapū and the wider family."So I'm really pleased that there's an emphasis in terms of the Treaty of Waitangi and that relationship and that partnership with Māori going forward given that the high child poverty stats are very much in Te Ao Māori. As Minister of Employment I will be trying to make my contribution in terms of implementing whānau and rangatahi programmes. We've already made a start in terms of He Poutama Rangatahi and Mana in Mahi. We need to upskill whānau. We need to create employment. I'll be working on that—again with anyone who wants to contribute; it doesn't matter what party they're in.As Minister of Employment I'm absolutely committed to developing employment policy and programmes that invest in our whānau that invest in families so that our children can have respectable and healthy lives. I welcome this bill today. I think it signals real change—transformational change—and I want a future where all our children have the ability to succeed past the circumstances that they have been born into. I congratulate everyone in the House who has made a contribution today. Nō reira tēnei te mihi ki a koutou. Tēnā koutou katoa."