Rurawhe AdrianADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare otirā tēnā tātau katoa. I want to focus in on whānau and everything that makes up a good whānau a strong whānau because that's what we want all the time. We want our families to be strong and it's a difficult place to be strong. We know that there are health inequities in our health system. We know this because the Waitangi Tribunal have told us that. We know that because there are countless reports about that very issue. And yet here we are about to potentially pass a bill which will not add to the strength of our families. It will in actual fact make it more difficult.We talk about kaupapa Māori. Terms that just roll off our tongue—manaakitanga rangatiratanga aroha. It even frames our international identity. But will it frame what we want for our families in this bill? I say it will not. It cannot because it's fundamentally opposed to those kaupapa. And I stand here in opposition to this bill on behalf of the constituents of Te Tai Hauāuru. I held eight public hui. Overwhelmingly the people that attended told me that they did not want this bill and I feel honour bound to respect their decision. But it's an easy decision for me to make.We have right now something called Te Arawhiti—the Māori-Crown relationship. Does this add anything to that relationship? We've heard the story about the bridge. That's what Te Arawhiti is—that on one side you have Māori; on another side you have the Crown. And it's Māori that have to keep going to the other side to have the issues that it is concerned with addressed. This bill does not go to the Māori side. It had the opportunity to—small opportunity to—and I acknowledge my whanaunga the member for Whanganui Harete Hipango who put up a Supplementary Order Paper to that effect. It was voted down. That is a bridge that needs to be traversed. This is not the bill that addresses important issues like that. It will disadvantage Māori further in a system which already disadvantages Māori. The health inequities are significant. We cannot continue to pass bills that continue to affect Māori and others in that way.There are other bridges to get over. There's a bridge called the vulnerable elderly. We need to get over that bridge too. There's a bridge that we need to get over called those with disabilities. We've heard from my colleague Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki about the issues for the Tongan people. There are serious ethnic disparities in our health system. This bill will be front and centre within that system which we know already doesn't work for Māori for Pasifika and for ethnic minorities. We know; the stats don't lie. We need a better bill than this.For those of you members who are voting for this bill let me ask you to consider to make sure that if you want to pass this bill ask yourself will it add to the disparities for ethnic peoples for those who are most vulnerable for Māori? I put that up in the same vein that Dr Shane Reti did in his contribution. I don't believe for one moment that this bill is going to address those serious issues. In fact I predict that within 10 years we're going to be back here if this passes because we know that Māori are seriously affected by these sorts of decisions. I cannot vote for this bill.