Leary Ingrid; Salesa JennyINGRID LEARY (Labour—Taieri): I find it quite incredible that Te Paati Māori has chosen not to speak on the long-term fiscal position. I'm happy to do so in relation to Māori health because if there's any party that should be speaking on Māori health I think it's the Māori Party. Māori have been side-lined and excluded for decades and they have the worst wellbeing outcomes in New Zealand. We all know the statistics. They've got significant lower life expectancy and significantly higher rates of chronic and infectious diseases injuries and suicide. The report acknowledges that if we think COVID has been difficult the challenges that we're going to face around some of these things like health like an ageing population and like climate change are going to make COVID look like a walk in the park. It highlights the importance of planning. There's a saying an old saying: if you fail to plan then you plan to fail. Well National has no plan. Their policies have failed Māori. In fact they simply don't have policies. They say they want equality of opportunity but they refuse to articulate a single policy that will help Māori achieve equality. Worse they say they will cut the new Māori Health Authority completely. History shows that a tweak here a tweak there doesn't work for health reform. We need to make a fundamental change and I have seen what by Māori for Māori" and for everyone else can do in my own electorate in Taieri looking at Te Kaika. It's our local health provider. They were the first in New Zealand to set up a drive-through vaccination clinic at the Edgar Centre in South Dunedin. They had that clinic set up overnight prior to the vaccines even being delivered and the Southern DHB thought "Oh we'd better get on to that waka." They got the vaccines delivered. Te Kaika got vaccines into people's arms incredibly quickly. My own family went down and by December 2021 almost 100000 people in Dunedin had been vaccinated by them. They drove the region to one of the highest vaccination rates for Māori in New Zealand. That is what collaboration looks like that is what success looks like and that's the type of model that the Māori Health Authority will be able to empower in New Zealand. It's about partnership. It's about having a seat at the decision-making table for health. But the National Party don't understand wellbeing. They don't understand that wellbeing is achieved differently by different people and then achieving wellbeing is a key driver of equity. The report that we're debating today underscores that. It highlights how important social inclusion is for our long-term fiscal health. The Treasury gets this. In fact the Treasury yesterday released a report which looks at the Living Standards Framework and it tweaks them. It adds to them some fundamental institutions such as whānau hapū iwi households civil society markets and so on. And what that does is it helps us to get a baseline for wellbeing from which we can plan into the future. That report says that addressing 21st century challenges means a greater focus on long-term intergenerational wellbeing outcomes. That report by Treasury itself says it's going to take more than macroeconomic levers to do that. That's how this Government operates as a Government. We are looking at wellbeing we take wellbeing seriously and we are measuring it. It has given us the baseline to be able to make the 1 April changes which have put more money into the pockets of students superannuitants working families minimum wage earners and others. We have done that by taking this country through COVID and weathering COVID with an economic outlook that is better than many of our key trading partners. Our economy has grown by 4.9 percent outperforming most of the OECD. We are in a strong fiscal position. Despite what the other side would have you say our debt is lower than expected. Our deficits are lower than expected. National has no plan except to cut taxes for the rich for those earning over $180000 by several thousand dollars a year by giving $2.50 or so tax cuts for our lowest workers and by building a whole bunch of new roads. Well that's not going to be great for climate change. Labour has got us through COVID and Labour will get us through the next decades because we have a plan we care about wellbeing we have a baseline and we care about people. Thank you Madam Speaker.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): A reminder to all of our members who are online. Please seek a call if you're expecting to take a call. The next call is a split call and I call on Debbie Ngarewa-Packer who is joining us remotely—five minutes."