Ngarewa-Packer Debbie; Rurawhe AdrianDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori): Kia ora. Tēnā koe. The wellbeing of our people and our w'enua should be at the heart of every decision a Government makes. So when this Government delivered its first Wellbeing Budget two years ago it was a step in the right direction. It sent a strong signal that the strength of an economy can't be measured by GDP alone but by the wellbeing of its people and our environment it serves. We have long known as tangata w'enua that GDP is not an accurate measure of the success let alone the health of our people yet standing here today it is clear that the Government must do more to address decades of under-investment deregulation and liberalisation of the economy. So while it was a step forward the Wellbeing Budget fell far short of the transformative policies our people need. As we always have been Māori are at the sharpest end of the disparities of our broken economic system. Pākehā have net worth almost five times higher than Māori. Non-Māori have 13 percent higher median wages. There has been no significant decrease in poverty for w'ānau Māori despite decreases for the general population. Homeownership is becoming completely unattainable for Māori. Māori homeownership rates have fallen since 1999. In the latest census Māori individual homeownership fell to 26 percent compared with 41 percent for non-Māori. Eleven thousand Māori are currently on the social housing register waiting list. Half of the entire waiting list are Māori and for those who can get into social housing it is still unaffordable. Current data indicates that 30 percent of Māori pay rent that is over 30 percent of their weekly income. Māori unemployment rose in the first quarter of 2020 to 9 percent and the rate of young Māori not in employment education or training is at nearly 20 percent. We continue to see our w'ānau disproportionately suffering complex social problems including high rates of poverty and the worst youth suicide rate in the developed world. It should hardly be a surprise then that this remains the situation for our people when the so-called Wellbeing Budget only delivered 0.3 percent of its overall funding in targeted Māori funding. A true measure of Budget success is how many structural barriers were removed how many of our people's aspirations were advanced because only then will we make a real difference for our w'ānau. Te Paati Māori are very clear what our Budget priorities are and what we would be doing. We need to massively ramp up targeted Vote Māori funding and ensure resources get to our people on the ground. Our people have their own solutions. This includes increasing Whānau Ora funding and ensuring that it goes directly to the commissioning agencies; not lost in Government departments. We need to invest in what works and Whānau Ora has proven itself to be delivering life-changing outcomes for our w'ānau. We would ensure all Māori medium education is funded equal to its mainstream equivalents through equity-based funding models and establish a $200 million fund to drive w'ānau hapū and iwi education and training initiatives including the establishment of new hapū-based wānanga. Te Paati Māori would double baseline benefit and student allowance levels individualise benefits and cancel income support - related debt. We would intervene directly in the housing market to build thousands more homes and introduce a targeted Māori housing plan that includes specific financial support schemes for home loans. We would create business and employment opportunities for our people by ensuring 25 percent of all Government procurement contracts are given to Māori organisations. We would establish a Māori health funding authority with a budget of $5 billion to oversee purchasing distribution and operational delivery of the per capita Budget health entitlement for Māori. Te Paati Māori would listen to the pleas of our people and address inequities in cancer funding reduce the screening age for Māori and ensure the life-saving cancer drugs are subsidised by Pharmac.The Government's books are much healthier than expected. Interest rates are low. Now is the time for transformational investment across social services. Our people expect nothing less. In this Budget I'm hoping to see a lot more than 0.3 percent of the total allocation targeting specific Māori disparities. We know how making positive impacts the wellbeing of Māori. We need a Budget that truly improves the quality of our lives for w'ānau through good jobs; high incomes; warm affordable homes; and equitable access to health and education. This Government has an outright majority in this House; probably something we won't see again in my lifetime. They have the mandate to truly uplift the quality of life for our people if they have the will to and they are running out of time to use it. We ask that this Government prioritise its focus on our people and that both sides of the House stop scrapping and focus on our people once and for all. Kia ora rā. DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired.