26287 (2023). Hon Willie Jackson to the Minister for Māori Development

26287 (2023). Hon Willie Jackson to the Minister for Māori Development: Does the Minister agree with Casey Costello's comments on 12 February 2023 that “…the worst thing you can do to our young people is deprive them of aspiration by saying that, you know, you cannot achieve on merit, that we need the special institution, the special representation, this idea that you're kind of going to be not not given a hand up, but a continuous handout, and that those that claim to represent these, these most at need, they have the perfect opportunity to deny any culpability for failing to deliver because they blame things like systemic racism and colonisation for the failure to deliver. So we just end up with a downward spiral of welfare dependency of no tangible benefit”, and if not, why not?

Hon Tama Potaka: The coalition documents and speech from the throne outlined the intentions of this Government.