The political decisions were to implement some of those recommendations, and not monitor them properly to ensure that they were enforced, but not do the whole job, which has led us to where we are now, where just last year the Waitangi Tribunal conducted an inquiry into Oranga Tamariki and found that "persistent and significant disparity can, in part, be attributed to the effects of alienation and dispossession. However, it also reflects the Crown's failure to honour the guarantee to Māori of the right of cultural continuity embodied in the guarantee of tino rangatiratanga over their kāinga. As such, the report finds that disparities are a direct consequence of the Crown's intrusion into the rangatira of Māori over their kāinga."