I've previously spoken about the reasons why we need to reform our health system, not the least of which is that Māori die seven years earlier than Pākehā. And it's not just Māori that experience poor health outcomes that the system needs to address: Pacific people, rural people, and disabled people are just some of the New Zealanders for whom the health system needs to perform better. The system has failed too many people for too long, and that needs to change now. If we don't begin to invest in the future of the health system, we will never see change. That would mean tolerating more inequity, more ill health, and more premature deaths. We need to make change for reasons of equity—we've established that. We need to make change in order to properly fulfil our obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi. The essence of the Treaty is an agreement for Kāwanatanga—Government—which also respects the rangatiratanga—leadership by Māori of their people. We've started to see, when we govern on the basis of acknowledging rangatiratanga, such as when we handed responsibility to Māori to lead a COVID vaccination programme for their people last year, then we can make a real difference. I reject utterly the argument by some that enabling Māori to lead their people on health in their own way and to express their rangatiratanga is biased or separatist or in conflict with principles of good governance.