How many businesses do we have? We have over 500,000 small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in this nation. Pasifika make up 5 percent of those SMEs—that's around about 20,000 businesses who are people of Pacific descent. We've only got 140. What's the reasons why? Here's what they said: "We need more evaluation and we need more research." That has been almost the "Kumbaya" of this Government. That has been the chant: more research, more evaluation, more advisory committees. 