Their colleague the housing Minister is not even wanting to recognise the deep housing plight our people suffer. There is clearly a disconnect between what the Māori and the Government want and what its senior civil servants and many of its Pākehā Ministers want. As we look ahead to the Budget next week, Te Paati Māori will be keeping an eye—a close eye—on if the Government is delivering for tangata whenua. In last year's Budget, we only saw 0.3 percent of all funding allocated towards targeted Māori spending. That is simply not good enough, and it's embarrassing. The Crown must recognise that tangata whenua have our own solutions for our own problems. The best thing they can do is to devolve thunder and power to us so that we can get on with it. 