April 29, 2021
Collins slams Maori Health Authority "veto"
National Party leader Judith Collins says the proposed health sector reforms give too much power to the Māori Health Authority.
She says the focus should be on the needs of all population groups, but the proposed framework won’t deliver the resources where they are needed.
Ms Collins says the cabinet paper indicates the Māori Health Authority would have a veto on any national plans and frameworks, as well as the commissioning of health resources.
"When we look at this power of veto , this is utterly unnecessary and instead, we need better focus on the on-ground services and instead they are going to take away the DHBs from places like Northland and Tairāwhiti and run everything from a bureaucracy in Wellington. We think this is absolutely the wrong way to go," she says.
Ms Collins says what’s proposed goes beyond anything envisaged in the Treaty of Waitangi.
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