April 12, 2022
Select committee peek bad news for Māori Authority
National’s health spokesperson Shane Reti says the Māori Health Authority is being set up to fail.
The select committee considering the restructuring of the health sector is due to report the legislation back later this month.
Dr Reti believes Māori will be bitterly disappointed.
“What they’ll see is what I see, that Māori are effectively being set up to fail with the Māori Health Authority. I can’t give any details because that is still held within committee, but I suggest people keep a closed eye on the second reading, and then they will know what I know,” he says.
Dr Reti says National’s answer to inequities in the health system will be to absorb the Māori Health Authority into a strengthened Māori health directorate within the Ministry of Health.