November 20, 2023
Bureaucrats put handbrake on Māori spending says Tamihere
Māori Party president John Tamihere says the hand brake is going on Māori spending across the whole of the public sector in anticipation of the new Government.
The Waipareira Trust chief executive says the problem is not just with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dropping te reo Māori.
He says non Māori providers are still being funded but Māori provider groups and partnerships are put on the back foot.
“We’re waiting for money to come from the Ministry of Health to get us ready for our vaccination programmes in the new year and we’re worse off now than we were before the pandemic and they know it but right now they’re holding up our funding. That’s the racism we suffer under the subterfuge of ‘oh, there’s a new government coming in, therefore we’ve got to put the handbrake on,'” Mr Tamihere says.
He says the bureaucracy is in breach of laws such as the Pae Ora Healthy Futures Act.