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Download AudioLabour’s Māori spokesperson Willie Jackson says he’s looking forward to his successor as Māori Development Minister being in the hot seat this afternoon.
It’s scrutiny week, when ministers are grilled by select committees about their Budget responsibilities.
Mr Jackson says he’s keen to ask Tama Potaka about government procurement of goods and services from Māori businesses – something he made a priority when he was minister.
“We were up towards 8 percent which is 8 percent more than what New Zealand First wanted. In fact New Zealand First stopped procurement. I imagine they’re stopping Maori procurement now. So proud of what we did, proud of what Jacinda did in terms of bringing it in and I will ask some of those questions of Tama today in terms of strategy around procurement,” he says.
Mr Jackson says he wants to know whether the procurement target has been dumped like many other Maori-related initiatives.
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