With Ministers like these.....

After admitting that he had not asked for a dime for Maori in the budget because he couldn't be bothered, Parekura declares his love for his people. Despite them being, well you know -- them...

Hon Georgina te Heuheu: Did the Minister advocate for the cutting of funding for local level solutions for Mâori in this year’s Budget, or was this programme cut because, as he himself has described in this House, advocating for Mâori is “tiresome”, and he could not be bothered arguing for it?

Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA: Sometimes we do feel like that when working with our constituency. But they are great people. I also added that we loved them, irrespective of how they made us feel.

I give him 2 months.