6. Government agencies should give further consideration to the findings of the Waitangi Tribunal in its 2021 Haumaru report into aspects of the COVID-19 response including: a. Funding and resourcing Māori service providers to reach communities, particularly in providing targeted support in rural areas and with the continued vaccination programme. b. Providing targeted support for tāngata whaikaha Māori, including through self-isolation and caring for Māori with COVID-19. c. Prioritising work to improve the quality of quantitative and qualitative data on tāngata whaikaha Māori, in partnership with Māori disability care providers and community groups. 7. Government agencies ensure that public health measures, including those around vaccinations, are applied in a way that does not disproportionately impact disabled people and their whānau. 8. Health agencies give further consideration to providing financial support to Māori providers, Pacific providers, mental health and addiction services, and other service providers delivering high quality care to disabled people, in recognition of the additional care and support they provide disabled people, many of whom feel ignored or let down by health care services during the pandemic response. Designing systems and policies for disability inclusiveness (medium-term) 9. All government agencies undertake work with disabled people to improve real-time data collection, modelling, monitoring and rapid analysis using high quality ethnicity and disability data across multiple levels including case numbers and rates, transmission, severity and access to and quality of care (including the performance of public health responses) to inform and assess strategies for disabled people. 10. All government agencies consider how best to invest in whānau as natural supports for disabled people. This includes understanding the best way to support particular communities, such as Māori,and Pacific peoples. 11. All government agencies explore the impacts and possible solutions to the digital divide in Aotearoa, including its impacts on disabled people and their whānau. 12. The health sector continues work to increase availability and accessibility of mental health and addiction services for disabled people and their whānau, and ensuring services are able to respond to increased demands in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and its responses. Transforming society’s cultural assumptions about disability (medium-term) 13. Ensure disabled people are able to fully participate in all levels of the COVID-19 response, from governance and advisory roles, to supporting on the ground responses as professionals or educators. 14. Government agencies with disability support responsibilities to ensure Mahi Aroha – the Carers’ Strategy Action Plan 2019-2023 is fully implemented and that there are actions that: a. Recognise the value of carers and other disability support workers. b. Provide professional development for carers and other disability support workers. c. Appropriately remunerate carers and other disability support workers. 43