A/HRC/26/3 Government’s intention to tackle remaining racial discrimination in the country. It made recommendations. 90. Angola welcomed the ratification of OP-CRC-SC and the support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It commended New Zealand for its commitment to combating racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance, and its constructive role in the preparation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. Angola made a recommendation. 91. Argentina highlighted the priority given to strengthening Government-Māori relations, the improvement in the protection of children against mistreatment and neglect and the reduction of domestic violence and encouraged New Zealand to continue action in those areas. Argentina welcomed measures to improve the rights of LGBT people. It made recommendations. 92. New Zealand provided further information on the Treaty of Waitangi settlements process and indigenous rights. Settlements might include land, money and an apology from the Government. In most cases, legislation providing for the settlements was approved by all parties in Parliament. The Government sought to negotiate settlements for historical Treaty grievances that were timely, fair and durable and aimed to reach agreements with all willing and able claimant groups in the forthcoming years. The Government had established a Post Settlement Commitments Unit in recognition of the ongoing relationship matters that arose from Treaty settlements. 93. In response to advance questions and comments regarding engagement with Māori concerning the Marine and Costal Area, New Zealand confirmed the Government had received 34 applications since the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act had been passed in 2011. The Government would monitor the number and provenance of applications and consider establishing a programme to promote a direct engagement mechanism among Māori closer to the 2017 application deadline. 94. New Zealand had established a Ministerial Committee on Disability Issues in 2009 to provide increased coordination across agencies and advance implementation of the New Zealand Disability Strategy and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Those priorities had been outlined in the Disability Action Plan. The Committee would develop a mechanism to implement the obligation under article 4, paragraph 3 of CRPD to ensure that the representative organizations of persons with disabilities were involved in development of legislation and policy relevant to them and to recognize the importance of having leadership on disability issues come from persons with disabilities themselves. 95. New Zealand confirmed that accession to the Optional Protocol to CRPD was a key consideration. The Government’s Funded Family Care scheme, introduced in 2013, invested $NZ 23 a year million in supporting family carers of persons with disabilities. 96. The Māori Disability Action Plan, launched in 2012, provided strategic direction until 2017 to meet the support needs and priorities of Māori persons with disabilities and their whānau (families) through Disability Support Services. 97. Responding to an advance question from Germany, New Zealand noted that many of the Better Public Services programmes focused on reducing inequalities between Māori and Pacific people and other New Zealanders. The programmes set goals for the public sector to track and achieve in order to deliver faster, smarter and more effective public services. For instance, new health services in urban centres focused on Pacific children, providing rapid access nurse-led community services to reduce rheumatic fever. 98. New Zealand children aged between 5 and 19 years had the right to free education. The Government was addressing the particular challenges that some children faced in 12