Hayes JoanneJO HAYES (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. I am very proud to stand up and speak on the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Bill. It's been some years actually—I managed a providership back when there was the old Mental Health Commission—and I'm pleased to see that this has done a big circle and actually come back and will be established and that everybody in the House is supporting it. I want to say that ring-fencing of mental health funds actually worked back then and I'm pleased to actually see that it's part and parcel of this commission bill. I also want to say that it's really good to have a focus on Māori mental health because in Māoridom we don't talk about mental health as openly as what we do on any other health issue. I just want to say that we have people on the commission like Hayden Wano who comes with a wealth of experience in Māori mental health the Māori health sector and Māori development per se. His wealth of knowledge will go down well as part and parcel of this commissioning agency this Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission body. I also want to make note of Moe Milne as well. Moe also comes with a big background within Māori mental health and it's good that she has been part and parcel of its development moving forward because we cannot lose sight of the issues of Māori mental health in this country. I want to talk a little bit about a contribution on this side from Barbara Kuriger who talked a little bit about Tokanui. Well back in the day—and I remember this very well—when I set up the youth one-stop shop in Palmerston North we had a number of Māori men that came through our youth one-stop shop who had suffered from mental health issues. These were people that had ended up being sent to Lake Alice as young rangatahi. Some of the treatments in Lake Alice that happened to them—electric shock treatment—were absolutely appalling. And what had happened was that I was left dealing with these adult men who were I would say victims of that type of mental health treatment back in the day. I just wanted to bring that forward because I'm pleased that we have moved on from that type of treatment and to not ever have it again in our mental health system no matter that people may think it's a way to adjust a behaviour. I don't believe that. I think there are other ways to address mental health treatment. I'm pleased that it's going across all systems this Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. It is very much like Whānau Ora whereby it places the people at the centre of the services. So in the past mental health always worked off the Te Whare Tapa Whā model; Te Pae Māhutonga was also another model a Māori health model that was used within mental health. And I'm pleased to see that the Whānau Ora way of delivering services through navigation is going to be highlighted through this particular commission even though they may not say it but the action will actually be a navigation service. I'm pleased to see that other agencies are going to be part and parcel of the wellbeing approach. It always should have been in the past and I'm pleased to see that this is what's going to happen. I just want to touch a little bit on corrections as well and ensuring that this commission also reaches out into the area of corrections. Some of the inmates that are there do suffer mental health issues and will benefit from a commissioning process that this bill is proposing.So without any further ado I want to support the bill through to the next stage. This side of the House has been strong in our approach. We have had a number of ideas and proposals go forward and even though it may not seem that they've been picked up I think that they will do well.Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.