Ngarewa-Packer DebbieDEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori): Kia ora. First of all I'd like to confirm that Te Pāti Māori will be supporting this bill. We'll be supporting this bill because it is simple and practical. We also note that the founder of this bill our colleague Minister—gosh I had better remember: Matt—Matt is one of the good dudes on this side. And even though I called him Chris Luxon for much of the last three years we must give credit where credit's due.I think one of the things that Matt has done is he's absolutely shared vulnerability and made it OK and I think it's really important that we help to destigmatise and use our sphere of influence in the right way. Another thing he did was he reached across cross-parties for engagement even though one of those cross-parties only had two MPs at times. It mattered. And this is something that really matters to us.And Te Whare Tapa Whā which I'm sure many here in the Whare will know is that we must prioritise mental health alongside every other health objective. So I'll get that bonding out of the way with you Matt. It probably won't happen with you guys ever again so let's enjoy it!But we do have our w'ānau who are desperately in need of help and they're in need of us to be able to understand and draw bridges across the systems and use legislation at times to help. So we totally agree with the Green Party's view that there must be an overhaul in our Mental Health Act and in fact the system.Sadly what we have seen is a prevalence of mental distress amongst Māori and we are 50 percent higher affected than non. Māori are 30 percent more likely to go undiagnosed than anyone else in Aotearoa. And our rangatahi suicide rates are beyond any imagination of what it is that we must think about in our solutions.I want to share while we've got this opportunity which is why Te Pāti Māori's health policy—and I don't want to make this about pitching for our health policy—Carl Bates: But you're going to.DEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER: —but the reason we specifically talked about—be quiet Carl—our kaupapa Māori mental health service is because we know we have such dire issues. And our dire issues require us to actually take a really unique view. So we believe we've got to work together but until we can address the inequity and the issues that we have we believe that we must have a kaupapa mental health service so our mental wellbeing becomes something prioritised first.And it was something we really talked about when the Pae Ora legislation came out. Part of that was adopting and delivering recommendations from He Tapu te Oranga o ia Tangata: Suicide Prevention Strategy. And I know Matt that you will know a lot about that—Minister sorry—and also that we talked about providing free mental health services in every community. So we all know the number—1737—but it's not always accessible when digital equity is an issue in a lot of rural areas. We also talked about the fact that we need desperately to be able to normalise and make accessible that our w'ānau get tautoko and awhi when they need it and how they need it by those they recognise and by those they can relate to.So a Māori mental health approach must be different. It must be different because our dire and our desperation is so much worse than everyone else. That is not asking for a separatist system; it's actually asking for a targeted approach to stop the horror that we see going on. And I really appeal that as a follow-up we continue to focus on what some of those solutions will look like.Look I want to say a couple of other things before we conclude. We are in dangerous land of some of our rhetoric as we tension ourselves between whose way is right or wrong. And I can't say this enough: Te Pāti Māori's neither left or right; we're Māori first and foremost. And with some of the language the Tiriti principles bill the smoke-free environment and the belief that there is an anti-Māori agenda going on out of this House we fear that we're creating harm. And so we will continue to support movements that appeal for unity.So I just want to say yep finally that we do support this bill. We caution on all our responsibilities that we have to make the world a better place but particularly when it comes to our mental health. So ngā mihi and I'm really pleased Matt that I didn't call you Christopher Luxon once in this whole speech. Kia ora rā.