SpeechHon NICKY WAGNER (National): Yes there has been consensus across the House and yes National welcomes this establishment of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. It's a good response to the Government's inquiry into mental health but we also believe that there really must be a focus now on urgently delivering front-line mental health services particularly for the communities facing a post-COVID world. We believe that more front-line services are essential if we are going to support New Zealanders perhaps with anxiety with stress and maybe isolation as well as mental health issues and also to promote mental wellbeing going forward. There needs to be more work I think on community services for early intervention and increasing accessibility to mental health services across New Zealand for those who have been adversely affected by the lockdown for those who perhaps may be losing their jobs going forward and for the other effects that the pandemic is bound to deliver.So we're very pleased to see this bill now in the House. We think that the select committee process was particularly collegial; it was particularly thoughtful and serious and it has been helpful in designing a more effective commission. We think that the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission will contribute to better health outcomes and it will provide a systems level oversight of mental health and wellbeing in New Zealand. I just want to note that it is independent it is a Crown entity and that will give it the opportunity to have independence from the Government of the day but it's important that it builds on the roles of existing organisations that contribute to mental health and wellbeing by coordinating across the whole system.It really has three major jobs. The first is to assess and to publicly report on mental health outcomes and the wellbeing of New Zealanders—and this is going to be particularly important in the following months and years post-COVID. It's also to advocate for the collective interests of people who have experienced mental distress and addiction. We certainly believe that we need to have some more insight into how we manage these cases. Finally it promotes the alignment collaboration and coordination of all entities that are involved in mental health in the country.We do note and it was interesting to listen to one of our members speaking before that the commission takes special regard to the experience of and outcomes for Māori in our community. Interestingly the commission will not take individual complaints; this is about a whole-of-community response and following of policy through there.So in conclusion National supports the development of an independent Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission but our main concern at the moment is the need for urgent front-line medical health services particularly when we're dealing with suicide and we've noted also during the submissions the high rate of suicide in rural communities at the moment and certainly as we face disruption of quality of life post-COVID and understanding that many people will be stressed will be anxious and will be affected from things that have happened in the past and things that are going to happen in the future. It was interesting to look at the provisional suicide statistics that came out last year which showed that 685 people died from suicide. That was a rise of 2.5 percent and I think when we look at the vulnerability of our community going forward we must make sure there's particular support for those mental health services.Finally I just want to make a general comment. I think we all recognise that mental health is a particularly challenging social issue. It affects a large number of New Zealanders—in fact somebody made the comment that everyone in New Zealand is affected whether it's in their own health or somebody in their family or the people that they know. I think it's really important that we carefully consider how we can manage mental health going forward and I think this commission will contribute to doing that but certainly we really must advocate for increased front-line services so that we can deliver urgent support as we go forward. Thank you Mr Speaker.