Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Mr Speaker thank you very much. Can I first acknowledge the hundreds of thousands of parents around the country who are breathing a sigh of relief that schools will open tomorrow. They're looking forward to their kids getting back into school.SPEAKER: Some schools.MATT DOOCEY: Some schools they are. But there are still hundreds of thousands of parents who are breathing a sigh of relief and as you say Mr Speaker I also want to acknowledge those still in lockdown and the stress and the anxiety of being in lockdown for an extended period. Research does show that there are elevated levels of distress the longer someone is in lockdown. Can I also acknowledge our hard-working small business operators and our tourism operators. Recent research in New Zealand showed that 50 percent of our small-business operators had identified mental health concerns as did 35 percent of our tourism operators and of course I'd like to acknowledge our very hard-working and committed mental health workforce that even through the lockdown is going in and every day providing valuable support treatment and therapy to some of our most vulnerable New Zealanders.So what is stress? Well for me it's the ability or inability to deal with the stress and anxiety in your life. Mental health is how you cope with those stresses. Some people have the resilience and some people don't. So what has this Government done for the last year in mental health since the last lockdown? One thing I can point to is the very well-known and proven All Right? campaign that led a mental health promotion campaign in Canterbury after the earthquakes and was funded to deliver a nationwide mental health promotion campaign in the last lockdown over a year ago. Their funding was cancelled this year in July. It is interesting that in response to parliamentary questions the Minister of Health believed that wellbeing had dipped slightly during March and April 2020 in alert level 4 but quickly recovered as alert levels decreased and then returned to pre-COVID levels. Maybe that's the reason why we haven't had any increase in mental health support since the lockdown in 2020. Yet the research by Dr Susanna Every-Palmer from Otago University showed that we have still an escalated level of emotional distress in the community even when lockdown levels were reduced and restrictions in place were taken away. We still have an extremely high level of emotional distress in the community and the Government comes out in the last 10 days and announces $1 million for young people in Auckland. Well granted that's OK—$1 million for young people in Auckland. How do we know this Government will deliver that $1 million will spend that $1 million? Of course they've got form in this space. Two years after Budget 2019 they announced a lot of money for mental health. After two years they've underspent that budget by $50 million. They're sitting on $50 million of mental health funding.Let's look at other services they've promised. In the front-line mental health service how do we know that $1 million is going to end up on new services on the ground? The front-line mental health services were trumpeted in 2019—they were putting mental health workers in GP practices. Over 2½ years later there are still 75 percent of GP practices where there is no mental health support—75 percent after 2½ years. What about the support they were going to offer our most vulnerable transitioning out of mental health in-patient facilities? They promised to support 100 people out of our in-patient facilities. How many did they reach after one year? Three. But it still cost them $1.8 million and I challenge the Government: where is that money being siphoned off to by the bloated bureaucracy of mental health officials in Wellington? One year after the lockdown in 2020 here we are again: high rates of emotional distress but no support from this Government.