Dean Jacqui; Mallard TrevorHon JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki): Thank you Mr Speaker. That's five minutes that we will never get back in our lives—the unedifying prospect of David Parker having a whole five minutes to waste in this House. Well there are a number of issues that this Government should be giving their attention to and that David Parker maybe should be giving his attention to as well and the issue that I want to raise today is around maternity services in the lower part of the South Island. By the way the Hon David Parker back between 2002 and 2005 was the MP for Otago so this is his patch. David Parker was the MP in the last Labour Government for Otago until I took over from him in 2005. He challenged again and I beat him again in 2008 and he has not been seen since down in the South Island around Dunedin and the Upper Clutha and Wānaka. What a shame that is because now he is a Minister in the Labour-led coalition Government and he should be talking to his friend and colleague the Minister of Health about the appalling lack of progress his Government is making to health services midwifery services and the safety of mothers and babies in the lower half of the South Island in Southland in Lumsden in the Upper Clutha and in Wānaka. Those are the most remote parts—believe it or not—in New Zealand from primary healthcare services. When David Clark was campaigning back in 2017 as the lion of a health spokesman in Opposition he campaigned and campaigned on better funding for health. He campaigned on better services for the mothers and babies of the Upper Clutha and what has he done? He has done nothing. The situation in the Upper Clutha in particular and in Wānaka has gone from worse to worse. In fact in October last year the Minister of Health admitted to me in a letter that there was a gap in the maternity facilities in Wānaka and the Upper Clutha. Well that's a good start—admitting there is a gap—but what has he done about it in this year's Budget? Nothing—no further funding for maternity services across New Zealand in this Budget. So David Parker we'll address issues in the Budget. How about more support for health? How about more support for the mothers in the Upper Clutha? Can the Minister please explain to this House why there is an increasing number of mothers in the lower part of the South Island having their babies in unsafe situations? We've had a baby born in an ambulance on its way to hospital. We've had a baby born on an office floor in Wānaka in the office of the midwife because there were no health services available to the mother. It was an unplanned birth—well guess what? A lot of them are. So the advice from Chris Fleming of Southern District Health Board to plan your delivery well—I'm sorry but babies come when babies are ready to come. There should be facilities for those mothers and babies in Wānaka. There was another case where a baby was born in a driving car. A mum and her partner were driving to Charlotte Jean in Alexandra from Wānaka going through the Cromwell Gorge. David Parker will know what the Cromwell Gorge is like. There's nowhere to stop. The baby started arriving so the mum had the baby and dad couldn't even stop the car. That is appalling. What if something had gone wrong?Why isn't there a maternal and child hub in Wānaka 10 months after it was promised by this Government? Why will there be another hundred babies born in the Upper Clutha—because we know the numbers—before this nine to five drop-in centre in Wānaka is established? It's not good enough Minister. It's not good enough David Parker former MP of Otago and former resident of Otago who should know better. This Government has failed. It has failed to deliver on its promises to—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired.