Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. Well very interesting with that last speaker the Minister of Police who talked about having big solutions big visions for the issues—how about the issue today in Canterbury with our police attending 55 percent of their business they deem as non-core business? They're turning up to mental health; they're turning up to domestic violence.What was visionary was the last National Government in 2017 who announced the mental health co-response service to pair up mental health professionals with police to go out to those mental health crisis call-outs that police are turning up to and not wanting to be there. And what was the first thing this Labour Government did in the start of 2018? They cancelled that service. So much for a Government that promised to transform the mental health system! They came in and their first action was cutting the co-response mental health service. Five years of inaction and that's why we have in Canterbury today 55 percent of police work they're deeming as non-core business. No wonder they don't have time to go and catch the criminals because they haven't been resourced. The Labour Government can go on about 1600 new police officers. Well a senior police officer told me recently—he said Matt if I'd heard about the 1800 new police officer policy by Labour I would have said to them 'Don't give us 1800 new police. Give us the co-response service because that would have given us more and time and resources.'"Isn't it interesting with the Prime Minister's statement the Prime Minister finished with the comment "let's get cracking."? "Let's get cracking." after six years—remember what the statement from the Labour Prime Minister was six years ago: "Let's do this." So in six years they've moved from "Let's do this." to now "let's get cracking." What is the meaning of "let's get cracking"? It means to do something quickly. Finally after six years they've accepted they've done nothing and they need to move quickly. Incompetence—this is a failed socialist experiment that has failed New Zealanders.Not only will I be looking at what the Prime Minister said in his statement today but let's think about what he didn't say in that statement. Did we hear about KiwiBuild? No. What a failure. Did we hear the words "three waters" mentioned once in the Prime Minister's statement? No. What an abject failure three waters has been. Did we hear about the $1.9 billion for mental health in the Prime Minister's statement? No. Remember they used to parade the $1.9 billion around like a trophy and now it's like a millstone around their neck. Even the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission came out with its first damning report and said that despite the $1.9 billion they'd made no material improvement. How can you spend $1.9 billion and make no difference? Labour can; that's exactly what they do.Think about that mental health inquiry six years ago. A lot of New Zealanders came out and told their heartfelt personal and traumatic stories. That inquiry made a report of 40 recommendations. Does Labour ever speak of those 40 recommendations today? No. Zip. De nada. Quietly shelved away in a back office somewhere. Forty recommendations $1.9 billion for mental health and nothing talked about. What they did talk about in mental health though—a direct quote: "Students can either go to a health professional in their school … be referred to youth health services"—or wait for it—"[go to] child youth [and] mental health services". What a kick in the guts for parents today whose kids are stuck in waiting lists trying to go to child and youth and adolescent mental health services. Very interesting with a Ministry of Health annual review at the end of last year.The biggest barrier to timely mental health in New Zealand is a mental health workforce crisis that has occurred under Labour's watch. From June 2021 to June 2022 psychologist vacancy rates have increased by over 50 percent mental health nurse vacancy rates from June 2021 to June 2022 by a hundred percent and psychiatry vacancy rates in our health system a 125 percent increase in one year. That's on these guys' watch. We've got a mental health workforce crisis.What about the statement by the Prime Minister "We will continue to rebuild our health system with the Christchurch relocation of mental health services"? Tell that Prime Minister what happened last year in Hillmorton—an in-patient facility was closed for good. It had an over 50 percent vacancy rate that it could not service its patients. It was warned at the time that if that inpatient facility closed the beds would be lost for good. Let's not forget written parliamentary question data revealed that for the $1.9 billion we have no extra mental health inpatient beds. Now we lost 10 last year that are lost for good. Telling about the relocation of mental health services in Christchurch—we've lost services under Labour. Let's look at the in-patient occupancy rate of our mental health facilities operating at over a hundred percent occupancy. Clinical guidance is 85 percent occupancy for patient safety—we operate at over a hundred percent. This is all under Labour's watch. So I'm not surprised the Prime Minister didn't talk about the $1.9 billion.How about the 13 new mental health facilities that were announced by Labour in 2019? The Prime Minister quoted "Nearly a dozen large projects are expected to begin this year including mental health facilities in Waikato Lakes and Tairāwhiti". In 2019—how many years ago is that? Four years—I tell you what: in 2019 Lakes was announced at $26.9 million. You know how much the Government has spent of that to date? Zero dollars. In four years they've spent none of that money. Tairāwhiti—a new facility was announced for $23.7 million. Four years later they haven't spent any money of that $23.7 million. Waikato which the Prime Minister refers to in his statement—$155 million was announced in 2019. How much has been spent to date four years later on that new inpatient facility? Zero—zero dollars four years later. He's got the nerve to come to the House and say "Let's get cracking." Let's look at those 13 projects announced four years ago: over $500 million of investment announced; they've spent $10 million of that four years later. Two percent that's been spent with our inpatient facilities operating at over a hundred percent capacity. Then the Prime Minister didn't stop he couldn't help himself—he went on to say "We will continue to build a primary mental health support system from scratch. 2.66 million New Zealanders now have access to free mental health services through primary care organisations such as GPs." All those New Zealanders have access but how many have used it? That's where we can see the consultancy spend going into the spin doctors because the reality is that programme has stalled. That four-year programme is struggling to be operated out of 50 percent of our GPs. Those workers in the GP practices are at the moment delivering less than three sessions per worker per day.Everything this Government has touched on mental health has failed. Remember the hope—remember the hope six years ago that they were going to transform the mental health system; $1.9 billion and here we are. The Prime Minister comes out after saying "Let's do this." six years ago. Now it's "Let's get cracking." The problem is you've spent $1.9 billion and you've absolutely done nothing. That's why the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission came out and said that despite the $1.9 billion there's been no difference. What was even more damning is a Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission that said there was no clear plan to execute change to make a difference and that's why this Government is an absolute failed socialist experiment."