Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Oh thank you very much Mr Chair. It's a pleasure to take a call. Wow what an absolute shambles. I mean first they try and pass a motion to be taken in one debate—couldn't even get that through. Normally when you take a one-debate call it's because you want to expedite the bill as quickly as possible. Here we are with their flagship health-restructure bill and they want to expedite it as quick as possible because as we knew about the Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) of the rural community strategy—and then we had the Government members trying to move a motion that they forgot even to vote for. There was no voice—a bit like the no voice from rural Labour MPs who sat on their hands and saw a bill being put in the House in first reading with no rural strategy. They sat on their hands during the select committee stage and didn't even raise the issue about a rural health strategy so it came out again without a rural health strategy. And then we now find out from the Minister that he had an epiphany where he woke up one day and realised Oh I need rural health strategy."—might have been the morning after the poll I think. And it was all down to his Labour rural MPs. Well I know myself Dr Shane Reti Nicola Grigg we're getting the texts now and we're getting the emails from senior rural health leaders who know exactly who has been instrumental in getting that changed and that has been the Opposition. So I want to look at clause 10 because I want to ask why the Minister is not determining a mental health strategy. If we look at this bill being proposed around a lens of equity then why would you not have a strategy around mental health? When you look at the submissions with one of the leading NGOs who said "There is no explicit mention or prioritisation of health equity for people with mental health and addiction challenges yet this group as a whole experience some of the most serious health inequalities."—"some of the most serious health inequalities" in New Zealand. People with mental health issues have a life expectancy 20 years shorter than the average Kiwi—they have huge health inequalities. Yet we are told by this Government this is a bill about equity—equity when it suits them. So we have a Government that came in promising to transform the mental health system in fact asked thousands of Kiwis to go to their own inquiry hearings and tell their very personal and traumatic stories about their experiences in the health system. They have a once-in-a-generation chance for the health restructure and this bill—well what did most of the submitters call it? The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission and the Mental Health Foundation said mental health was invisible. So how have we ended up in a situation where there is no strategy under clause 10 in Part 2 for mental health addictions and wellbeing? My final point is and I'd like the Minister to answer when you look at those groups—Māori Pasifika our disabled community the women's community or population—you've got to ask yourself whether mental health would be one of the quietest voices. Is that the problem here? Is it because people with mental health issues haven't yelled enough or haven't threatened electoral pressure? Why have they been left out? Because I would have thought the voice that came through the thousands of submissions in this Government's own mental health inquiry would be a very strong voice. Why would you when you came into Government promising to transform the mental health system not have a mental health strategy under clause 10 that says the overview of the Minister's role includes determining the following health strategies?"