Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Kia orana Madam Chair. I'm delighted to take a stand today and talk about the health appropriation debate because health is genuinely the biggest spend across all of Government. We can be really proud as a Government across the benches here of the money that we have actually put into health. We have inherited some—well I could start with the dad jokes but I'm not going to do the dad jokes but we have inherited an ailing system. We have had some massive problems and there's been some wishy-washy action from National in the last nine years. We've got critical—Hon Kris Faafoi: Stop being kind!ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: —I'll stop being kind—facilities in disrepair unaffordable primary healthcare the average cost for seeing a GP went up 30 percent. The demand for mental health support has increased by 70 percent in the last decade—70 percent. There wasn't a 70 percent increase in funding to support that—oh no—and we have a crisis. Funding didn't increase by half of that and 606—606—Kiwis took their lives last year. We have the highest suicide rate in the OECD. Our workforce has been under strain over the last nine years and I completely support the Minister when he says that those workers deserve fair pay and safe and decent working conditions. We have all used the health system over—CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): Order! Look this is quite a focused debate. I'm looking at the report from Vote Health and some of the points the member makes are in here but she must reference them in her conversation.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Absolutely Madam. Me hana Madam Chair. So I am delighted today because we believe in adding value into our health system. So we have added $3.2 billion extra into the health services and an extra $750 million into the capital for hospitals—$750 million to fix our ailing leaking system that we have. No doubt most of you have heard the saying If we don't have our health what do we have?" Well this coalition Government believes that if we don't have a health system what do we have?We believe in free universal healthcare for all and as a consequence we have done our very best—our very best—to direct funding to support those who are least able to pay doctors' fees. So there will be 540000 Kiwis on low incomes able to access cheaper GP visits. Plus we have 56000 more children funded who are 14 and below. So that's 56000 more children who are going to be able to access free doctors in the system. And if we need to go to the hospital $750 million—or a new hospital in Dunedin—is going to be invested in. We're adding $80 million to the air ambulances so that we can get to our emergencies faster with more fit-for-purpose safer helicopters with bigger capacity and with more crew. That's really important in such a rurally diverse community out there. We're also increasing funding for elective surgery so that people won't be on the waiting list in pain waiting for their knee replacements etc.I think the Minister of Health is the pain relief that we all need for our health system. I think the Minister of Health has provided a great budget—one that is going to support all of us out there all of us Kiwis who use this system. We have a plan we're working on it and in fact it's going to take a while but we're going to get there. Thank you."