Kanongata'a-Suisuiki AnahilaANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI (Labour): Oh right. Kia ora kia ora Mr Chair. It's a privilege to stand and make a call on the health Estimates. Before I do that it would be remiss of me not to comment on some of the—I'm not sure of the contributions from the other side in terms of them saying They've had 18 months to do something. Can't they do something now?" Reports have said there is evidence that in the nine years of National many of our social issues including the health system were being ignored and now we are paying the price for them. I want to acknowledge Dr Liz Craig's contribution and her analogy that New Zealand was malnourished—in her analogy of New Zealand under National we were malnourished. In fact it was shown especially in South Auckland at Middlemore Hospital where sewage was seeping out of hospital walls. There was no plan for cancer underfunded Pharmac and an underfunded health system by over $2.3 billion. I want to acknowledge the leadership of the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern and I want to take us to the priorities of the Wellbeing Budget. It's always a privilege for me to stand and make a contribution. The Wellbeing Budget I want to remind everybody—I could just say it's medication for what National has left us after nine years: taking mental health seriously improving child wellbeing supporting Māori and Pasifika aspirations building a nation transforming the economy. What that is saying is that we are looking 30 years ahead not just three and unlike National who were basically doing nothing in the last nine years. I want to acknowledge the Minister the Hon David Clark in terms of our vision. Our vision for the future is one where people in distress—the support they need is when where and how they want it. That's why as a Government we have asked for the report of the Government inquiry into mental health He Ara Oranga. The reason why is that we needed to hear from people about what they needed and that's what happened. Mental health is an example of how actions speak louder than words—actions speak louder than words. We said we'd do an inquiry and we've heard from the chair of the Health Committee that the majority of those recommendations from that inquiry are being undertaken by this Government. What that is saying is we have a plan for mental health. What we've seen when we say we're taking mental health seriously—if we take us back to the report of the Health Committee on page 3 what it talks about is that Vote Health has been allocated $827.3 million over four years with a total of 16 new policy initiatives where there was underfunding for mental health and wellbeing. We've heard that the priority was identified like I said through talking with New Zealanders as identified by the He Ara Oranga report. I want to just share some of the package in terms of when we say we're taking mental health seriously in terms of a free nationwide front-line mental health service that is easy to access and immediately available for anyone suffering from mental health issues benefiting hundreds of New Zealanders. We are in an era where we are talking to ourselves more than ever individually. Technology social media—every New Zealander speaks in their mind every day in terms of social media and what that is saying is that we need to look in those areas and invest in mental health.I want to take us again to the Health Committee Estimates report on page 4 where it talks about how it aims to have access for mental health. The pivotal words in there are "access to mental health" and that's what we're doing. That is what this Government is doing and I want to acknowledge the Hon Jenny Salesa there who's in the chair in terms of her previous Budget announcement about rheumatic fever in South Auckland something that the National Party was doing really well but then they stopped funding it—doing something well and they stopped funding it. I want to acknowledge the Minister on her leadership in that investment back again into South Auckland. Thank you."