Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. I rise to take a call on this—DEPUTY SPEAKER: I beg your pardon: it's a split call.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: —yes ma'am—New Zealand Public Health and Disability (Waikato DHB) Elections Bill. It's a bill that it feels like I just spoke on yesterday! This bill is very simply something we have done in order to quickly fix a matter before the 2020 elections for the district health board (DHB) in Waikato needed to occur. Essentially this is a bill that is fixing a problem that many of the members here across the House have traversed really really well and significantly. I'd also like to acknowledge Dr Liz Craig and her comments when she talked about the DHB staff leaving and heading overseas because of the wage and salary pressures that have occurred over a number of years—a number of years—perhaps say nine long years during that time just to pick a number.So one of the things that I think is incredibly important about this piece of legislation is that our Minister Dr David Clark has acted very quickly to immediately come in and prevent the cost of an election occurring and to essentially take control of the matter as we know. I previously have lived in Hamilton for 18 years and—Jamie Strange: The Tron"!ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: —I lived in "the Tron"; yes I did—during that time I gave birth and I recall also another time when my husband and I were out surfing and he had an accident. A fin sliced his foot—very nasty; right to the bone. We were way out the back of Raglan and I had to drive him through to the hospital. Now you will understand Madam Speaker that there's black sand. His foot was completely covered in black sand. The DHB at the time at A & E—they were wonderful. They took him into a side room and while we were waiting in the queue they washed the wound so that when he got what felt like hundreds of stitches in his foot it was actually preventing infection. Those were the kinds of things that we expected from our DHB.I will come back to the bill. DEPUTY SPEAKER: Please—please. ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Ha ha! I will come back to the bill. So those were the kinds of things that we expected. Of course what we have come to understand with this DHB is actually that while the clinical services have been continuing as best they can we have had difficulty. It's really important that the commissioner was appointed Dr Karen Poutasi and then she pretty much immediately acted to have Dr Kevin Snee appointed. As a consequence—I personally do not know Dr Poutasi but along with what everyone else said I think we have an absolute champion for the community who is going to be working alongside the other members. So this bill very simply was agreed across the House. Our select committee was very very collegial in our agreement that we needed to act. We needed to act in a very short time frame because we needed to prevent the 2020 elections from occurring and the cost incurred. In fact there was more of a mess to clean up than the next few short months would allow Dr Poutasi. So despite talking about the surfing injury of my husband who happens to be watching tonight which is why I popped that in I would just like to commend the bill to the House and to thank the Minister for his good work in this area. Thank you."