Woodhouse MichaelHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National): There is no better illustration of the non-delivery of this Government in their year of delivery than in the health sector. Last month I went to the Southern District Health Board's board meeting where I found out that on a year-to-date basis their elective cardiac surgery target was behind by 45 percent. They had only achieved 55 percent of their year-to-date target. So I did some back-of-the-envelope math and I asked the Minister for some answers. That equates to over 70 people who should've got their elective surgery by now and who haven't. There are another 30 to 40 people in the Canterbury region—over 100 people who should've had their cardiac surgery by now that haven't.For the first time in 10 years we are on track to do fewer elective surgeries than in the previous year on both a numbers and a case-weighted basis and yesterday in question time the Minister said that it was going to get worse. Another 2300 elective surgeries have been cancelled this week alone as a consequence of the junior doctors' strike. He also said that he was aware that there had been people who had been cancelled not once not twice but even more than that. So it's not overstating it to say that in this year of delivery people's health and even their lives are at risk as a consequence of this Government's mismanagement of the health sector.But he was happy to be responsible for the cheaper GP fees for more than 600000 New Zealanders—fair enough—but what he didn't say was two things: it was six months late and actually what they promised was cheaper GP fees for every single New Zealander. Four and a half million New Zealanders were going to get cheaper GP fees from this Government and they let them down by about three million. Remember Dr Clark wailing and gnashing his teeth in Opposition at a survey that showed that one in seven New Zealanders were not able to go to a GP because of affordability? And what's happened—the number of people who can't afford to go to the GP has gone up not down. Over this Government's time it's gone from 14.3 percent to 14.9 percent—non-delivery. Where's the world-class cancer care they promised? Where's the response to the mental health and addiction report that the Minister has had for months and has been delayed three times? Now they're saying they're going to fold it into Budget 2019. That's OK but there are a number of very good recommendations in that report that don't have any financial impact. They could have been doing it now—not delivering. Where's the free health checks and the free eye checks for our senior New Zealanders and the increase in the age for breast-cancer screening to the age of 74 which is in the New Zealand First - Labour coalition agreement?Erica Stanford: Where are they? Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: Nowhere to be seen not delivered on and don't even start me on medicines-funding. Where's the money for Dunedin Hospital? We all looked at each other in Budget 2018 when it came out and said No money in the budget for Dunedin Hospital". Well I'm going to make a prediction: at the end of this month in Budget 2019 there's going to be no money for Dunedin Hospital. This is from a Minister who in Opposition petitioned the previous Parliament that the Government should have started the rebuild of Dunedin Hospital in 2017 and two years later not a thing—non-delivery. That's because this is a Government that's got its priorities completely wrong. It's given fees-free in student fees to the children of millionaires but it didn't let the millionaires miss out either; if they were over 65 they were going to get the winter energy payment whether they needed it or not. My colleagues who are still having children who are still high income earners—some of them on several hundred thousand dollars a year—are getting a baby bonus. In the meantime elective surgery is going backwards. The removal of national health targets that the Minister said created perverse incentives has created even more perverse incentives. People could be dying because the Minister does not want to set expectations for throughput of our DHBs—non-delivery in surgery; non-delivery in cancer care. We had Blair Vining standing at the Cancer Care at the Crossroads conference where his wife said her husband would be dead if he had kept to the appointment that the Southern District Health Board had given them. This is a Government that is not delivering and it's not got its priorities right."