Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Thank you—very good choice Madam Temporary Speaker. Very good choice Madam Temporary Speaker. Today I want to talk about mental health. As the country and the mental health sector waits for the report back from the Government and waits for budgetary decisions for Budget 2019 I want to propose that in fact only one figure will be acceptable for mental health in Budget 2019 and that figure is $1.5 billion. I believe that if the amount of $1.5 billion is not announced for mental health they haven't delivered in that area and the reason for that is their own inquiry. The main recommendation said they wanted to increase access for mental health services from 3 percent of the population to 20 percent of the population over five years. Currently in Vote Health we spend $1.35 billion in delivering to 3 percent of the population to provide them with access to mental health. Taking those members' number one recommendation for their inquiry report to increase to 20 percent would require an extra investment of $1.5 billion a year for the next five years and I would state that is the reason why we're hearing nothing about mental health—silence. When they were in Opposition it was the biggest issue; now in Government they've had their inquiry and they don't like the recommendations. We can even look at the coalition agreement that states the target for mental health is to Ensure everyone has access to timely and high quality mental health services". That goal in the coalition agreement for mental health is that everyone in New Zealand will have access to mental health services. How is that achievable? They overpromised and under-delivered and that's why unless we hear an announcement of $1.5 billion for mental health in Budget 2019 they will have under-delivered. Not only that they will have let down every submitter who made a submission to that inquiry—Hon Peeni Henare: How much did National give to mental health? MATT DOOCEY: —and every person who works in the mental health sector. We hear a call of "How much did National put in?" Well interesting—that came up today because we heard from Ross Bell from the New Zealand Drug Foundation talking about the bill that was in front of the Health Committee. When we talked about those who have complex needs from synthetic cannabis use Ross Bell talked about really the fact that the only policy that will work with that complex client group is to have social housing and wraparound support and we've heard about that haven't we? That was one of the 17 mental health initiatives that got announced for $100 million in Budget 2017 and that's what this Government has rolled back. They took out $100 million from mental health—17 mental health initiatives that would have been making a difference on the ground today. How about the policy and the programme of pairing emergency responders with mental health professionals? The police were disappointed when that got rolled back by this Government. That would've been a game-changer. Those were 17 mental health initiatives that would have been game-changers. They were developed by the mental health sector and the Chief Science Advisor. That Government came in and those members had talked about mental health while they were in Opposition. They talked a big game and here we are 18 months in—silence. We've been told successively "December February March April—you'll get the report back on the inquiry." Last week we got told "Because it had budgetary expectations." Well actually no—not all the recommendations do. Repealing and reviewing the mental health Act doesn't. You could have come out with your report on that. So as I said as we wait for Budget 2019 there's only going to be one figure that will show this Government has delivered for mental health and that will be $1.5 billion of extra funding."