Ross Jami-Lee; Rurawhe AdrianJAMI-LEE ROSS (Botany): Thank you very much Mr Assistant Speaker. The buzzword for this debate seems to be well-being Budget" and I congratulate the Government. That's good packaging good marketing and they're doing a good job of selling their approach to Budgets. But I also have to agree with my old friends on the National Party side that are effectively saying that well-being is what Governments always focus on and that's true. When I look at the Budget Policy Statement I see that there's words in there about taking a long-term intergenerational view thinking broadly about impacts positive and negative—well that's effectively social investment and that's what Bill English and the National Government championed. So the Government's doing a good job in packaging and marketing their Budget as a well-being Budget. They've effectively taken social investment and they've rebranded it and are selling it as their own and you know in Parliament we spend all this time arguing who's right and who's wrong but that's politics for us. I am wanting to focus on the fifth of the five big goals of the Budget priorities for this Budget Policy Statement around supporting mental well-being for all New Zealanders. This is an important aspect that I think all New Zealanders are interested in. Mental health is a priority for any Government. It should have been the priority for the past Government and I'm glad it's a priority for this current Government. Of course when we look at all of the wording that's out there in the approach to mental well-being and the approach taken in the report by the inquiry there's a lot of focus on Māori well-being and Māori mental health. There's a lot of focus on young people as well and that's true. Māori mental health challenges are greater than those that are non-Māori and it's true that we have a very high proportion of young people that are ending their lives by way of suicide. It's the highest reason for deaths among young people. But I think we also need to remember that the highest rates of suicides in New Zealand occurred in males aged 25 to 44. That's an area that isn't often discussed. It doesn't often get headlines. Of course a focus on youth and of course a focus on Māori and Pacific health and those issues do get a lot of attention but let's not forget that males aged between 25 and 45 need a huge amount of support and focus as well. So I hope that when the Minister does put together his recommendations off the back of that inquiry and I hope that when we discuss this in the future we can also talk a lot more about males in that category because they are hurting themselves at a higher rate and that's not good enough. We need to ensure in New Zealand that males know it's OK to speak up and it's OK to ask for help and that we have community resources there to assist them. The Mental Health Foundation was correct I believe when they put in their submission on the Budget Policy Statement that we need to move some of that balance to not just focusing almost solely on acute mental well-being and support there but also on community-based resources. Of course if we take the well-being approach or the social investment approach—whichever label we want to put on it—if we don't address mental well-being early on and if we don't get in at the community level and people do get to an acute point then that ultimately costs the Government and the taxpayer more in the longer term. So my plea to the Government is to of course focus on mental well-being as you are suggesting but don't forget the men aged 25 to 45 as well. When it comes to other priorities in this Budget Policy Statement when we look at the wider question of well-being of course we don't lift well-being in New Zealand unless we can address the standard of living. To address the standard of living we have to address the cost of housing and if we don't address the cost of housing properly then all the well-being initiatives and all the approaches in the Budget won't amount to much because the cost of housing is one of the highest costs that any New Zealander is going to face. If the barriers to homeownership and the cost of housing continue to be high and if Governments—whether they're blue or red—don't adequately address land supply then we're not going to see much improvement in the standard of living and we're not going to see much improvement in the well-being of New Zealanders. So I say to the Government that in all of their priorities in the Budget and everything that they do we must also remember that we have to properly address housing affordability and that's going to include land supply. If we don't get proper Resource Management Act reform and if we don't open up land more then we're not going to see the runs on the board that we want for New Zealanders. So in terms of the approach of this Budget Policy Statement I think that if we were to take the politics out of it whether we're blue or red or whatever colour we could probably support that long-term approach. But approaches to mental health and approaches to the standard of living need to continue to be addressed. ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I call Kiritapu Allan—five minutes."