Reti ShaneDr SHANE RETI (National): Thank you Madam Chair. And thank you to all of those who did their work around the annual reviews and replied to questions and did their very best to get us the information that we require to sign off these annual reviews and the accountability that we have to the New Zealand public to say that we held the Government and held the officers to account as appropriate and as is required in the annual review process.I have a sequence of questions and when they're not a yes/no answer I'll have a little bit of narrative behind them so that the Minister can either write it down or check with officials to make it easy to reply. Then I'm hoping to have a riposte back to whatever the answers may be. My first question then looking at the year in review is: what was the total consolidated debt across all district health boards (DHBs) in their last financial year and did the Government subsequently absorb that debt? So it's a question around the total consolidated debt for DHBs before they ceased existence.The second question is: which of the tagged contingencies in Budget 2022 have been drawn down and by how much? Now there were a number of contingencies. Some of them most of them had in fact multimillion-dollar contingencies in Budget 2022 that also came into effect during the year in question. They generally required a business case and a sign off by the Minister of Finance and significant Treasury involvement. So I am interested to know which of those tagged contingencies have been drawn down and by how much—that's question two.My third question talks back to consultants and contractors—areas that we've been concerned about—and asks: across the whole DHB sector how many consultants and contractors were there? Now we know that a review was done—I think Jim Green led it actually—afterwards around about October as I recall looking at how many contractors and consultants there were in this sector what they called the contingent workforce" but it only focused on those in the Ministry of Health. We're interested: how many consultants and contractors were there across the whole sector? And we know we've heard figures that maybe there's 200 PR people that the vast majority were in the Ministry of Health some in Health New Zealand now but just looking back beyond just the Ministry of Health would be useful. As far as we can tell from that review there were maybe a thousand in the contingent workforce but what is that total figure? That's question three.Question four asks whether the Minister will release the independent inquiry into Te Hiringa Hauora vaccination campaign "That's Us" that occurred on her watch and under her delegation that resulted in resignations and significant funds being put at risk. Now this was a vaccination campaign where there were allegations that by the time the campaign got under way the vaccination need of the target Māori audience had reduced substantially. And there were also allegations of conflict of interest of significant stakeholders inside Te Hiringa Hauora employing family and boyfriends/girlfriends of family and a range of other things. An inquiry was held and there was no accountability and no follow up to that inquiry. So my question to the Minister question four is: whether she will release the results of that independent inquiry. I think we can't just leave that out there and say "Oh a couple of million dollars it was all just whatever" when there are significant allegations to address.Question five is more specific and it was partly addressed on Q + A this Sunday but the Minister has said that there is no midwifery crisis in written parliamentary question 29465 (2022) and then went on to say when asked "Are midwifery services coping in the regions that have maternity and midwifery shortages?" "Yes."—29466. I wanted to reflect on that whether that is a correct statement over the period of time that we're looking at under this review. That's question five.Question six starts by asking: over the year did the wait-list for those waiting more than four months to see a first specialist increase or decrease? So the target and the promise for a first specialist assessment has been four months and it's a simple question: over the year in review did the first specialist assessment waiting list increase or decrease?Madam Chair I think I'll sit here. I have four other questions but I can see I'm coming to this point in time. So I might conclude here and hopefully come back for another session please."