Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Thank you very much Madam Chair. You know when a Minister's not very confident of his recent announcement when there is no patsy question at the next question time from the Government backbencher that highlights that announcement. Of course the Minister announced his primary care new front-line mental health service a service that was first published when they were in Opposition in 2017. It got delayed by the mental health inquiry in 2018 it was announced in Budget 2019 and now we find out in 2020 they're at the request for proposal stage and in 2021 there will be a roll-out—a partial roll-out—of another 100 sites.Now this is a front-line mental health service that will provide much needed psychological therapies in GP practices. We have 1400 GP practices in New Zealand. By the middle of 2021 this programme would have rolled out to less than 10 percent of those GP practices. It's currently delivered in 22 sites. I'd hazard a guess if I asked my colleague Shane Reti it probably was provided in those 22 sites before this announcement was even made by the Government—less than 2 percent of current GPs.This is in a time—I know we're talking about annual reviews—when we know it's hard not to be moved as a local MP by hearing the stories of hardship out there in response to COVID-19 and the upcoming economic downturn. We do know that mental health is going to be a big issue. GP Dr Baddock New Zealand Medical Association chair highlighted it last week in the Epidemic Response Committee. GPs are feeling the brunt of this wave of mental distress already and we have a Government that's caught on the back foot. If the Minister wants a flavour of what the DHB annual reviews were saying there were quite telling comments by DHB officials about this highfalutin $1.9 billion. I do hope the health Minister does tell his colleagues to make sure they don't slip into the trap that the Hon Stuart Nash did recently at a presentation I was at when he said $1.9 billion for mental health services because as the Minister knows it's not all for mental health services.But here we have the DHB representatives saying they couldn't point to where the money is exactly and they don't think the $1.9 billion hasn't flowed out yet. Why that is important in mental health is because DHBs control the funding. DHBs control the funding for the whole mental health sector and if they're telling us the money has not flowed out we're in trouble. We've got a huge wave of mental distress coming at us from COVID-19 and the upcoming economic downturn. In the last annual reviews the DHBs said they couldn't point to where the money is. I tell you why that's concerning; I'll give you one metric: child and adolescent mental health services. Under the former National Government wait times had remained static and were declining. In the last two years under this Government child and adolescent mental health services wait times have ballooned out 45 percent. In the last district health board annual review the one we're looking at now over 75 percent of DHBs reported longer waiting times. That's concerning.We have a Government that's raised huge expectations. This is not the level of service New Zealanders were promised in Budget 2019 for mental health. This annual review is the canary in the cage starting to sing and telling us the stories. Yes the Minister will talk about Piki pilot the Minister will talk about Mana Ake—great programmes; Mana Ake in the Canterbury District Health Board and Piki pilot up here in Wellington—but that's one district. We have 16 districts. They've rolled out those programmes to one region in New Zealand 15 more to go. So they're the questions for the Minister: why is he putting figures out there but the people on the ground are saying they haven't seen the funding?