Woodhouse MichaelHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. Before I start on the Government's year of delivery in health I want to talk a little bit about the delivery of a certain trophy this week and that is the homecoming of the Parliamentary Rugby World Cup won by the New Zealand Parliamentary Rugby Team of which I was a member in a dramatic extra-time victory over Australia who were the holders at the Tokyo Olympic Park last Thursday. Now that park happens to be—SPEAKER: It was never that close when I played.Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: Well the Speaker could come back. There's always room. That park was actually the place where Peter Snell won two gold medals in 1964. It was a particularly auspicious place in which to play that final. But I want to congratulate all of the members of that touring team. It came at some cost—[Removes spectacles]—as members can see but it was certainly worth it.But I want to talk about—Hon Tim Macindoe: You're all shiny.Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: Ha very shiny—delivery in health because here is the biggest thing the health Minister and the Government has delivered for health: a measles epidemic—a measles epidemic the likes of which this country has not seen in generations. We were on the brink of being considered measles-free and suddenly we are now amongst those countries for which measles is endemic. But they didn't deliver one thing. They didn't deliver nearly enough vaccines. My colleagues have been on the phone to the GP practices in their parts of the country and the feedback has been almost universal: there are simply no vaccines in the practices in order to be able to immunise the people who are most at risk.The Associate Minister of Health Julie Anne Genter said in question time that her expectations are that schools shouldn't be standing down pupils. But we know—because we asked schools we listen to the community—that's exactly what they're doing. Now there's a two-week school holiday coming and that's going to potentially give a break. But it better break the epidemic because after the school holidays come exams where students will be in their hundreds in gymnasiums and halls across the country at great risk of sharing that epidemic. A fantastic delivery I think not from this Government.And actually it's consistent because they delivered us a meningitis epidemic as well and then did not buy enough vaccines—so that 5- to 12-year-old kids at risk in Northland were not given vaccines.Hon Tim Macindoe: What did they learn from that?Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: They learnt absolutely nothing Mr Macindoe.And here is a very very big thing that they've delivered: they've delivered more than $500 million in combined DHB deficits. They've overseen a terrible financial situation and all the Minister can say is that speech he gives every time I ask him a question: Nine years of neglect." Well he criticised the previous Minister of Health when those deficits went to $90 million saying he should fix it. Well I suggest that the Minister take his own advice—he should fix it.The other thing we've had in delivery in health is the worst industrial landscape in 40 years—more industrial unrest not only in health but right across the country than we have seen in 40 years—compared with a benign industrial landscape where wages went up at twice the rate of inflation and there were nearly no strikes in healthcare. But they haven't delivered for independent midwives. They haven't delivered on their promise to reduce GP visits by $10 for absolutely every single New Zealander which they proudly announced on the campaign trail and then promptly broke that promise. More broken promises.They've been good at delivering reports though. A huge mental health and addiction report—necessary appropriate and to some degree appropriated. And what did they do with it? They went back on the road to discuss it even more. It's not talk that this country needs on mental health; it's actions. We understand that. We had $100 million 17 initiatives ready to go and they cancelled it. The biggest report of all though—a 312-page $9.5 million review of the health sector and guess how many recommendations it had? Zero. They delivered not one recommendation on what they're going to do. Within the report there was a very good synopsis of what we already knew—a good system that could be much better—and not a single recommendation was delivered by a 312-page report. This Minister is asleep at the wheel. He's delivered nothing but disease and drift and he needs to fix it."