Bond RiaRIA BOND (NZ First): Again when you come down to the Chamber you come with a lot of notes that you just actually want to talk to on this specific subject. But following on from the member Julie Anne Genter I was actually quite horrified to sit here and listen to the Minister of Health bag David Clark bag the Labour Party and not actually address the problem that is out there in New Zealand.The GPs have been telling that Minister that they have been short of funding. They are so fed up with the way the Minister has been arrogant in not listening to them that they launched a campaign yesterday which I am assuming the Minister received and it was a postcard launch. It was to actually itemise out how GPs are suffering around this country: how GPs cannot get a toilet break after working a solid 10 hours; how GPs go out to car accidents watch someone die come right back to their surgery and have to do paperwork—paperwork—because of the bureaucratic rubbish that they have got to put up with; how GPs are so exhausted so fatigued and they get no help themselves; and how GPs cannot actually see children because they have got too many patients and a lack of actual GPs filling in for them. That is a real problem. And to sit here and listen to the Minister bark on about David Clark for 4 minutes was shocking. I would have thought the Minister would have been a bit more responsible and answered some of the clear questions that members in our communities are asking us. You can sit there and pull a face Dr Coleman—I do not care.What I want to address is actually the district health boards (DHBs). We know that our DHBs have been massively underfunded. We know—for instance in Southland just recently—that our waiting list for elective eye surgery caused partial blinding and blinding to 38 patients across Southland and Dunedin and that is an absolute issue. I know for a fact that just last month Dunedin Hospital actually had to bring in specialists and it saw over 114 patients in 1 day. Some of these people had to actually sit on the floor because they had to wait for their treatment. Elderly people were sitting on the floor at that hospital because the hospital was so overwhelmed. If our hospitals were not massively underfunded then why did it take Minister Coleman and the DHB to bring in specialists for 1 day to try to clear the backlog? I think that is pretty telling in itself—that we do not have enough funding in our healthcare system. Dr Coleman can still continue to pull faces—that is fine.I want to say too that just a fortnight ago at Southland Hospital we had more than 10 patients who actually had to wait overnight at the hospital because there were no beds—there were no beds because the hospital was filled to full capacity. I am saying that the Southern DHB had over 100 percent capacity in that hospital and that is shocking. That is absolutely unacceptable.I also want to talk about the fact that the New Zealand Nurses Organisation has actually sent open letters to the Minister of Health telling him that it does not have enough funding telling him that its graduate nurses are not actually getting positions because working-visa nurses from overseas are actually taking their jobs. Those graduates have been so loyal to their sector and they are finding it really hard that they cannot get a job and that is a shock. That is shocking. That tells me also that the Minister does not care. He simply does not care that the students and graduates are actually being overlooked by DHBs and foreigners can come in and take their jobs. That is a problem and that needs to be addressed.I also want to talk about the fact that nurses do not get time to have breaks. They do not get time to have breaks. What they are worried about is actually that the fatigue they are finding is going to impact on patient care. We are seeing that in our communities. We are seeing that out on the street and when they come into our offices we are actually seeing in their distraught nature that the nurses are suffering at the moment because of the lack of funding.I want to talk too about the fact that there is an issue around mental health that we have all said is a crisis and this Government refuses to admit that. I actually want to talk about the fact that we have the highest suicide rate in the OECD. No one in this House—not one member—should actually think that we should be very proud of that statistic at all. We need to urgently inject the sector with some money. We need to make sure that we are actually giving our nurses and our doctors in mental health enough adequate funding to make sure that they can actually do the job that we need them to do. I think it is a sad day—it is a sad day—when we get mums bringing their children into our offices who have got depression and who actually want to take their lives and they cannot get access. I actually listened to Mike King when he said—and it is true because people are coming and telling us this—they have to actually basically try to commit suicide right at that front door before it is accepted that they have an issue. That is actually a damning indictment on a Government that has ignored the facts and ignored the statistics. I think it is a shocking Budget and New Zealand First will definitely not be supporting the Estimates.