Dean Jacqui; Mallard TrevorHon JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki): It's always a pleasure to follow a contribution by Ron Mark. It certainly makes us look good in contrast. I have got a question for the New Zealand First - Labour Government and that is: why are they walking away from the regions? Why are New Zealand First and Labour walking away from the lower South Island of New Zealand? Why is it that they are walking away from the Lumsden Maternity Centre? Why is it that they are failing in their obligations with the Otago Rescue Helicopter Trust? Why is it that they are walking away from their obligations with West Otago Health Ltd? And most critical and most important as far as I'm concerned why are they not supporting the Roxburgh health camp?Let me tell you a little bit about the Roxburgh health camp. It is the one residential wraparound facility for children who have suffered trauma in their lives and their families in the whole of the lower half of the South Island. We have huge distances to cover in the lower half of the South Island. We do have social problems. We have vulnerable children and now Roxburgh health camp just yesterday has failed in its funding application with this Government and is being forced to close its doors. There have been many many angry people in the lower half of the South Island.I visited Roxburgh health camp just recently. They cannot believe—they cannot believe—they're going to lose this residential service. The local mayors cannot believe that this Government New Zealand First and Labour are walking away from the vulnerable families in the lower half of the South Island. What happened to their promises? What happened to the promise of the Labour and New Zealand First Government to look after those vulnerable children in their society? They have broken that promise. I made a personal representation to Tracey Martin. She put up her hands and said It'll be all right it'll be all right—there'll still be services." It won't be all right Minister—it will not be all right.It's ironic to see that the Government has announced almost $2 million just yesterday for the Growing Up in New Zealand study—a study. This Government—Carmel Sepuloni—has put up $2 million for a study. Well I'll you how much Roxburgh needs: they need $3 million to support vulnerable children. Carmel Sepuloni goes on to say "This Government wants New Zealand to be the best place in the world to be a child. Hearing the voice of children will be a powerful contribution to Government policy makers' and service providers' understanding of how to best meet the needs of diverse New Zealand families and children."Well I'll tell you what I'll give you the voice of the child. I'll give you the voice of the eight-year-old little girl who stood up at a public meeting in Roxburgh and said this—and I quote—"This is my second time at Roxburgh. It has changed my life because I've had a lot of hard times where I haven't been able to talk about stuff." and then she pauses and says "Yeah talk about stuff … It's just changed how I can talk about how I'm feeling and it's just changed my life. It's helped my mum it's helped my dad and my annoying little brother"—she got a laugh for that comment—"and I really want to say I really want it to stay because it's like the only thing that helped."So Carmel Sepuloni the Hon Tracey Martin and Minister of Education Chris Hipkins—who's been very very quiet over this issue—this is my message to you: you have broken your promise to the people of Roxburgh to look after vulnerable children. You have broken your promise to the people of the lower South Island to look after vulnerable children—shame shame shame on you. Shame on you on behalf of that little eight-year-old girl and all the other children that have crossed the threshold of the Roxburgh health camp over the last 60 years and who have come out of that residential facility where life is just a little bit better. Surely that—surely that—is worth supporting by this Government.I leave you with a Tremain cartoon in the Otago Daily Times which says "The talk the walk"—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."