Bond RiaRIA BOND (NZ First): After listening to Minister Coleman's response—it motivated me to get back up and take another call. I do want to talk about the fact that I feel very lucky that I get to meet with many professionals within the healthcare sector. They tell me that they are desperately trying to work within the system and they tell me they simply do not have resources to deal with mental health.I want to pick up from where Barbara Kuriger talked about the Budget and I want to say that on 25 May the Government members crowed over how great this Budget was for mental health. We got told that there would be a spend of $224 million in mental health and it sounded like a pretty impressive number. It sounded like a pretty impressive Budget—that is until you actually went through the fine print of that Budget. What we know is that the Budget is going to be spent over a 4-year period so that means that each district health board (DHB) will get $56 million a year. The Government also announced that it is going to ring-fence $100 million into mental health yet again that is spread over 4 years. That is $25 million per year through DHBs.But what was actually quite glaringly obvious when the Government laid out this great Budget was that that $100 million was money that was already allocated to DHBs—already allocated to DHBs. So that Budget is going to force DHBs to try to find additional funding to actually fund mental health through the DHBs. I think it is no secret—DHBs are telling us themselves. They know that overall they are over $200 million short in this Budget.Mental health as I have said was given $100 million as part of the social investment budget and that is to target new initiatives. Again I looked at it and that is $25 million per year. That will boil down to community groups which will end up having to fight over $1 million per group so that they can try to find innovative ways to actually help alleviate the mental health crisis. Again—again—when I looked through that Budget and I pored over it it was a Budget that had big flashing numbers but really under-delivered to mental health. I think that we as a country know that this is a crisis. We know mental health is in crisis. What we want to see though is a Government that is more ambitious and ready to back itself.What I was disappointed about and what New Zealand First was actually disappointed about was the fact that the Minister of Health recently reduced the suicide targets. What was quite alarming was that members of our families members out there in the community are having to deal with suicide and the tragedy within their families and it is a shocking tragedy. We need to actually make sure that when we are dealing with suicide and trying to put funding around that we actually do it with I guess some backing—more backing than what we are seeing right now through this Budget.What I and New Zealand First were also disappointed about—because Dr Coleman did actually reduce the suicide rate by 20 percent over a 2-year period. He vetoed that target because he was too scared that it would make this Government look bad in an election year. What was evidential was that if we look at the number of people per year who could be saved by that target that is 12 people. That is 12 people per year whom that target equates to and that is 12 people too many.What I want to see is the Government actually setting some measures and goals so that we can see that things are actually working and policy is actually working. The last thing that members in this House want to see is this Budget and the appropriations that affect the lives out there in our communities—we actually want to see the Health Sector do better and we must do better as MPs in this House. We have to stop with the cosmetic coverage that this Government has been applying to funding when we are dealing with mental health.I want to just touch back a little bit again on the fact that when I listened to Mike King talk about mental health and youth suicide—yes we have the highest rate of youth suicide in the OECD and we have to actually do something about this. Something urgently needs to be done. It is no good that we just sit here and listen to the same rhetoric the same thing all the time saying that we have got a plan. That mental health strategy was not worth the paper that it was written on. I have gone through it and I have listened to people actually out there on the street asking me: Why can't they see what we're going through? Why can't they listen to us? Why can't they hear our voices when we are asking for help? Why can't the Government sit down around a table and put some common-sense policy around suicide prevention?".I think too New Zealand First has been calling for an urgent and independent review into mental health care. In the Health Committee the Minister of Health said that he did not think that that is actually needed and that he and his groups and his director-general were working through things and knew that things were not good at the moment and they were going to make it better. Well I can tell members of the public that this Budget is not going to do that.Vote agreed to."