Doocey MattHon MATT DOOCEY (Minister for Mental Health): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. Look it's a real privilege to rise as the proud member of Parliament for Waimakariri. I've been in this role 10 years now and I don't take that responsibility lightly. So that's why it's so good to be part of a coalition Government that will deliver the Woodend Bypass. We'll start construction at our first term. That Labour Government came in in 2017 and cancelled the former National Government's commitment to the Woodend Bypass and it's brilliant to be part of a coalition Government that will reinstate that commitment and start construction in its first term.It's also a privilege to be New Zealand's first mental health Minister. In my first announcement we talked about rolling out peer-support lived-experience workers in emergency departments. That was a service we can roll out by delivering uncommitted funds in the Vote Health budget. Then with Gumboot Friday we announced through a coalition agreement in Budget 2024 we're going to fund I Am Hope Foundation $24 million—$6 million a year over four years—that will deliver much-needed mental health counselling services to young people aged five to 25. That service will connect mental health professionals to young people in less than one week.What we know is we're facing increased demand for our mental health services specifically with our young people and this investment announcement will go a long way to ensure our young people get the timely mental health and addiction support they need. So when the Labour Opposition wants to attack that announcement—focus on the contracting even though we've said it's compliant with Government procurement rules—what they're trying to deflect from is the Auditor-General report that came out last month that said even despite the $1.9 billion wait times for specialist mental health services for young people had grown in the last six years. Only that Government could spend that amount of money for waiting times to go up. The Auditor-General also said he could not identify any value for money for taxpayers out of that funding announcement by that last Labour Government.Then we had the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission that said despite the announcement of $1.9 billion—that to be frank most New Zealanders are still looking for—it made no material improvement. What we've got is a Government now that's been very clear that we will save money in the back office of the public services and focus that on the front line. We'll get money out of the Beehive to grassroots organisations who are already delivering so they can scale up and respond to the need. That's why it was brilliant to stand with the coalition Government the Deputy Prime Minister to announce $24 million that will provide support to an extra 15000 young people a year who need that valuable support.It was also a privilege to stand with the Prime Minister and the transport Minister Simeon Brown to announce $63 million towards Coastguard and Surf Life Saving—$19 million for Coastguard $44 million for Surf Life Saving. Our New Zealand search and rescue delivers thousands of life-saving rescues every year directly attributable last year to saving 161 lives. We got that money from the back office and we've put it into the front line so many New Zealanders when they go to the beach when they go on the water they can feel safer.That's what you've got in this coalition Government Mr Speaker: a Government that is very prepared to get into the back office to save some money; get it to the front line. That's what we'll find with Budget 2024. We've got one more sleep to go. What you're going to see is a Budget 2024 that will prioritise investment into public services. It will deliver personal tax reduction and deliver savings to get this country's books back on track; a Government that I'm proud to be part of that will invest more into front-line services.