Clark DavidHon Dr DAVID CLARK (Minister of Health): It's a pleasure to speak to the health part of this process. I'll make a few brief comments at the outset as I've observed my colleague do and then focus on answering the questions from the Opposition. I think this format in my observation for the House is working well.The Government is focused on rebuilding a health system to ensure New Zealanders can access the services that they need and deserve. I'm very proud of our health services right now and in particular at the outset of my few comments I want to thank the doctors nurses and allied health workers who have been at the forefront of our COVID-19 response as a country. They have stepped into new ways of working they have stepped up and they have supported a response which I think as a country we can be very proud of. Going hard and going early has put us in a good position and what we're doing is working and I think the numbers speak for themselves. Now is of course the time to lock in the gains that we've made and not allow the virus to bounce back. But their success and our success as a country has been built on the back of the incredible efforts of what has been a long-stretched health workforce and the incredible response of all New Zealanders.As a Government as I said at the outset we've been focused on rebuilding our health services and we know that they have been challenged. A symptom of that has been the deficits in the DHB sector since 2013 when many of the balance sheets became so stretched in our health system. Our first two Budgets made the biggest ever investments in our DHBs—$2.8 billion in the last one—and also significant record investments in capital spending to rebuild those hospital buildings to increase capacity and make them fit for purpose including addressing issues like sewage in walls of buildings and buildings that were just past their use-by date in our mental health services.On top of that in our last Budget we put a $1.9 billion investment into taking mental health seriously—an unprecedented investment in mental health services. As a country we have not previously provided services for folks struggling with mild to moderate mental health challenges and now we are proposing to roll out and are rolling out a programme that makes those services free to access.All of those things have been occurring within the frame of the last year and before that even we were rolling out of course the Piki programme for mental health services to young people; the Mana Ake programme that 5000 kids in Canterbury and Kaikōura have accessed in response to the quakes; and nurses in schools. More recently in the time of the COVID lockdown programmes that support people in self-isolation—the Mentemia programme developed by Sir John Kirwan being rolled out; the Melon programme developed by the Piki folk; and also the Wise Group's Staying on Track resources—were all launched during the lockdown period to help people wrestling with the challenges of self-isolation and the unusual times that we're in. And of course All Right and the Sparklers programmes were also developed for COVID response across the country. So I want to thank all of the people involved in those mental health responses in particular that build on that unprecedented investment that the Government made last Budget of $1.9 billion into mental health.I want to leave my opening contribution there because I do want to leave time to focus on the questions that the Opposition will put.