Marcroft JennyJENNY MARCROFT (NZ First): Tēnā koe and thank you Madam Chair. It's my pleasure to stand and take a call on this appropriation review debate in health. I am very pleased to be a member of the Health Committee and I acknowledge the chair who spoke before the dinner hour and outlined all the organisations that came before the committee and engaged with the committee. I note that she mentioned the Canterbury District Health Board and the debt of gratitude to all of those who were involved on 15 March and the work they did at the front line taking care of all of those injured people. It was a tragedy that has reverberated across the country and around the world and I particularly note a debt of gratitude to all those from the district health board (DHB).I'd like to take my focus now to look at a DHB from my hometown that I grew up in—the Lakes District Health Board. Recently last year in fact they opened a new centre. It's called Te Aka Mauri. Rotorua Lakes Council's Te Kaitiaki Ahurei Māori—that's Monty Morrison from the well-known Morrison family—was at the opening of the centre called Te Aka Mauri; te aka meaning a vine or interconnection and Mauri meaning life force. Now the name reflects a shared vision to create a facility of excellence to advance community wellbeing and understanding. So I really want to focus on the amazing work that they are doing because I think it's really important to look at these models and how the community is shaping a new way of looking at health services in their particular community. So I acknowledge Lakes DHB for a couple of really great initiatives that they have undertaken.So the Rotorua Lakes Council alongside the Lakes DHB opened up Te Aka Mauri and basically they've created this hub where children can go. It has maternity services paediatric outpatient clinics a child development team and vision and hearing screening and it's actually centred in a refurbished library. Now anyone who goes to a library particularly if you take children to a library knows what a fun environment that is unless of course you've got overdue books. So inside the library it's this great environment and they're getting much more engagement with people coming in with their children and engaging in that health process. They're also open in the evenings when the library's open and this health hub can be also opened in the weekend. So it's been a great success because the attendance now is so much higher than it was when it was just a medical clinic. So this is a great relationship that they have developed between the council and the DHB and it's very very positive for their community.They're also running another programme called Tū Taua programme and this is around methamphetamine. We know that synthetics P and meth are a scourge on our society and so they're looking at ways of dealing with methamphetamine in the Lakes District and it's a programme that is by Māori for Māori and it's providing support. It's also providing counselling and helping to facilitate whānau support and they're having great success. But they are finding that it is a struggle. It's difficult to get figures. Not every user actually ends up in hospital so it's quite difficult to actually have consistent data on P on synthetics but certainly this Tū Taua programme is becoming quite a successful programme.The final thing I'd like to mention which was a theme which came across in many of the DHBs that came to the select committee is around immunisation. It was too for Lakes District. In their DHB there's been overall a decline in parents choosing to immunise their children and many DHBs actually said that there are actively declining numbers for this area. They suggested there could perhaps be a lot of difficulty in getting children of high mobility immunised—where they don't seem to have permanent homes. So this is something in the area that all these DHBs are actively involved in improving.I'd just like to finish off and make note of a great injection—$750 million has been injected into the health sector. This will be addressing this backlog of underfunding and I'm very proud to be a part of a Government which is ensuring we have good health and wellbeing in our community.