Willis ScottSCOTT WILLIS (Green): Thank you Mr Speaker. I'm proud to be from the South because we're a very hardy lot. Members may have heard the story of Binn Wharton who is an injured fisherman. He gave up waiting for medical help after seven hours at Southland Hospital's emergency department in April. An off-duty nurse cleaned his wound the next day but he had to return to the Southland emergency department with a suspected bloodstream infection. He had a really bad fever he had nausea he had swelling—it was getting really risky. A patient advocate then tried to get him after-hours care calling between 15 and 17 GPs but none were available. There's no after-hours service in Invercargill and he had to return to the emergency department. Another GP service in Invercargill has just closed its doors because it couldn't get the staff. So if you live in Invercargill if you haven't got a GP now then you're simply out of luck for healthcare. We're a hardy lot in the deep South but it's clear that health is a postcode lottery so I want to hear about our chances of hitting the jackpot in this year's Budget. We've got an ageing population rural communities spread out and a shared local ambition to have health services and infrastructure to provide for the deep South. What we're experiencing in the deep South is a harbinger of the wider health crisis that we've already heard about. I'm not just talking about the disastrous repeal of the smoke-free legislation; I'm talking about the failure to adequately fund GP services. Our accident and emergency departments are already overrun. They deal with emergencies as a priority. Anything less than an emergency should be dealt with by a GP or after hours but a failure to adequately fund GP services means that they are just not available. Is this gap going to be funded?I'm talking about health infrastructure—Shanan Halbert: Not in North Shore.SCOTT WILLIS: —specifically health infrastructure in the deep South. Yes we've got it in the North Shore. We're waiting for it in the deep South. National talked so big in 2023 about its promise to build the Dunedin Hospital so needed by the deep South. Since forming the Government however National and this Government seem happy to renege on their promise to Dunedin and the South. I have asked repeatedly whether this Government will honour its promise to fully fund the Dunedin Hospital and deliver for the deep South. Dr Shane Reti promised to deliver all the beds operating theatres and radiology services that Labour removed in 2023 and each time I have asked questions of this Government about funding I've been brushed off. I've been brushed off on every question about funding the Dunedin Hospital yet as Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand's briefing to the Minister in December last year said completion of the inpatient building in 2029 as planned is reliant on additional funding. Dunedin Hospital is a regional tertiary hospital. It serves a large region—the deep South a region this Government seems happy to ignore. Instead of ignoring the deep South the Government should ensure that along with funding health services the teaching and education needs of the medical nursing and allied professionals are included rather than expecting other financially constrained institutions like the Otago University to contribute.When can we expect a signal that this Government cares about the deep South? When will the promise to provide the Dunedin Hospital that the South so desperately needs be honoured? These are the questions that we want to hear from the Government. When will this Government actually show it cares for the deep South? Kia ora.