Doocey Matt; Rurawhe AdrianMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Oh thank you very much Mr Speaker. I rise to take my call and follow on from that last speaker to talk about the issue of mental health. In fact it wasn't that long ago that this Government used to use words like transformational" and "transforming mental health" but interestingly enough with all the firestorm of last week and the sexual assault allegations what got hidden amongst that? Well the announcement of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. Why would you release it that week? I can tell you why: because it's taken them two years to announce something for the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. The commission is something that is not only Labour's but of course it was a key plank of New Zealand First for their election manifesto in 2017. Here we are two years into Government and they announce their Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. What's the detail around this commission? It's going to be set up in two years' time: 2021. Yes there's an interim one in place but I would argue that 2021 would be four years in. This is a Government that made mental health a key election issue. They were going to focus on it make it transformational and transform and here they have a Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission that's going to take them four years to set up.It speaks volumes of the problem with the Labour Government because what Labour Governments do is they come in and they throw money at things but they have no detail on mental health and they have no plan. Yes they announced a huge amount of money—$1.9 billion—but funnily enough when I asked the Minister how you would break that down $200 million of it goes into Housing First—potentially there might be some crossover with mental health there. Three hundred million is going into transitional housing—I think you can start to sense a theme that's taking course here—$70 million into the establishment of the royal commission into historical abuse and $100 million into resolving claims of historical abuse. Now I'm not here to say that any of those announcements are not valid but my point being when you reiterate $1.9 billion the public believes you are spending that in mental health services and you're not. Already of those amounts I outlined around $700 million of that $1.9 billion is not going towards front-line mental health services. Now we in the Opposition want to support the Government on mental health—we've joined the cross-party mental health group—but our bottom line is that anything we do in mental health needs to provide more front-line mental health services to respond to the growing demand. What does this Government do a few weeks ago for their new front-line mental health service? The first announcement is $9 million. To new services? No; $9 million to cover the cost of existing mental health services and GPs. There'll be no new services delivered with that $9 million. This is the problem: talking big on numbers but in fact no detail and no plan. Now the health Minister is saying "Oh hold on though. We're thinking it might take four or five years to roll out." This is the problem: delay after delay. We had a $6.5 million inquiry that they kicked the can down the road. They delayed the report and then here we get all this money. What was interesting is that out of all the Budget lines for this $1.9 billion—I went back and checked because of course in 2017 the former National Government announced $100 million for 17 mental health initiatives. How many of them reappeared in Budget 2019? Thirteen out of 17. So they came in they cancelled 17 initiatives and relaunched them two years later. They're initiatives and projects that could be making a real difference on the ground today to vulnerable New Zealanders. That's the problem with a Labour Government. They come in they announce a lot of money they throw a lot of money at issues but let's never forget the State of the Nation Report in the last Labour Government in their last year that said that for all their increased expenditure they did not increase social progress by 1 percent. It's clear this Government has no detail on mental health and has no plan.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): Order. The member's time has expired."