Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): Yes we are having a debate this afternoon because there has been an error made at the Ministry of Health. It is an unacceptable error and the Director-General of Health has fixed it. He has also gone to Deloitte to have a look and determine how this error was made. It was a mistake—it was a technical error—and I am not going to say it was minor. I really feel for the health boards that have had their funding changed but we have heard today that it is appropriation. It is not money that is currently in their budget; it is money for their budgets going forward. So it is disappointing that it has happened but it is a technical error and investigations are going on to see how that error happened so that we can ensure that it never happens again.Just a reminder to those on the other side of the House: despite this error all district health boards (DHBs) did receive an increase in their funding under the 2017 Budget and they are all finalising their annual plans at the moment to fit that Budget.So $439 million extra has gone into health and it is amazing actually to see some of the things that are being developed on the health front. If we think about things in terms of surgeries there have been an extra 50000 elective surgeries but there are also a whole lot of other changes in health. We have had a bit of a discussion today about various people around mental health. Well actually mental health is not the responsibility of only the Ministry of Health.When I think about children at school and when I think about those in the community I also think of Fieldays. I have just been to Mystery Creek Fieldays and I think one of the highlights of Mystery Creek Fieldays is that there has been for the first time in our rural communities a health hub where people have been able to come in. They have been able to talk about dentistry they have been able to talk about breast cancer prostate cancer wellness—we are talking about a whole range of things that were in this health hub and I have to say that the health hub was the highlight of the Fielday. If we do not look at doing things slightly differently in our rural areas—[Interruption] Maybe some of you do not have any idea how far some people in our rural electorates have to travel to get to health services.I think it is great that we take advantage of Fieldays and every opportunity that we possibly can. At the last three Mystery Creek Fieldays we heard that there has been a total of $1.6 million going into rural mental health. So this year saw another $500000 being promised to mental health and I think it is really important because we had a reference before about mental health needs increasing in our rural communities. But maybe there also has not been an awareness—although I thought it should have been obvious—that we have had a dairy downturn and we have had people under severe severe pressure financially and in a whole range of different ways.I am very proud of our rural support trusts and the way they use the funding and the way they have dealt with people during this whole process. So you know we can keep doing things in a certain way but actually there is a whole range of people who can get involved in mental health and make a difference. I can tell you that the suicide rate in the rural areas—even despite the dairy downturn—has been less at the $4 payout than it was at the $8.50 payout so I am really impressed with what some people have done.You know it really does highlight the facts around social investment. It is not just the Ministry of Health; it is a whole range of other people who are getting out there. We also have 6900 more doctors and nurses in our hospitals and 552423 patients received a medical or first specialist assessment in 2016. So we are making progress in health.We are here today and we are focusing on something that has been an unfortunate error. I think we have actually got to find out what did go wrong and we need to make sure that it does not happen again. It is important that we study how it happens. We can talk about the complications of the funding model and yes it is a complicated funding model but we have to get it right. So that is no excuse and Deloitte is going to spend its time putting effort into finding out what went wrong to make sure that it does not happen again. Thank you.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed.