Woodhouse MichaelHon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. The House can lock itself in for another hour of crucial filibustering by the Government members. Even the Minister David Clark—even the Minister—moving the third reading speech read it as slowly as he possibly could so we crawled to the line that 10-minute finish line and here's why: the Government Order Paper is about as skinny as I've seen it in my 11 years in Parliament. By the end of tonight there may be as few as 17 items of business on this Order Paper and half of them can't be put through—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): Great for a general debate this afternoon but we're on this bill.Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: —because they don't have the support—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): No. Order! The member will come to the bill.Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE: Well I will shorten this speech by saying this: I agree with nearly everything the Minister has said. The National Party will continue to support this bill through to its passage into law with serious caveats but they have been articulated by Dr Clark. It is a big thing to suspend democracy. It is true. We have been there. We had to do this in 2015 and then pass laws in 2016 to suspend the last elections for the Southern District Health Board (DHB).Now the Minister talks about both clinical and financial performance. Indeed in my experience in running health facilities those two things go hand in hand; clinical and financial viability go up and down on the same rising and falling tide. There hasn't been a case where a commissioner or a Crown monitor has been appointed to a DHB where there has been good financial performance and poor clinical performance or really good clinical performance and poor financial performance—they go hand in hand. I mention this because I look to the sea of red ink the rising tide of red ink right across our DHB sector and I say this: Who is next?" Frankly the availability of the data has been woeful under this Minister for what the combined financial performance of district health boards has been. The only data we have is March—we should have had April and May by now—and at that point the projection for Waikato was a $62 million deficit. Even the Southern District Health Board as they come out of the commissioner role and have their elections have seriously deteriorated in the last 12 months where they're now projecting $34 million as at March. Well we know from this morning's news that the Nelson District Health Board who at that same point was predicting a $1 million surplus has actually advised the people of Nelson-Marlborough that they will return an $11 million deficit—a $12 million turn-around in three months.The Minister blames the previous Government. Well nobody but the most leftist Labour-supporting trolls on my Facebook page actually believes that. The rest of the country knows that things were tight as they often are but they have plunged and plummeted under this Minister. So my question as we pass this into law is: "Who's next?" Will it be Southern DHB again? Will it be Counties Manukau? Will it be Canterbury who as at March were forecasting $103 million? Canterbury and West Coast between the two of them have the same combined financial deficits as all 20 DHBs had under the last year of the previous Government. Just those two—and neither of those two are under commissioner rule so they would be very nervous. We're going into elections who would stand? There are Companies Act obligations on DHB members as directors of these very large organisations for fiscal propriety and they are being handed mathematical alchemy by this Government and this Minister. It's pretty simple; you don't have to be an accountant to work out that if you are going to require the DHBs to settle pay agreements at 10 percent per year 16 percent over two years 20 percent over three years and then give them 4.2 percent for population growth and cost pressures it's mathematical alchemy because it can't work and that plunges them into deficit.Let them blame the previous Government for nine years of neglect because nobody—nobody—who isn't an extreme leftist troll believes it. So I challenge the Minister to fix the mess he's made at Waikato to fix the mess he's making at Counties Manukau. Auckland are now saying they're going to be in deficit but won't say by how much—my prediction of $500 million is probably now going to be conservative.So we support this bill but we don't support a Minister and a Government that is presiding over a DHB sector that is drifting and needs better leadership."