Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. I want to start by giving the House a challenge and then at the end of my speech I'd like to come back and see who's got the answer. So we have a health Minister who's trumpeting the success of his new front-line mental health service and fair enough—it's a good service. The mental health inquiry said quite clearly we need to support the mild to moderate for mental wellbeing and illness issues. But we have a Minister who's trumpeting success when he clearly outlines that he's employed 870 fulltime-equivalents who are delivering 20000 sessions a month. Someone go away and put that in your computer or your calculator and I'll come back at the end of my speech and we'll work out how many sessions those workers are delivering a day—870 workers at 20000 a month.What we had last week is an absolute damning report into this Government's performance in mental health. We had the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission the independent watchdog saying that despite the announcement of $1.9 billion into mental health there was no improvement materialised. No access has increased. Waiting lists have got worse. Shortages in the workforce have got worse. So you've got to ask the question: where has the money gone? Why is it not making a difference? Why is it harder to access a mental health service today than it was five years ago when this Government came into office? Where has the money gone?What's really concerning today—in the Health Committee when we moved a motion just to ask for a briefing from the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission on this report it was blocked by the Labour MPs. What do they fear? What do they have to hide?SPEAKER: Order! Order!MATT DOOCEY: Why can we not ask the questions about why the authors of that report came to the conclusions that they did?Let's be clear: this Labour Government initiated an inquiry that led to the recommendation of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission being established. They've just passed legislation through the House to set up the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. Yet its first report they block a briefing of it in the select committee. How does that add up?Of course it's important to have this independent report because the last two reports we had—let's be frank: the first one was from the Ministry of Health and Official Information Act documents revealed that the bureaucrats were running a risk lens over negative data as to not embarrass the Government around mental health performance. Then we had the absolute failure in mental health facilities. Andrew Little announces an independent review and it gets kicked off to Grant Robertson's implementation committee. He came out and said Nothing to see here. All good progress." Yet out of those 13 mental health facilities announced over three years ago not one of them has a shovel in the ground. How is that good progress?The first time we get an independent report produced by the Government's own inquiry recommendation of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission and the Labour MPs in the Health Committee block a briefing—a briefing on an independent report. They will have to answer to that. Why are they stopping us asking the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission some questions? In fact what was interesting—some of the comments were "Oh well it's public now so why do we need to ask a question?"I know what questions we need to ask. Where is the $1.9 billion announced for mental health? I'll tell you what—out of that report parents and mental health professionals will feel listened to because what they saw in that report is what they've been asking the Government and getting no response. As I go round the country: time and time again mental health groups and services tell me they haven't seen any of the $1.9 billion for mental health. They can't point to where it's gone. This Government needs to front up and answer the questions of why they've failed in mental health."