Kuriger BarbaraBARBARA KURIGER (National—Taranaki - King Country): Thank you Mr Speaker. I too would like to acknowledge the formation of the cross-party group in Parliament in support of forming the commission that's the subject of this bill. When Matt Doocey got up and spoke before he stated that there's been an estimate that mental health is around 50 years behind physical health for us as a society and somehow it almost feels like it's worse than that. So 50 years ago when we were growing up mental health was something that wasn't talked about. In fact it was probably worse than that. Tokanui is in my electorate. Everyone knew where it was. They knew what it was. It was one of those places that you know—the people that went there were different to the rest of us. But now we know in this day and age the people that went there weren't different to the rest of us; they were part of us. Unfortunately in that time we had no more knowledge to deal with mental health and the way it was operated at that time.My first real experience of mental health came in 1995 when my sister lost her husband through suicide and my two young nephews who were three and 18 months old were left without their dad. At that time that was really hard because it was something that always happened to somebody else's family. Until it happened to your own family it's not something that you ever think is going to happen to your family. So you know it's one of those realisations I think now in a society that—I'm really pleased that we've come to accept that one in four or five of us is going to experience this and we need to support each other on the way through it. I support what John Kirwan has asked—not to put the politics into mental health—because there's nothing about politics that belongs in mental health. One of the things that I would like to encourage—I've done a lot of work over the years and particularly in the last five years of being an MP with organisations like the Rural Support Trust with organisations like Farmstrong. I even got on my bike and biked 60 kilometres down in Southland one year and that rural support trust in Taranaki raised about $200000 for mental health in the area. So what I see this commission as doing and what I hope is going to be successful is that all of those organisations that are out in our community that are currently doing good work actually gather up those organisations and see how we can support those people to do the work they are doing. The more work the people at the community level can do the less work we're going to need further down the track. If we can actually encourage people as friends neighbours and support trusts to ask for help to look for help—and you know often when there's a drought or a downturn or something in farming it's often when someone goes along with a plate of scones and has a shared meeting and gives people a cup of coffee that encourages them to talk about it. It's very easy for farmers to sink into a space in a drought or in a bad time and think it's them that's doing something wrong when actually the whole community is experiencing the same thing. So it's about communities getting together. It's about sharing. So you know my hope is that we will round up all those organisations and we will support them as much as we possibly can. I think it's really important now that the health foundation has picked up the funding to put data points together for rural health and for rural communities. So given that it is not going to be until 2021 that this commission will be formally and properly established so that it's up and running the onus must now be on urgently helping and delivering some of these front-line and community services. So I would urge the Government in the short term because we're already two years behind the eight ball after you know having the working party and going through this process—there's a lot of things that we could have been doing in the meantime. So there's some urgency to support some of these things while we're waiting for the commission to be up and running. You know I look in our communities. There's a whole lot of things. I've got 85 primary schools in my electorate and people talk about telehealth. Telehealth on its own is not a—you know I don't want people having to go on Google and do their own stuff online completely. It's a tool and I was with the RuralFest last week and we talked about it being a tool but actually having community and health professionals behind those people—there's lots of facilities where we're able to undertake that. So this is not about more buildings. This is about more community stuff more people helping each other. I look forward to this as we work forward and I have great pleasure in commending this bill to the House. Thank you.