Verrall Ayesha; McKelvie IanHon Dr AYESHA VERRALL (Minister for Food Safety): Time for some health advice for the member across the other side and a reminder that this Government is projected to return to zero net debt much earlier than the last Government did during the global financial crisis—that this balanced Budget that Minister Robertson does provide support for the here and now but also makes sure we carefully keep our future options open.One of the things that's really important about Budget 2022 is it provides us with economic security against these offshore shocks that we've heard about—the war in Ukraine and also supply chain challenges. It is also a landmark Budget for health. That's fitting because our health system is a source of security. As we've seen it's protected us during the pandemic and as we know it always has mitigated the catastrophic effects of illness—and also for so many of us it protects our future opportunities. Budget 2022 includes a record ongoing annual funding boost for Health New Zealand—formerly our DHBs—$1.8 billion in year one an additional $1.3 billion in year two. Thank goodness! It will end decades of an underfunded and fragmented DHB system. And I can tell you from being a member of a DHB board in this region that DHB deficits stifled our ability to do anything different. We couldn't innovate. We couldn't undertake service improvement because everything had to be diverted to keeping the lights on.For the first time ever Budget 2022 creates funding certainty for two years for the health system and these longer-term funding plans allow us to address some of the things that have been in the too-hard basket for the health system for far too long—our inability to invest in proper health information technology for example. It also means that for hospitals the health system can move off the one-year funding system that meant they were never able to get ahead. We're investing more in primary care mental health and in Māori health. In particular we're investing more in public health through the creation of the Public Health Agency and the National Public Health Service collectively assigned $61 million in this Budget. We should never again be in the situation where we have to scramble to stitch back together 12 different public health units so that we can respond to a pandemic. We're also making sure that information can be shared at speed in this new health system through a $10 million investment in public health IT. We're investing in a world-class health workforce that have kept us safe during COVID-19.Let's look at some of the headline investments for health. In Pharmac we have more than a single biggest ever increase for the Pharmac an extra $191 million over two years. And immediately we've had Pharmac consider increased spending on blood cancer drugs multiple sclerosis HIV hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer drugs. In primary care $102 million to grow primary healthcare teams so they can identify and treat issues earlier. We want to prevent small issues going on to be big ones that mean you have to come to hospital. Already this Government has created 3000 more fulltime-equivalent nursing positions over recent Budgets and those doctors and nurses will be on the top of our immigration green list to allow us to recruit from overseas. In this Budget we're investing $76 million to strengthen our health workforce including 1500 more training places in primary care. That's nurses physiotherapists pharmacists and 1000 more training places for the whole hauora Māori workforce. We're also investing in 48 additional ambulances 13 vehicles for our ambulance fleet and 248 more paramedics. These are the essential services that Budget 2022 is supporting.I want to mention some specific issues that I've worked on that are close to my heart. I am particularly pleased that this Budget included investment to support people with dementia to have early intervention and to provide respite to their carers. I also am pleased that we are making sure we're continuing the Nurse-Family Partnership programme to improve some of our families with the biggest challenges and the early care that children and those families receive.Also there are people who have not often been well served and included in our health system and I'm thinking specifically of intersex and trans people whose human rights we will uphold much better in our health system through dedicated work around promoting informed consent gender affirming care and guidelines. I am very proud to see Budget 2022 secure our future.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ian McKelvie): I call Angie Warren-Clark hiding behind the screen.