Swarbrick ChlöeCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green—Auckland Central): E te Māngai tēnā koe. Tēnā koutou e te Whare. The Greens will be supporting this bill through the House tonight and through select committee and encourage members of the public to have their say at that select committee stage. I just wanted to acknowledge the member Katie Nimon for taking it on board: congrats it's not often that you get your first bill in front of the House in the first few months. But I also wanted to acknowledge and appreciate my colleague the Hon Matt Doocey for the mahi that we've done over the last six years in establishing the Cross-Party Mental Health and Addictions Wellbeing Group.Just to give our listeners at home and those in the Chamber some context behind that cross-party group on mental health and addictions wellbeing I also need to acknowledge a former member of Labour too—Louisa Wall—for her help in getting that across the line. This was one of the many recommendations out of He Ara Oranga the mental health and addiction inquiry which published I believe in 2018 or 2019. The cross-party group was one of the recommendations of that mental health and addiction inquiry and it recommended effectively that this cross-party group could look at Governments across generations or across the three-year cycle to see that the recommendations for systemic change for resourcing and for funding were actually being meaningfully implemented.I think there's a really important point as was actually raised by my colleagues in the Labour Party—Ingrid Leary in particular—about the fact that there isn't yet I believe enough mind paid to the far more stigmatised element of mental ill health that is of course substance addiction and abuse. I'm really interested here to see what progress we can make through the select committee to shine a spotlight on that because successive Governments have commissioned advice on addiction. This was also the case in He Ara Oranga that mental health and addiction inquiry but also Turuki! Turuki! Move together! the Safe and Effective Justice Advisory Group review also tabled in my first term 2017-2020. Both of those recommended that in order to actually meaningfully deal with the issues of substance abuse and addiction we needed to take them outside of the criminal justice sector and place them squarely within health. And that's something which we've seen no Government successively be willing to have a backbone on actually meaningfully implementing. But we have an incredible opportunity here should this Government like to walk the talk when it comes to their commitments to data and evidence.As other speakers have already alluded to this bill has kind of actually already manifest in a strategy that does exist out there albeit this bill does require that it is mandated for future Governments to do it so there is of course some value in that. That long-term strategy or that 10-year strategy as others have alluded to is Kia Manawanui Aotearoa. And again I believe that there's a really important point to be made here about the fact that we also need to see an overhaul of the mental health Act in totality. This was something which the former Government was meaningfully looking into and I acknowledge that in the briefing to the incoming Minister for Mental Health it was something that was acknowledged that officials had been working on for several years now especially with the incredible complexities with regard to compulsory assessment and treatment orders.So I guess in a nutshell the Greens agree that it is important that successive Governments are mandated to produce these strategies and that it's the case that they should be consulting with stakeholders across the health sector. Noting of course that it currently already exists—there is a strategy out there—but that we have continued to see successive Governments ignore the evidence and advice that they have commissioned which has not been convenient in fitting with political narrative and not doing that hard stuff.I guess just with the final minute and a half that's afforded to me if I may speak to some of the broader thematics that we have looked into in the cross-party group on mental health and addictions wellbeing I just wanted to acknowledge the Minister as well for the fact that I believe he is intending to ensure that mental health strategy in this country is akin to the mahi that the Hon James Shaw undertook with the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act in our ability to produce cross-partisan strategies and commitments to resourcing for example. One of those key pieces of evidence that we do need to be looking into is how we meaningfully tackle substance abuse and addiction through again using the evidence which says that we need to take it out of the criminal justice sphere but also that we need to be willing to invest meaningfully in youth one-stop shops. This is a model which we looked into in our second report out of that cross-party group which we found has phenomenal results for our young people with a no-wrong-door approach. I find it mind-blowing that we don't have a youth one-stop-shop in Tāmaki-makau-rau Auckland—in our largest city.So I just in closing wanted to also acknowledge something which the Minister will know I've said many times before including on our special debates on the cross-party group reports: that I find it also rather upsetting that while we can acknowledge that mental ill health is in crisis we still are not yet willing to address the social determinants. I think there's a massive opportunity for cross-party consensus there.