Ross Jami-Lee; Tolley AnneJAMI-LEE ROSS (Botany): Thank you Madam Speaker. I wish to speak in support of this bill as everyone so far in this House has. Like many many people in this House it's an issue that I care very deeply about more so than I thought I would 18 months ago but events took a different course.Like everyone else in this House I wish to commend the Government for progressing this legislation and commend the Minister for the establishment of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission. It seems that the issue of mental health is one of the very few issues in this House where we actually have cross-party support where we have everyone agreeing and where everyone's trying to head in the same direction; it's quite rare to see that in this Parliament. But it's good to see as a few speakers have already said that mental health is no longer a political issue. It certainly was at the last election. I recall fronting up at meeting after meeting as people were very very unhappy about the approach taken to mental health. But it's good to see that progress is being made.It's also good to see that there has been the significant investment into mental health that we saw in the last Budget. The inquiry that was set up certainly recommended a mental health and wellbeing commission to provide leadership and advocacy and hold the Government to account hold the Parliament to account too on what it does on the issues of mental health. All strength to that future commission on what it does.I have to say though when we think about what this Parliament has done in regards to mental health in the now more than two years we've done a lot but mostly in the space of discussion and around groups. We had the inquiry. What are what are the big successes so far that we can talk about when it comes to mental health that have come out of this Parliament? The inquiry that's been set up. A lot of people had their voice heard. A lot of recommendations came back. The cross-party mental health group was set up. That's great. It's good to see politicians working together on this important issue. Now the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission is being set up as well. But we have to ask ourselves when we go to voters in about 10 months' time when MPs from across the House front up at public meetings or front up in front of the people that care deeply about this—we have to wonder what have we actually delivered. What has this Parliament actually delivered that is making a real and meaningful impact in the day-to-day lives of people?The number one recommendation from the mental health and wellbeing inquiry was to (1) agree to significantly increase access to publicly funded mental health and addiction services for people with mild to moderate and moderate to severe mental health and addiction needs. The Minister has delivered $1.8 billion in the Budget. The finance Minister fronted up and agreed to a significant funding boost far more than the $100 million that the last Government was talking about just in the lead up to an election. But when the person who is struggling to get access to services when the mother of a child who is struggling to get—desperately struggling—assistance for her child says What have I seen out of this funding?" the answer so far is "Not very much."When the wife of a person who's struggling has police knocking at her door because her husband is suffering a mental health crisis and she is desperate to get support but hasn't been able to so far because there just isn't enough support up until the point at which someone is actually trying to harm themselves can we say to her that there are deliverables that there's more people on the ground that there's more services available? We are seeing a number of announcements coming but it's not enough yet. I hope this Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission drives policy and drives the wellbeing and mental health focus that the Government and the Minister want and that is admirable and that is great; that is what we need. But also we need to see funding and services on the ground.When the Prime Minister and the Minister fronted up at a South Auckland doctors' clinic to talk about greater primary health services primary health - mental health services that was a great example of something that needs to be done. But we need that in thousands of doctors' clinics across the country. We need to be able to say to the person whose child is trying to harm themselves or the spouse whose partner is suffering great difficulty that there are now services in front of them that we are now seeing deliverables and we aren't yet seeing that.We had a great promise to the nation around mental health but I don't think it's been fully implemented yet. I hope the Government is able to achieve more. I hope the Minister is able to deliver more for people in the next 10 months but time is ticking. We've spent too much time talking and having inquiries and having discussions. People need more services on the ground—that is required that needs to be delivered and I wish the Government luck with that.DEPUTY SPEAKER: I'm sorry I didn't announce at the start this was a split call. I call Willow-Jean Prime."