Wall Louisa; Rurawhe AdrianLOUISA WALL (Labour): Tēnā koe e te Māngai o te Whare. Tēnā koutou katoa. Can I firstly thank the Business Committee for providing the opportunity for the Zero Suicide Aotearoa report to be debated today. Can I also take the opportunity to thank Dr Shane Reti for enabling me to contribute to this kōrero given my membership of the cross-party Mental Health and Addictions Wellbeing Group that was established in September 2019. I can say that at the time I was the chair of the Health Committee and in so doing I'd like to acknowledge Jenny Marcroft who was a member of that committee; Matt Doocey who was a member of that committee; and in fact Dr Reti himself. I'd also like to thank the mental health and addictions workforce those of our community who specifically choose to work with people who have mental health and addiction challenges. Your work is phenomenal we need to support you better and this report is an effort to help all of us collectively understand the context within which you work. E kore e ngaro tō tātou tūmanako.[Our hope will never be lost.]For me today provides an amazing opportunity for much hope because our report it clear: suicide deaths are preventable. If we start from that premise then I think the challenge for all of us is: how do we enable people to have mental health and addiction wellbeing? What do we need to do to provide us—all of us—with the tools to be able to mitigate the complexity of life because suicide is in fact an incredibly complex phenomenon and it occurs in all regions of the world. So when I look at my own mental health wellbeing where does that come from? For me it comes from my whakapapa. It comes from being a member of a whānau of a hapū and of an iwi. It comes from my language which is takatāpui. It means I exist in my cultural framework as I am: valued loved nurtured and accepted. So for me I have a tūrangawaewae and when you have a tūrangawaewae that is solid and that is stable you can weather life because life is a challenge. When you have a tūrangawaewae you know that you're never alone. So the challenges of bullying and of harassment the challenges of violence of racism of sexism of homophobia—which essentially is about power and it's essentially about how we distribute the opportunity that our public-good system for example delivers to New Zealanders. Are they equitable? Do they enable from my perspective every single New Zealander to create a tūrangawaewae that's going to enable them to lead a resilient participative strong life? So from my perspective what this report actually does is it consolidates all the best practice around the world and I have to acknowledge Phillipa Gaines. I think she did a phenomenal job because in fact there were a lot of discussions about what this report could do should do would do but in the end I think the title speaks for itself. Again that is that every suicide is preventable and if you have a national strategy then you're on a pathway to fulfilling the specific needs of different communities. I particularly want to take the opportunity—even though tomorrow is the 35th anniversary of homosexual law reform and our LGBT community have faced such horrific discrimination and particularly our trans intersex and non-binary people continue to do so—and I would actually like to focus on MATES in Construction. Construction is an area where there's a lot of stress and obviously men are employed in the construction sector. There's an initiative called MATES in Construction which actually has empowered mates—men—working on construction sites to disclose that they're having challenges that they're stressed and that they have relationship issues and financial issues and for me that is at the heart of the solution to the issue. It has to be based in the communities that have the concerns about suicide and I want to commend that initiative because it's providing the platform—DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired.