Doocey MattHon MATT DOOCEY (Minister for Mental Health): Just say sorry—that's exactly what the country wants to hear from this Opposition. Just say sorry for what you've done to our country. They've crashed the economy law and order is spiralling out of control our kids are not even going to school and that's the legacy of that last Government. The first majority Government since the start of MMP and what will they be known for? Abject incompetence—the failure to deliver. They were a Government of misinformation. They were a Government of disinformation. They were a Government that was a failed socialist experiment because there's only one trick in Labour's playbook and that's to centralise. The health reforms the polytech reforms water reforms three waters—because under their book Labour knows best and Wellington knows best.I tell you what the public did at the end of last year: they voted for change. They wanted change because they had had enough and what I won't stand for now is listening to all these Opposition MPs who have found in themselves a voice. They're a lion in Opposition but a lamb in Government. They sat here day after day last term—zip zilch de nada. They didn't say a word on behalf of their electorates when they were ramming through reforms that New Zealanders didn't want and we warned them. We warned them that they would die on the hill with things like three waters and that's why when they look around here today less of their colleagues are back because they sat here like lemmings and didn't represent their electorates.It's summed up by one Labour MP who got booted out and when he got vox popped out the front of Parliament his response was Oh my lifestyle's gone from champagne socialism to lemonade." and that's exactly what was happening: champagne socialism while everyone out of the beltway of Wellington was hurting. That's why now we are left in a predicament where this country is facing years of deficits. But they will be for ever known as the Government of three waters. They'll be known as the Government of health reforms in the middle of a pandemic that took a wrecking ball to DHBs. Their own Heather Simpson report said to go from 20 to about six to eight but they went from 20 to zero in the middle of a pandemic and Kiwis are paying the price now because they're stuck on waiting lists because of that Government's focus on growing the bureaucracy.Think about the lawlessness we've experienced in New Zealand: ram raid after ram raid after ram raid. That Government had its head in the sand and that's why it's very clear that the New Zealand public voted for change. We're unashamed that we will repeal what that last Government brought in because it took the country backwards. This coalition Government will take the country forward. We won't have all the misinformation like with three waters of the misleading advertising campaigns of people turning taps on and green water coming out. When they promised local government that they could opt in but Official Information Act documents revealed it was an all-in from the very start they misled New Zealanders and they should not be returned back to the Treasury benches for a very long time. It was outlaid very clearly in the Speech from the Throne that we need to grow New Zealand's economy. We've got years of deficits ahead of us. We need to unblock what that last Labour Government did in order to allow New Zealanders to grow and flourish. Can I also acknowledge the very hard-working people of Waimakariri who returned me in the last election for my fourth term. People in the electorate of Waimakariri—when you look at the history of it since 1996 they've elected Labour and National MPs. They reward hard work and my commitment today to them is I will continue to work hard for them as I did in my first term and now I will in my fourth term. Can I thank my family for supporting me to be here today as well as my campaign team and the many people who have supported me over the last nine years including one gentleman Roger Bridge who's up here in the gallery listening today. I want to acknowledge my ministerial colleagues as well who will make a big difference in this country. Why will they make a big difference? Because our Minister of Health is a GP our Minister of Police was a bravery award - winning police officer our tertiary education Minister Penny Simmonds ran a polytech a tertiary education institution. The difference is that on this side of the House we know what we're doing.We don't come here with big grand slogans that fail to deliver and nothing worse in their failure to deliver was around mental health. Remember the $1.9 billion and the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission came out in its first report and said that despite the $1.9 billion there was no material improvement? It's very clear when talking to officials that announcements were being made that even the officials knew could not be delivered. It was all about grandstands it was all about headlines—putting out the latest slogan of transformation. But what they really did was raise expectations for some very vulnerable New Zealanders and they failed to deliver. I'm very privileged to be New Zealand's first Minister for Mental Health and as the Prime Minister outlined in the Speech from the Throne we will get money out of Wellington to the front line. Like our announcement of $6 million for Gumboot Friday. We don't believe the bureaucracy of Wellington knows best; the front-line community NGOs know best. They know what makes a difference. They're already delivering and we will get money to their front line. Another reason why Labour failed to deliver in mental health was they never understood the issues. It was just all spray and walk away—$100 million here $100 million there. The reality is you can announce money but if you don't have the workforce to deliver it no services are going to open. If they'd really done their job and started a pipeline of workforce six years ago we wouldn't have a mental health workforce crisis today. The biggest barrier to timely mental health and addiction support in New Zealand is the lack of mental health workforce and as we heard the Prime Minister announce in the Speech from the Throne our commitment is to train more psychiatrists and more psychologists. We'll work through every discipline to ensure that we open up that pipeline to ensure there's workers in our mental health services as well as people with lived experience in the peer support teams that we can roll out who will make a real difference. We need to focus on increasing access to timely support. We've done a great job in New Zealand encouraging a conversation. We've broken down some of the stigma for those who want to come forward. Now they trust us they take a great leap of faith and when they do come forward quite often that timely support is not there. So that's why we've got to focus on getting more money out of Wellington to increase access. We've got to reduce the workforce vacancies to ensure that when services are funded there are people there to deliver them.But of course most importantly it's not only about treating mental illness; at the same time we need to promote mental wellbeing. We need to focus a lot more on prevention and early intervention and that is what this Government will do because what we will do is actually deliver on our promises. The time for big slogans is over. It's about delivery and that is the difference with this new coalition Government. Thank you."