Henare PeeniHon PEENI HENARE (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. Thank you for this opportunity to speak on this particular bill. And I want to acknowledge the member Ryan Hamilton for his kind offer for restaurants that one might find in Hamilton for people to visit. Well I can tell that member what he won't find in Hamilton is a Super Rugby championship; that was won by the Auckland Blues—and we'll just leave that one there. But what I'd like to say about this particular bill is it does something that I like to say signed sealed and not delivered". I want to acknowledge Dr Cheung and why I want to acknowledge him is he did a very good job of not reading the National Party research group lines but he made an effort to quantify the investment into health. And while I commend that member for the statistics that he threw out into the House this evening I want to just square off a couple of my own statistics with respect to health and what I perceive to be a lack of investment into this particular Budget on matters in particular of Māori health and rural health. During the urgency that was had to take apart the Pae Ora legislation in the end of February of this year the health Minister guaranteed this House that business per usual will continue after the Budget and into the next financial year for Māori health providers and rural health providers. That was a challenge that we put to him at the time. What we've seen in the Budget and I acknowledge Mr Cheung and his statistics with respect to emergency wait rooms while just over 70 percent of those in rural areas around the country will see their local Māori health provider and local health provider not see a continuation on the funding that will support them to have outreach into those communities. I'm afraid we are going to need more money into those emergency departments because the health services that can stop families from ending up in the emergency department is not found in this Budget. And that is an absolute travesty.That means that for places like the Bay of Plenty where Te Puna Ora o Mataatua have made it clear that this Budget has neglected to see the work that they do in order to stop families both Maōri and Pākehā ending up in the health system where we don't want them to be. Where that is is in the emergency department. Let me be very clear for members on that side of the House what many Maōri refer to as the emergency department; we call it the departure lounge because more often than not—and the statistics prove it for Maōri who end up there—it's already too late. That tells us then that the primary health care they need in their communities is not being delivered. And what this Budget has told those communities is there is no money for those initiatives that serve those communities well. It will continue to see the life expectancy for Maōri to be significantly less than those of non-Māori descent. One of the other ones that Māori and non-Māori health providers are mentioning in their analysis of the Budget is when we look towards the diabetes numbers in this country. Yes Māori and Pacific people are overrepresented in those particular statistics. An increasing number of our Indian community are finding a huge spike in those who are impacted and affected by type 2 diabetes. Service providers around this country who don't have dialysis services in those particular regions have made it clear in their analysis of this Budget that they will not have the services to be able to provide the kind of support that these people so desperately need in the region.What's very clear to me is that this particular Budget and this particular bill and the details within it make a case for wrong decisions make a case for a Government that had an opportunity to go one way but instead chose to go backwards; chose to take funding chose to take initiatives off the table and in the hope that they can fool the New Zealand public with a tax break. Well the public aren't that silly. When they get on to that calculator that's been championed by the other side of the House they'll see that there is a pittance for them at the end of the week. But what they'll also realise too is that many of the services that they relied upon have been stripped—those services have been taken away and now the cost for them to receive those services will go up which means those tax breaks will mean bugger all if anything at all. I do not commend this bill to the House."