Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thank you Madam Chair. It's a pleasure to rise and give a good speech I hope on the Health Committee review. We're a hardworking select committee and generally speaking we get on very well—we're pretty collegial and we work well across the floor I believe.What we do know though is that this Government inherited a chronically underfunded health system. Everyone here on the Government benches has talked absolutely about a health system that was groaning—groaning under the weight of people accessing but not having the services that they needed not having the funding and the infrastructure failures etc. Most of us have had friends or family on waiting lists. Many of us know people who were desperate to access mental health or addiction services and just weren't able to get them. I myself operated a women's refuge and often we would call the police rather than the crisis assessment team (CAT) because the mental health services were so overloaded in my community.But there is some good news—there is some good news. Our Government came in. We put $50 million immediately towards mental health and instigated as our Minister has indicated a mental health inquiry with findings coming out shortly. It is important work. We cannot hurry this. We have put in early-intervention counselling for 18- to 25-year-olds experiencing mild to moderate mental distress. Prevention is better than waiting for a crisis. I applaud our Government for doing that. Piki was launched in Porirua. It's now available in the Capital and Coast District Health Board and tertiary institutions throughout Wellington the Hutt and Wairarapa. We heard about Mana Ake: supporting five- to 12-year-olds in Canterbury and Kaikōura. Again this is about prevention and health is also about prevention.The Hon Nicky Wagner spoke to us about smoking and spoke to us about the fact that we're no longer counting smoking. So let me tell you what that looked like previously. When a person attends a hospital or a health facility they are asked if they smoke. If they say yes the person says to them Would you like to speak to someone about that?" That is the intervention that occurs and that is the intervention that is counted. So I for one am not at all upset about the fact that when we count the meaningful aspects—the giving up of smoking etc.—those targets are not really important or necessary.I think it's really important to say that with the $750 million set aside for capital works we are going to have fit for purpose health facilities again in this country. There was mould—really; mould?—and operating theatres where the rain was coming in and specialists were sitting and being paid but were unable to operate. This is what we inherited. I'm so proud of our Minister for the work that he's done in this space.Finally I would also like to just mention our family violence intervention work that occurs in the health sector. So with the 10 district health boards (DHBs) that we spoke to I had the opportunity to ask questions about the family violence interventions that occur and a training package that works across the social services agencies in the community to help train to identify and vet for family violence. Everyone without a doubt spoke absolutely of the importance of that work and the continuation. So I'm absolutely proud with our $320 million that we've just invested into family violence and sexual violence that health is a big player in that.Finally I would also in the last five minutes—five seconds—just like to say I think it is so very important that we are looking and have invested $12 million in rheumatic fever for our Māori and Pacific families. My daughter got rheumatic fever as a child as a Māori child and this will be a game-changer. Thank you Minister."