SpeechLAWRENCE YULE (National—Tukituki): It's a pleasure to take a call in this general debate. Today I specifically want to focus on delivery or lack of it of this Government in my own electorate. It's become abundantly clear to me over the last six months but particularly in the last week that the Ministry of Health and the Minister of Health clearly do not know what's going on with my own electorate and the capital programmes that are meant to be delivered. Equally housing is woeful and I'll come to the point of the stats I now have leading up to the election which are woeful.In November 2018 the Hawke's Bay District Health Board asked the Government for $10 million to replace the radiology department at Hawke's Bay Hospital. It was a joint investment—$10 million from saved money from the DHB; $10 million from the Government. That money was approved by the Capital Investment Committee in August 2019—August last year. As I was seeking to find out what was happening with these projects I was provided an answer from the Minister that the money was put in the Budget—Budget 2019. It was put in the Budget and it was funded. Further on in the questions the Minister said he'd never received any advice from the Capital Investment Committee to support this. Clearly the two don't line up. So late last week an urgent paper was given to the Minister of Health and on Monday he wrote to the Hawke's Bay District Health Board saying that on Friday he'd approved it.I raise that because the net result is a loss of nearly a year from when that project could have been funded and built and the people in my electorate could have had an upgraded set of radiology equipment. In my electorate in the Hawke's Bay Hospital the radiology equipment is that old that in many ways staff are refusing to work on it and some of the accreditation is gone.I then also checked on what happened to the surgical services upgrade—basically another theatre block. Delays in that have pushed the price up by $4 million and lo and behold subject to my questions on Friday that was also put in front of the Ministers and yesterday it was approved. Without me showing what was going on none of those projects would have happened.Then I come to the much-awaited concept in Hawke's Bay: the announcement in August 2019 of a new linear accelerator for the region. That means that people in Hawke's Bay do not have to travel to Palmerston North for radiology treatment. Lo and behold what do we find? No business case has even been started. No money has been set aside nor even an application made for the bunker for that facility. This was to be delivered in 2020-2021. Not a single piece of movement had happened and when I questioned it they say that COVID came along. Yes COVID did come along but actually developing a business case for a linear accelerator and putting a case up to the Government could have been done during that time but it hasn't been. So once again the people of Hastings Napier Wairoa and Central Hawke's Bay are denied the opportunity of a linear accelerator for at least a year in my view—maybe longer—because the ministry and the Minister cannot get their act together to deliver what they promised. They promised in August 2019 that this would be delivered in 2020-21.Now I wish to close on housing. Housing is a disgrace in Hastings and the stats—the latest stats—don't paint a very nice picture. In 2017 there were 163 people on the housing waiting list when this Government took office. In March of this year there were 500 people living in temporary accommodation in Hastings despite the fact that there are 2.5 hectares of vacant land and this Government could have built some houses. The latest report I have back is that 12 houses have been built in Hastings in two years; another 38 are meant to be built by October—that's for the election. But guess what! At the same time they're building 38 houses by October they're also going to demolish 28. The net result: in three years in Hastings despite the fact that there is vacant land and despite the fact that the waiting list has gone from 163 to 500 the delivery of houses in Hastings is a net 22. It's a disgrace.