Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. Today in Christchurch there is a proposal to close down a mental health facility with the reason being that that facility is only currently staffed by 50 percent of the staff it requires to operate. Today on the North Shore there are mental health patients being admitted to the emergency department who are waiting four days in windowless rooms in the emergency department before they get admitted to a ward. That is the reality of mental health under a Labour Government and you will not find an issue more emblematic than mental health than five years of failure by this Government. Remember when this Government came into power in 2017 promising to transform the mental health system? Yet only a Labour Government can spend $1.9 billion and no one knows where it's gone. The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission in its first damning report found that despite the $1.9 billion there have been no material improvements. How can you spend $1.9 billion and not make a difference? A Labour Government can and it's soul-destroying for the thousands of New Zealanders who turned up to Labour's mental health inquiry five years ago and told their heartfelt and often painful stories. Do you hear about that inquiry's recommendations today—the 58 recommendations? No because they were quietly shelved and not talked about again. The reality is under a Labour Government when you start the comparison after five years—under six years of the last National Government access to child and adolescent mental health specialist services increased by 91 percent. That's the reality and what have we done under the Labour Government's spending of $1.9 billion? Access has increased less than 2 percent. It was 91 percent under the last National Government versus 2 percent under the Labour Government. That is the difficulty as many vulnerable New Zealanders can't access the valuable services they need.The issue we have got in New Zealand through their lack of leadership and their lack of a clear plan for mental health is now we have a mental health workforce crisis that sits solely on the lap of this Labour Government. In the last five years under this Labour Government when they took office mental health nurse vacancies have increased by 52 percent psychiatrist vacancies have increased by 58 percent and look at psychologist vacancies: they have blown out by 140 percent since Labour took office—$1.9 billion yet massive blowouts in our vacancies and the biggest obstacle to vulnerable New Zealanders accessing services today in New Zealand is there's no workforce to see them. Five years and the waiting times are ballooning the costs are skyrocketing and vulnerable New Zealanders can't get access to the services that they were promised.Then we find out the mental health facility in Christchurch is operating at 50 percent staff vacancies and we wonder why we've got a high burnout rate in the mental health sector. Well that's because the already stretched staff are covering more vacancies. The Association of Salaried Medical Specialists has come out this week and said that if those beds are closed down those beds will be lost. Under a Labour Government we are losing mental health beds. Then we find on the North Shore in their emergency department vulnerable Kiwis are turning up to the emergency department and waiting four days in a windowless room to get to a mental health ward. That is the reality of mental health under Labour.They promised so much. They said that they would transform the mental health system. They announced $1.9 billion which they paraded around like a trophy. That $1.9 billion is now a millstone around their neck as five years of failure in mental health under Labour.