Leary Ingrid; Willis NicolaINGRID LEARY (Labour—Taieri): Madam Chair I'd really like to hear from the Minister. I was hoping to do quick-fire but given that we seem to be getting lectures I'll do a series of questions and it would be great to have answers about mental health. The Minister for Mental Health has not been able to tell me in response to written questions what percentage of the $30 billion health budget he actually has available for mental health. I find that problematic because with Oranga Tamariki for example three one-stop shops have been cut. Normally they would be able to go to the Minister for Mental Health and say Could you fund it out of your budget?" but given he doesn't know what his budget is it would be really useful to hear that from the Minister of Finance and to hear whether she thinks he should be spending his budget on revitalising those really significant services because we do know the country is in a mental health crisis.I would also like to get her take on whether it is normal practice for a Minister to apply criteria to a fund such as the mental health innovation fund requiring $250000 co-funding without any formal consultation in Government with organisations. We understand from the media that he was consulted when he was in Opposition. That doesn't seem kosher to me so I'm just really keen to see whether it is going to be a continued practice of her Government.And finally we're expecting the workforce plan to come out at the end of September. There hasn't been any allocation for workforce in Budget 2024. What is she going to do to support her new Minister for Mental Health to be able to implement something because the sector is crying out for psychiatrists psychologists mental health nurses and so on and it's very clear that this cannot happen—it doesn't matter how good the plan is—if there is no uplift of funding. So can she please advise how that workforce plan is going to happen? Is she going to provide her Minister with more money?Hon NICOLA WILLIS (Minister of Finance): Briefly I'd just like to congratulate the member Ingrid Leary for taking a pause in her ongoing crusade against Gumboot Friday to ask some other questions about mental health. We are proud to be a Government that has the first ever Minister for Mental Health and I am advised that in this Budget we increased overall funding for mental health over the course of future Budgets in terms of health funding by $166 million.The member Ginny Andersen asked some questions about police. Hey—this is a Budget that delivers 500 additional front-line police officers. It is true that Police did not contribute the full quantum of savings of 6.5 percent. That's because when they put forward their proposals we judged that some of them were not proposals that we wanted to advance. However we did accept their advice that they could make some reductions at headquarters without compromising front-line services. At the same time we provided a considerable uplift of funding to address police cost pressures of $120 million. And I'll tell you what else helps the police. It is about funding it is about front-line officers and we've delivered those things but it's also about having a Government that says "When you arrest people we'll ensure that the courts can sentence them properly by having proper sentencing laws by having laws that actually make gangs out to be what they are which is a threat and a harm to society to create victims of violence and we will be a Government that will be tough on crime" and I think the police like that too."