Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Thank you very much Madam Speaker. I rise to give voice to the many thousands of vulnerable New Zealanders who trusted this Government. They turned up to the mental health inquiry and shared their personal and often traumatic stories about their experience with the mental health system. Those vulnerable New Zealanders trusted this Government. The Labour Party rode into power on the back of many people's pain in 2017. They have promised big and yet again they have failed to deliver. The gap is galling between their rhetoric and what they had to deliver. The recently released annual report for mental health and addiction services the first annual report of that mental health inquiry—because it's been delayed for so long—was the Government's first opportunity to prove to those vulnerable New Zealanders that they had listened to their stories they had responded and they had made a change to the mental health system which they claimed they would do. And what did they do? They gave those vulnerable New Zealanders a kick in the guts. Why? The data was missing. Numbers accessing specialist mental health services were gone. Numbers accessing community mental health services were stripped out. Consumer survey satisfaction gone along with suicide statistics. Here we had a Government that was trusted with stories from vulnerable New Zealanders telling their desperate often traumatic stories. This Government promised they would make a difference and they have failed to deliver.What do we hear? We hear the Minister of Health with his head in the sand with his response that the Government has no legal obligation to produce that report. Well if they don't have a legal obligation they have a moral obligation to deliver that report. Many people look at that report every year. Those data sets have been delivered in that format for over a decade and in the first annual report under this Labour Government they have stripped out data. Why? Well Stuff under the Official Information Act were able to reveal emails from the Ministry of Health officials who introduced a term into the public sector called a risk lens". They did not want negative statistics. That is something we would expect in North Korea in Zimbabwe in Myanmar—and here we are in New Zealand. How can New Zealanders have confidence in the public sector?And not only that there were some Ministry of Health officials who challenged that and said no—they are accurate statistics and it's not about whether it's negative or positive. That data was accurate and if it did not stay in that report some officials were worried there were going to be no other opportunities for the public to see that data.And what do we learn? The director-general Dr Ashley Bloomfield signed that first report off in July 2020. Something has changed since he first signed that report off. Here we are—March 2021 and another report was pushed out just before Easter. Remember the Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission report that was buried on the day of the tsunami warnings and the COVID level changes? Here we have another report disgracefully pushed out and what we do know is that Ministry of Health officials fought hard not to report negative statistics. They want to run a risk lens over it to protect the Government. This Minister of Health needs to take responsibility. He needs to release the data today to New Zealanders. He not only needs to release the data; he needs to tell New Zealanders whether he knew that data was going to be stripped out of the annual report. And finally this Minister needs to assure New Zealanders that no one at the Minister of Health's office instructed Ministry of Health officials to doctor that report. We need to have faith in the New Zealand public sector and this report doesn't give us faith."