Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. Tēnā koutou katoa. DEPUTY SPEAKER: Split call—sorry this is a split call. LOUISA WALL: Split call—yes with my colleague Liz Craig. It's my pleasure to speak to the health component of our Budget and that health component actually comprises $18.1 billion which is 21 percent of our overall Budget. It very much typifies the priorities that we have as a Government—Labour New Zealand First and the Greens. What are our priorities? Well actually our priorities fundamentally are children young people and also those who haven't got the disposable income to get to a doctor. We see that fundamental to a functioning society is access to health so I would categorise our priorities as health being a right for all. That's typified by access to health from 1 December this year for 60000 New Zealand children who are aged under 14 years of age. We've been very specific about who we want to prioritise because from our perspective as I said earlier our children and our young people are important and we have to make sure that they're in the best health possible.We've also prioritised nurses in schools and so from—well from this year in addition to nurses being in decile 1 to 3 schools they will also be in decile 4 schools so that's going to cover another 24000 young people. Plus—and this is the big plus—those who have a community services card those who are low and middle income New Zealanders which is 540000 New Zealanders will be able to go to the doctor for free. We think that's a big deal—600000 Kiwis being able to go to the doctor making sure they're healthy focusing on our children and focusing on young people.What have been our other health priorities in our Budget? Actually we've had a lot of remedial work that needs to be done: assets—hospital assets—that have been left to go into disrepair weathertightness issues asbestos issues sewage problem issues. So we have $850 million for capital developments over the next four years but specifically $750 million for those remedial works that have to be undertaken unfortunately in district health boards (DHBs) like mine Counties Manukau District Health Board.We've also prioritised an extra $3.2 billion in operational funding. What are we going to do with that money? Well $2.2 billion of that money over the next four years will go to DHBs because unfortunately 19 of the 20 are actually in deficit because they haven't received the funding that they've needed to operate. So rather than say to our DHBs You must save money." we actually want DHBs to provide services to our community so New Zealanders get access to the services they need. So there will be no constraints on our hospitals being able to deliver those services because the Government's putting pressure on them to save money.The other area that I want to highlight in my last minute and a half really has been about the change to Pharmac—very very important change.Hon Gerry Brownlee: Cutting funding.LOUISA WALL: Very very important change Mr Brownlee. What we have done is now say to Pharmac "You have the full remit to purchase medicines for New Zealand."—full remit dispensed in the community and dispensed in DHBs. Why we had a system before the combined pharmaceutical budget that said to DHBs "You buy your own medicines for hospitals and then Pharmac you can buy medicines for everything else."—ridiculous. So we've sorted that out and next year alone they're going to get an extra $114.2 million—an increase of 13 percent. That's a budget of $985 million to buy the pharmaceuticals that we as Kiwis need.That's massive when you look at this list. This is a list of drugs that the Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory Committee which is part of Pharmac have said that we should fund. The efficacy's there; we just haven't had the money to fund them. There are five items on there that are high-priority items. They are going to—now I'm probably going to not pronounce all these but Sildenafil which is for Fontan patients is high. It's been on this list for 6.75 years. Hopefully through a process Pharmac will determine that that drug now can be funded. There's on here—Hon Gerry Brownlee: Is that an announcement?LOUISA WALL: Is it an announcement? Well I hope actually that there'll be several announcements Mr Brownlee because we've got more money and we can buy more drugs to treat more New Zealanders. Kia ora.DEPUTY SPEAKER: I call the honourable Dr—oh I beg your pardon. I call Dr Liz Craig."