Doocey MattMATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Thank you very much Madam Assistant Speaker. Very much like that speech from Ginny Andersen I would call the Budget awkward. It's just kind of been all a bit awkward really hasn't it? No one really knows. I mean here we had it—we were all poised on Thursday and we didn't go into urgency. It all just went really quiet. It was all a bit awkward. And then we've got one of the key policy areas health and we've got the health Minister overseas. It's all a bit awkward. I mean maybe some of his colleagues chipped in to send him in a plane overseas and I would too because that's a Budget that has under-delivered in health.Look at mental health. Mental health because of the new Government was a political football in the last election. They talked up a big game about action. Action" they said. They inherited $100 million in a mental health contingency fund. Already they've short-changed the mental health community eight months in. Yes they've announced $25 million towards school-based mental health professionals and $10 million to appease the Greens with free counselling but where's the other $60 million? It's missing. It's disappeared. It's all just getting a bit awkward.And then we have Minister after Minister coming to the House—it's almost like a competition of who can say the most awkward quote. You've got Chris Hipkins who says "They're not broken promises they're just promises we haven't delivered." And then there was this other kind of awkward quote: Ron Mark said "Judge a Government by not what they say or believe but what they do." Well where's the money for mental health then? Where's the action? Where is the money for mental health that was promised?In fact all they've done by this Budget is actually prove what a cynical ploy the mental health review is—kicking the issues down the road for another year. We've already got people in the mental health community clearly outlining their concerns. "One of the dangers is that this review isn't going to tell us anything we [don't] know already."—that was Shaun Robinson from the Mental Health Foundation. We also know that Kevin Allan said there is need for action not an inquiry. And then we have just one more Minister coming down to the House and even more awkward quotes. The Hon Nanaia Mahuta said today "It's not being cut it's just being reprioritised." I mean how awkward is that?I tell you what in sport—because that's what question time seems to be at the moment with all these questions going two up and two down—we say "The scoreboard never lies; look at the scoreboard." Well in Budget 2017 the former National Government announced $224 million for mental health. That was the baseline that these guys had to beat and they failed. What have they announced? Well I actually mapped out all their pledges for mental health and out of about 20 they get five and that's only because two parties repeated the mental health review inquiry. They only got five out of 20.And I'll tell you what they're missing: David Clark said in November as the Minister of Health that all people going to their GP for mental health issues—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Poto Williams): I apologise to the member. The time has come for me to leave the chair for the dinner break.Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.DEPUTY SPEAKER: When we were last here prior to the dinner break Matt Doocey had the floor and he has 48 seconds remaining to speak should he so wish.MATT DOOCEY: I raise a point of order Madam Speaker. It was actually a 10-minute call so I had 5 minutes and 48 seconds left.DEPUTY SPEAKER: Split call—OK.MATT DOOCEY: Thank you very much Madam Deputy Speaker. I spoke just before the dinner break. I was thinking about what I would call this Budget. And I must say before I get into it: how good was Simon Bridges leading off as Opposition leader? There're many people in this room who will remember the Hon Andrew Little. Now let's go back there. What a car crash—what a car crash that was. Night and day—that is the difference between Andrew Little and Simon Bridges. What a fantastic Opposition leader's speech. It clearly defined the narrative of this Budget—a "Broken Promises Budget".I'd go one step further. I called the Budget a bit awkward because that's kind of what it was. Everyone upped sticks on the Thursday afternoon and nothing else was said. Everyone kind of looked around a bit awkwardly and then we come back and the health Minister's overseas and the rumour is even some of his colleagues chipped in to get him offshore. It was all just a bit awkward wasn't it? Then we had something quite bizarre. See I put up a mental health question in question time and it was transferred to the finance Minister. They wouldn't even give the Associate Ministers of Health a go at responding to the issues about the missing millions in mental health.This Government talked up a big game in mental health at the last election. They inherited $100 million and they announced a couple of small pledges—and fair enough they were pretty good: support in schools and free counselling for 18- to 25-year-olds. But actually when you added that up it was only about $45 million. Where's the $50 million to $60 million that's left? And then Grant Robertson got up in the House and said "Oh the advisers have looked back into it and we've actually decided that some of the money for the DHBs will be for mental health." Well that's interesting because if you go back through the Budget dossier you will not see any reference to increased ring-fencing for mental health funding for district health boards (DHBs).I'm looking forward to that advice coming back because I've got a theory that there's probably a few advisers desperately calling up the DHBs now informing them of that little windfall—because of course they had to plug the gap because people had realised there was a short-changing of the mental health sector by $50 million. Now these were important initiatives. One was to put mental health services for young prisoners in correctional facilities. Why have they short-changed mental health by the tune of $50 million?I do want to take the opportunity just to talk about well highways. It's pretty topical in my electorate of Waimakariri. We're the third - fastest growing electorate in the country. Of course under the last National Government we built the Western Belfast Bypass. The sod was turned in 2014 and it opened in 2017. Then we started construction on the northern corridor—actually a highway that's been on the books since the 1960s and it was a National Government that got it under way. That's going to open in 2020. So last year we announced the next stage: the Belfast to Pegasus motorway. Of course the reason I'm bringing it up in this Budget debate is because the Government's stripped out all the money for State highways.I had a feeling we were going to lose this new proposed motorway extension including the Woodend bypass which has been long overdue. We advocated for it and we thought we got it across the line. So I wrote a letter to—oh that's right—the transport Minister the Hon Phil Twyford. And actually the media spoke to him as well—David Hill from the North Canterbury News. He said in his email response to David Hill that one Matt Doocey MP for Waimakariri was being disingenuous was being "oppositional; politicking" and was making it up. He said it was still on track—so I thought "Well he's the Minister; he'll know." But then take this: last week I got invited to the Pegasus and Woodend residents association AGM but of course I was in the House and I couldn't get leave to go down. The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) turned up to that residents group because they were invited to give an update on when the construction would start on the Woodend bypass. The NZTA guy turned up and fair to say he mightn't have been the company man but he turned around and said "The Woodend bypass is off the table. The Woodend bypass is no longer a priority for the Labour Government. The Woodend bypass will not be constructed because the Labour Government's prioritising transport initiatives in main cities." Those were the words of the NZTA and that is the announcement that is going to happen more and more around regional New Zealand. Vital infrastructure that the past National Government committed to in Budget 2017 has been gutted out of the regions just like the short-changing of mental health funding in this Budget of 2018. Shame on that Government."