Kerekere ElizabethDr ELIZABETH KEREKERE (Green): Kia ora. Tēnā koe e te Māngai—Hon Michael Woodhouse: Point of order. I will be seeking another call but I would note that during the point of order that took place the clock did not stop and continued to count down.CHAIRPERSON (Hon Jenny Salesa): I will come back to you right after this call the Hon Michael Woodhouse.Dr ELIZABETH KEREKERE: Tēnā koe. Many thanks to the Minister to the officials who are here. I was a member of the Pae Ora Legislation Committee and I know how much work that you all did on this. It's a huge massive piece of work with massive implications for all of us. Firstly I wanted to speak to a rainbow strategy. Now I have recommended this I have advocated for this—Nicola Grigg: Nothing if not consistent.Dr ELIZABETH KEREKERE: —in many parts of our community. This will be a surprise to people! Many parts of our community advocated through this submission process and have been lobbying me ever since. When I first put up some time ago the Supplementary Order Paper 154 for this I got a lovely letter back from the Minister and I was going to speak to this anyway but I accepted the fact that it wasn't going to be part of this bill. However I come here today and suddenly there's a rural strategy and so I am emboldened to start again. And I just want to acknowledge too about the rural strategy how much we support that and that when our colleagues have raised this in the select committee and through this process—because so many of our people who are Māori Pasifika a range of all of our people who live in rural areas who are most affected by the postcode lottery and who will have the most difficult time in making this new system work without a clear strategy so I'm very thankful. I note that and I want to mihi then to the Labour members that the Minister referred to who advocated for that. But I want to acknowledge my colleagues cross the House. I want to acknowledge the people in the community who actually have incredible expertise incredible knowledge—they're the ones out there doing the work so their advice is something we take very very seriously.So a rainbow strategy. I figure I've got a couple more hours for this to maybe come to being. I've just come out of a webinar Te āniwaniwa takatāpui whānui: Te aronga taera mō ngā rangatahi - Sexual attraction and young people's wellbeing in Youth19". Some of you will be familiar with the Youth2000 series which every few years interviews thousands and thousands of young people—mainly students. Most things we know about young people in this country have come out of that body of work and so the most recent one was in 2019. So this part is one half—kind of the "rainbow report"—of that data and so this is particularly for people who are same-sex multiple-sex attracted or not sure either way. What we saw in that just reiterates every piece of research we have; everything we know about the impacts of discrimination for people with diverse genders sexualities and sex characteristics. But there was an entire section on health and so it's very fresh in my mind: statistics that show—especially for young people but we know that it flows on through other ages; for those who don't feel safe going into a health setting—their identities are not recognised they're not valued and the health conditions that they're presenting with the people don't have the expertise to deal with them. There are in most parts of this country no solid guidelines no strategy for people to work towards. So we have advocated a strategy as in this piece of legislation the main mechanism by which such a thing could be created.I'd like to ask the Minister then if not a strategy and if we take a step down from that what is the solution so that people in Invercargill people in Gisborne people in Wellington Central—when they present into our health services—those GPs those doctors those nurses those counsellors and those allied care health workers know what to do? They know who to call. They know the community leadership that they can tap into. That's what I'd like to ask you to respond to. Kia ora."