Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. It is my pleasure to speak as the last speaker in this general debate. I actually want to start with a quote from our Prime Minister Bill English and it is about social investment: intervening early to help the most at-risk people lead better lives and become more independent." That is the social investment philosophy which then begs the question: who is the most at risk?I would like to highlight some information from Youthline that was presented in 2016. What Youthline told us was that 150 young people a week are missing out on help. That is 7800 children and young people who are calling Youthline every year who are missing out on help. Those who are suffering from extreme depression have risen from 6909 to 14996. That is a 117 percent increase. Those who are suicidal have gone from 7241 to 8291. That is a 15 percent increase in young people who are suicidal.Interestingly enough if you look at who supports Youthline 60 percent of its funding comes from grants and philanthropic donors 20 percent from partners and sponsors and 20 percent from general fund-raising. The Government is not mentioned there. I would have thought that people who ring Youthline are actually those most at risk. And why is it relevant? It is relevant because 579 New Zealanders between July 2015 and June 2016 committed suicide. New Zealand has a shocking suicide rate and some like Nicky Stevens and Shaun Gray unfortunately died in mental health wards within our district health boards.We have got a huge problem and it seems that the Government will only intervene if you fit its criteria. Markers for being at risk from its perspective of its social investment are that you have some sort of Child Youth and Family involvement; that you are supported by a benefit from birth; that you have a parent in prison or on community service; and that you have a mother who has no formal qualifications. Well I wonder how many of those 7800 children and young people who ring Youthline every year whose needs are not met meet that criteria. At the moment the Government does not care. It does not care about those 7800 young people not receiving the support that they need.I want to highlight ActionStation—particularly Marianne Elliott—and its people's review of the public mental health system. It actually launched it on 5 September last year and it launched it because it wanted to find out about people's experiences of our mental health system—family's experiences people themselves and mental health professionals. It had over 500 people take the time to make a submission to say how the mental health system treated them. For 93 percent of those 500 people it was a shocking experience it was a terrible experience and their needs were not met.What did some of them say about that? Well actually one of the women who was contacted Lou—whom we all know; some of us are Facebook friends of hers—said that she got some pharmacological support. They gave her some mental health drugs but she was offered no counselling and got no support. I know that in her experience—and she has shared this publicly—there were times when she wanted to end her own life. She ended up at the Wellington public hospital and waited for hours on end before she had access to a mental health professional. Lou is still with us but she is with us I believe because of people who are passionate about the mental health service in New Zealand. The people from ActionStation and the people who have participated in the people's review are standing up and making a stand and holding this Government to account.I think that our suicide statistics are something that is a national shame and it is a shame that we continue to ignore. I agree that we should have and we should reinstate as the Mason report recommended in 1996 the Mental Health Commission. We disestablished that commission in 2012. We ended up with the Mental Health Commissioner who is attached to the Health and Disability Commissioner and to be fair to him he is looking at individual cases. But that is not reforming the system. Thank you.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."