Hon Dr DAVID CLARK: The record investment in DHBs of an extra $3.92 billion over four years will help improve their financial sustainability and clinical delivery. It will also enable them to meet the costs of a growing and ageing population and already agreed wage increases. Ministers have also approved $282.5 million, including $50 million of capital, to deliver an estimated 153,000 planned care procedures such as elective surgery, radiology scans, assessments and follow-ups, and procedures completed in outpatient facilities. Although critical and urgent care continued even under alert level 4, we know that many procedures were delayed. Our hospitals are now returning to a more normal level of service, but it will take time to recover and deal with the backlog.