So here we have a Government who should have stepped up in 2020. We've got a huge wave of mental distress occurring as a result of COVID-19, and we have very little. Yes, a continuation of Budget 2019. But for the points I outline, there's real concern that money is not being spent. Of the $455 million for the new front-line mental health service, only $20 million of that's spent. And what's really concerning is the health Minister will blame the GP practices and he'll blame the workforce. Yet what we do know is New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC) - accredited counsellors who are contracted to DHBs to provide primary care have been told there is no further funding to respond to the growing number of referrals they are getting. That's why Christine Macfarlane from NZAC, the president of the New Zealand Association of Counsellors, came out and called their initiative a total waste of taxpayers' money.