Hon ANDREW LITTLE (Minister of Health): Thank you, Madam Chair. I'll just make some sort of opening remarks, if you like. This really is the meat of this legislation, apart from the Hauora Māori Advisory Committee, which is the subject of a different part of this legislation. This sets up the new health entities, Health New Zealand and the Māori Health Authority. These will be the new beasts, if you like, that will be the engine room of our health system, not only providing greater coherence and better coordination across our public health system but also really driving a better equity performance than we've seen in the system. 