Dr DEBORAH RUSSELL (Labour—New Lynn): As chair of the Pae Ora Legislation Committee, I'd like to report on some of the submissions that we received in the process of hearing the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Bill. We received 4,665 submissions, of which 178 were from groups rather than from individuals. On a straight numerical basis, most of the submissions were opposed to the bill, but the great majority of those submissions opposed to the bill came from individuals, and they were single-issue submissions—I'll refer to those later on. But professional bodies; medics; lobby groups; population groups; the Asian, the Māori, the Pasifika groups; the rainbow groups; the disability groups; and so on expressed support for the bill. There was overwhelming support for the bill from professional groups, from medical groups, and from the workers in the health system. They see the need for change, and they know that the time for change has come and they support this bill. 