As members will be aware, not everyone is in favour of the proposed approach, and I'd like to firstly address the concerns raised by many submitters and in media comment that the reforms are separatist and create a two-tier system. This is completely untrue. I absolutely and wholeheartedly agree that this should not be a two-tier health system. But sadly, that is exactly what we have at the moment, in practice, and that is exactly why we are reforming it. People experience unjustifiable differences in access to services and health outcomes because of where they live, their ethnicity, or other circumstances. We need to create a system that, at its core, recognises and addresses that inequity so that not just some but all New Zealanders have the opportunity and support to live healthy and full lives.