Hon ANDREW LITTLE (Minister of Health): Thank you, Mr Chair, and thank you to Gaurav Sharma for that question. I think last year we announced additional funding for cochlear implants, which means that we can fund an additional, I think, roughly 60 cochlear implants. I have to say that I had an amazing story relayed to me just a few days ago of a person whose 51-year-old brother, who's been profoundly deaf, got a cochlear implant recently, and did so because he wanted to hear the sound of his grandchildren. Because of that additional money put in last year, he had the procedure recently, and as you would imagine, it has profoundly changed his life. She was telling me that she'd got a phone call from him the other day saying he was off to the beach so he could listen to the waves—things that we take for granted. So that is the profound impact that is happening. We have a waiting list of, I think, roughly 240 cochlear implants at the moment in New Zealand. We need to work very hard to reduce that, and we will continue to do so, but being able to do that as one-off extra funding appropriations makes a difference, and we will continue to look for opportunities to make that difference for cochlear implants.