And what has been the Minister's response? To demean and disparage the hard-working health workforce, to tell nursing organisations that they speak with "forked tongue", to tell experienced ED doctors that their data cannot be trusted, to tell ICU doctors that they have the figures wrong. This is what we are hearing from the current Minister. We know how we got here. We got here through incompetence in the first two years. The waiting lists were going up, ED wait times were struggling in the first two years, even before COVID arrived, and then, over that period—March 2020, roughly through for a year—we failed to build ICU beds. The safety valve, or the buffer, if you like, for ICU beds is waiting lists. When you want to protect the health system, you cancel waiting lists, and that's what happened. A year ago, a workforce warning letter from 20 DHBs was ignored, and here we are now with health reforms and the distraction and redirection of financing. That's how we come to be here. 