An extended family member, a friend, a work colleague, and a school mate; they're the people that I've lost to suicide. Every person in this room will have their stories. Every person listening and watching from their houses and other places around New Zealand will also have their stories of being bereaved by suicide. The suicide statistics in New Zealand are confronting. Sadly, we lost provisionally 654 Kiwis last year. What's confronting is the statistics that sit behind that: 150,000 Kiwis every year think about taking their life, 50,000 Kiwis make a suicide plan, 20,000 Kiwis attempt to take their own life. These are the harsh truths behind suicide in New Zealand, yet there is no reason why New Zealand can't have one of the lowest suicide rates in the world. There's no reason why we can't have one of the highest rates of mental wellbeing in the world. One of those contributing factors to that solution will be political will, and that's what we are debating here today.