Hon Dr DAVID CLARK: I became aware of the acute need for investment to fix up Counties Manukau's buildings and infrastructure very soon after becoming health Minister, and acted quickly to provide it. But this is work that should have been started before the need became acute. Clearly, there has been an ongoing failure to properly monitor the state of our hospitals for many, many years, and other health infrastructure too. It has been a priority for me as health Minister to ensure that we, for the first time, have a clear picture of the state of these assets. We now have this in the form of the National Asset Management Plan's stocktake of critical assets which was released last week. This is crucial information to guide the $10 billion in Crown investment in our hospitals that Treasury says we need over the next decade. I am proud of the fact that, in our first term, this Government is on track to deliver this, with $3.5 billion in investment to date, more than three times as much as the last National Government managed in nine years. But, then again, the previous Government could hardly invest much in our hospitals when it chose to ignore their deteriorating condition completely.