INGRID LEARY (Labour—Taieri): I'd like to talk about ambulance wait times, particularly in rural electorates. Emergency workers talk about the "golden hour", which is the critical time between when someone has an accident or gets injured and when they can receive medical treatment, and that is the hour that makes the difference, often, between life or death. We've had a lot of press lately in the Otago Daily Times, and I've had people come to me, as their MP, saying that they've had accidents, they've been waiting for up to 2½ hours, sometimes ambulances don't come, and in 2013, in my electorate of Taieri—in Kaitangita, which is a rural area—we had a 69-year-old woman who died waiting for an ambulance for more than an hour and a half for a 12-minute ride. So that's causing a great deal of anxiety in my electorate. It is characterised by the fact we have a lot of seniors and a lot of disabled people. 