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Is the $61.6 million investment, announced in late 2025 for crisis recovery cafés and peer support in emergency departments, additional to funding allocated in Budget 2025; if so, from which appropriation or contingency has this funding been drawn? and 8 other questions

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Ingrid Leary

Member for Taieri · Labour Party

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  • 7064

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    Is the $61.6 million investment, announced in late 2025 for crisis recovery cafés and peer support in emergency departments, additional to funding allocated in Budget 2025; if so, from which appropriation or contingency has this funding been drawn?

  • 7065

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    If not additional to Budget 2025 funding, was the $61.6 million announced for crisis response services, already included within Vote Health appropriations in Budget 2025; if so, under which specific initiative?

  • 7066

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    Was the $61.6 million investment announced in late 2025 for crisis recovery cafés and peer support in emergency departments appropriated as part of Budget 2025; if so, why was it not identified as a discrete initiative in the published Budget 2025 documents?

  • 7067

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    Does the $61.6 million announced in late 2025 for crisis recovery cafés and peer support in emergency departments represent new funding on top of Budget 2025 health appropriations, or funding already allocated within Budget 2025; if already allocated, why was it presented as a new investment?

  • 7068

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    On what date was the $61.6 million investment for crisis recovery cafés and peer support in emergency departments formally appropriated?

  • 7069

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    Under which Vote, Output Class, and Appropriation does the $61.6 million crisis response services funding sit?

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  • 7070

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    What amount of the $61.6 million for crisis response services, if any, is funded from contingency or reprioritised baseline funding within Vote Health?

  • 7184

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    Has the $61.6 million announced for crisis response services, increased the total Vote Health expenditure, beyond the amounts appropriated in Budget 2025; if so, by how much?

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  • 7307

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    Did any Budget lines lose funding, if any, in order to assist the 61M funding announced in November 2025 for crisis response workers and services; if so, from which Budget lines, and by how much funding?

    Original response/referral lodged:

Answered by

Hon Matt Doocey

Member for Waimakariri · National Party · Minister for Mental Health

Answer

The $61.6 million investment to deliver a better crisis response that I announced on 5 November 2025 is funded from the Vote Health uplift for the 2025/26 financial year applied to the mental health and addiction ringfence (captured in the Mental Health Output Class). This funding is the result of the Budget 2024 initiative and part of a three-year uplift for Health New Zealand. The funding for the $61.6 million investment sits across the Delivering Hospital and Specialist Services and Delivering Primary, Community, Public and Population Health Services appropriations. Boosting crisis responses was identified as a new priority for the 2025/26 financial year within the previous Budget 2024 uplift initiative, aligned with the intent of the initiative to grow frontline health services.