44640 (2024). Ingrid Leary to the Minister for Mental Health

44640 (2024). Ingrid Leary to the Minister for Mental Health: Does the Minister agree with Mental health peer support supervisor and trainer Fiona Clapham Howard that the Gumboot initiative was more like a matchmaker connecting youth to a private counsellor, which meant all the risk was held with that counsellor and not the charity; if not, why not?

Hon Matt Doocey: I am advised that the Governments investment through Budget 24 will enable Gumboot Friday to give more than 15,000 young New Zealanders to access free mental health counselling services each year