MIRIAM CLEMENTS, THE LOGIC PARTY

MAGGIE BARRY, NATIONAL

Incumbent MP Maggie Barry is in favour of improved rail links in the central city and would like to see money put into another crossing across the Waitemata¯ Harbour.

She said mental health services on offer at the North Shore hospital have improved under her tenure, and especially since 2011, with $25 million invested into mental health Te Puna Waiora.

Barry believes the country is doing its fair share in climate change, with an ambitious target to reduce carbon emissions to under 2005 levels by 2030 under the Paris Agreement signed last year. She also wanted to see an increase in the number of electric vehicles on the road. Miriam Clements wants two new multi-level bridges from the Shore to the city. One would extend from Devonport to Parnell, and the other would divert off of SH1 from Northcote Point to Westhaven. She would deal with mental health by addressing bullying, harassment, stalking, and internet abuse, and would establish a ‘free to all’ public counselling service across the North Shore.

Clements believes the North Shore could become a world leader in clean energy. She wants to institute a sustainability-based international criminal court in the area, making it an epicentre for global sustainable justice.

JOSH HUBBARD, NZ FIRST

Josh Hubbard said when it came to traffic congestions, his party would address immigration to curb the growing number of cars on the road.

He wanted to see a national inquiry into mental health and with greater funding for specialist mental health care providers for District Health Boards.

In particular, he said his party would increase the number of mental health and addiction nurses at DHBs.

Hubbard said his party would work on climate change by investing in a ‘‘UK-Norway’’ model to fund New Zealandbased environmental initiatives like carbon emission reduction.

MATT ISBISTER, TOP

Matt Isbister said the solution to congestion was getting more people out of cars and into public transport. He supported the local board’s vision to create a four-lane Lake Rd with two lanes used for buses and multiple passengers.

Isbister believed New

Zealand’s health system was ’’world class’’, but said his party plans to spend more on prevention and mental health than any other party with a focus on making primary health care services more accessible.

His party will treat the carbon emission trading scheme as a cap-and-trade scheme, with revenue invested into making homes and business more energy efficient.

NICK KEARNEY, ACT

Nick Kearney advocated for urgently building a second harbour crossing, which would be paid for with a toll.

He said his party was confident North Shore residents would pay a small toll to use it, as they did when the original bridge was built. Kearney said his party wanted to address mental health concerns with greater local community services involvement in the care. That would include with more localised and targeted spending in health overall. In terms of climate change, he argued to have a strong environment, a strong economy with innovative business was needed. He said he personally was an advocate of cycleways.

ROMY UDANGA, LABOUR

Romy Udanga said his party’s policy was to commit to both rail and road in a second Waitemata¯ harbour crossing, with light rail to the North Shore included in Labour’s long-term transport plans. He said New Zealand’s health system was in a bad condition, with spiking suicide numbers indicating things were very wrong in New Zealand’s mental health care. He supported Labour’s policy to put a mental health nurse into every school, which would help the situation.

The party would also transition the country into a zero carbon economy, which was not not reliant on fossil fuel, and he believed that better public transport would be part of the solution.