Guy NathanHon NATHAN GUY (National—Ōtaki): Well that was a fascinating contribution from that member. It sounded like a general debate speech and she was imploring people to get out in the local body elections and vote. This is a rather interesting bill; the Kāinga Ora—Homes and Communities Bill. It went through the Environment Committee and I'm now sitting on the Environment Committee and it's a very interesting committee. But when I came onto the committee this bill had gone through. So I've done a little bit of research for the House so that those members over the other side that have been given speaking notes from the Labour research unit actually know what they're talking about. Now this bill creates a Crown entity. It received about 86 submissions so it's not a big bill. It's really a nothing bill; 44 submitters were heard in person and a lot of the community organisations who are providing that very important community housing were concerned about this bill that it was going to deal to them. But they learnt in the select committee it's not. So they left thinking What is really the purpose of this bill?" Well the purpose of this bill the nub of the issue allows the Government to get hold of Housing New Zealand's balance sheet to use it so that they can expand the portfolio. What we've heard this afternoon is they've bagged the National Party "The National Government didn't do enough in housing" and they've gone on and built I think it's about 2000-odd State houses in the last couple of years. A lot of those were started under the National Government.Of course what you don't hear from the other side of the House this afternoon this two-word phrase; you don't hear KiwiBuild mentioned at all. Of course when Labour campaigned they campaigned saying they were going to build—all their heads go down—100000 homes. Of course we know that that hasn't occurred at all. Last count: 286 houses have been built under the Labour coalition Government. So over the last two years just under 300 houses have been built under the banner of KiwiBuild which is now termed "KiwiFail". So what you haven't heard this afternoon from the Government benches is anyone talking about KiwiBuild because it's such an embarrassment and disaster.I have heard a contribution this afternoon about the Government's vision for reforming the Resource Management Act (RMA). Well actually we did quite a bit in our nine years of Government—Hon Andrew Little: Ha ha! Rubbish—absolute rubbish.Hon NATHAN GUY: And Andrew Little pipes up. I was waiting for him to take the bait. Thank you Minister for taking the bait. What Andrew Little is not aware of is that we reformed the RMA particularly to call in projects of national significance to a board of inquiry for that process to occur within nine months. For those people in my electorate who are commuting out of Wellington this evening through to the wonderful Kāpiti coast they'll be driving on the Kāpiti Expressway; a project that was called in through the reform of the RMA and that went through a consenting process of nine months. My commuters—Hon Andrew Little: It had to be resealed twice. Hon NATHAN GUY: —Mr Little—will be delighted to drive on Transmission Gully which will open next year as part of the reforms that the National Government did to the RMA. What do we hear from the other side from the Government? Well they're going to reform the RMA. But hold on it's a working group—it's a working group. We wait for No. 312 working group to report back and that won't occur until 2021. So in summary this is really a nothing bill. It is confusing it's going to create a Crown entity it's not going to do much and the big issue for New Zealand is to ensure that houses are built. This isn't going to deliver any more houses because the private sector are calling out to the Government to make some changes particularly to the RMA and we're going to get into the election campaign—here's my bet—in the next sort of eight or nine months and nothing will have happened under this Government to the RMA. They won't have reached out to Judith Collins who's leading the charge for us. She smashed Phil Twyford on KiwiBuild. We're doing all the work so that we're not going to be in the position in 2020 if we get there in 2020 where we wouldn't have done the homework. It wouldn't be nine years of doing nothing and not supporting our changes on the RMA. They've been there two years and done nothing. This is a nothing bill and we don't support it."