Upston LouiseHon LOUISE UPSTON (National—Taupō): Thank you Madam Chair. I'm really pleased to rise and speak in this committee stage on the title clause because it is somewhat of a mystery. As I have listened to my colleagues' contributions in this debate—Hon Andrew Little: You're listening to the wrong people.Hon LOUISE UPSTON: —actually it gets murkier and murkier and murkier as the debate continues. As that member that just interjected Andrew Little—actually if I was him I would be deeply deeply embarrassed. I'd be deeply deeply embarrassed about a bill that is entitled the Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill (No 2)—and my learned colleague has explained the reason for the number 2—but actually it should be a big fat zero because at the end of the day this bill does zero. So I'm just a little confused about why they would bother calling it the Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill (No 2). They could have renamed it the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act is So Great We've Got Nothing to Add Bill" because that in reality is what it is. Or the title could've been the "Healthy Homes Guarantee Act (No 2) That Doesn't Really Exist But it Sounds Good Bill" because that's exactly all this is attempting to do. So as my colleagues have said this is just an exercise in spin. It's a bit sad for a new Government not to have legislation to put into the House—real meaningful Government legislation. They're so desperate they have to pick up members' bills that have been languishing in the ballot that have been absolutely stripped bare. I don't even know actually how you can call this bill the same given that the Supplementary Order Paper 1 that's been put forward strips out anything meaningful that happened to be in the Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill (No 2).So in terms of the title it is somewhat of a mystery. It's a mystery to the members in the Opposition. Clearly we had in our time in Government a huge commitment to ensuring and improving the quality of rental homes that New Zealanders live in. As my colleague the Hon Dr Nick Smith talked about the reality is that the number of the homes that our Government ensured were insulated over our period of time I think is extraordinary.I will actually take you back to the early days. Some of that was with the agreement of the Greens. The Green Party actually should be quite embarrassed today. They should be quite embarrassed at a bill that is called the Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill (No 2) that actually does nothing. It's actually probably a step backwards from what we agreed with them when we were in Government in 2008 and actually produced tangible real results for New Zealanders and those that are renting. We have agreed that we wanted to see the standard of the homes that people were renting improve and that was absolutely delivered and actually comes into effect kind of on the same date as this one is proposed which is another reason why we're not sure why you'd even bother with this piece of legislation that does absolutely nothing other than to just say you can turn up to the House and have a piece of legislation that you're debating.So another name could be instead of the Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill (No 2) "Fill the Order Paper with Something Because We've Got Nothing Else To Debate Bill".Matt Doocey: That's right—(No 2).Hon LOUISE UPSTON: That would be (No 2). They might actually get to (No 3) or (No 4) or (No 5). So it is absolutely just as my colleague has suggested an exercise in window dressing because there is absolutely no substance in this bill. I would ask the Minister in the chair Phil Twyford to actually go into a bit more detail in terms of why this is the Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill (No 2) because there is absolutely nothing in here that qualifies any one of those three main words. About "Healthy"—how is that described? What is the standard? Where would you find it? "Homes"—I think you know most of us could kind of figure out what that is. But actually given the lack of depth or anything of substance in this bill one could apply it to just about anything. In terms of a "Guarantee" I think that is totally and absolutely overpromising and I know that this Government—[Time expired]"