O'Rourke DenisDENIS O'ROURKE (NZ First): New Zealand First will vote in favour of proposed Part 3 of the bill as tabled by the Labour Party and will do so with considerable enthusiasm because it deals with developments and the development of affordable houses. The Minister for Building and Housing does not seem to understand this and Gerry Brownlee especially does not understand it—that this is what people want and it is not what they are getting under this Government. This proposed Part 3 is completely consistent with New Zealand First policy in contrast with National's vacuous claim that it has a comprehensive housing strategy when in fact it has none—just a litany of failed policies including the special housing areas which have delivered only 1300 houses over the last 3 years. All of that shows that this National Government is just a bunch of dead-heads do-nothings and dripping dipsticks when it comes to housing.This new part is instead exactly what this country needs—exactly that this country needs.Hon Gerry Brownlee: Double the number of houses by doubling the number of letterboxes!DENIS O'ROURKE: What this country does not need is a Minister like the failed Gerry Brownlee in every portfolio that he has got. What New Zealand First wants is a housing commission. We want a housing commission reporting to this house so that it can carry out the long-term strategic planning that has never really happened for housing in this country. We want to see that happen well-resourced with people who know what they are doing who are out of the political arena and who can do it objectively and effectively. We also want that body to establish a company which we call Kiwi Housing" and we would want that company to buy developed land sell it on easy terms or sell already-built houses to the public. That is exactly what we want the Government to do and we want that to happen because we know that the private development market in this country cannot cope with the current situation. It has not been able to cope for the last several years yet this Government says: "Let's hand more and more of the responsibility for that over to them." That is all it is doing—nothing more. That is absolutely not enough.What New Zealand First targets as housing for the whole of New Zealand but especially for Auckland is 20000 houses per year. I am not just doing one-upmanship over the Labour Party; this is based on my reading of what is required under the Auckland Unitary Plan. Over 7 years that would amount to 140000 houses and the Auckland Unitary Plan indicates that that is the scale of housing that is actually required. A target of 20000 houses a year by the Government with direct Government investment is actually completely achievable. That Minister in the chair Nick Smith does not think so. That is because he is not capable of it and neither is his whole Government but anyone with any ability and any determination and the right approach to housing would be capable of it.When I look at the last part of this proposed Part 3 I can see that it does some very important things in terms of what it is about and that is to ensure that houses are affordable. I am not going to get into the argument about how you define affordability because all we need to do is ensure that the new entities I have spoken of would ensure that houses actually get built effectively by the Government and by direct investment in homes and in homes that are on modest-sized sections—modest-sized homes—and for therefore modest prices. Not only that there need to be mechanisms for people to be able to buy those homes directly on easy terms. That is also in New Zealand First's policy and it should be the sort of thing that we would see happen under the provisions for proposed new section 50U "Corporation to manage affordable housing development" under this proposed new part of this bill.Other parties do have comprehensive and actually effective housing plans and strategies which this Government does not have. That Minister the "Minister of Homelessness" in this country should step down and the whole Government should get out of Government in this country and let others do what we can do."