Sosene Lemauga LydiaLEMAUGA LYDIA SOSENE (Labour—Māngere): Thank you Madam Speaker. It's a real pleasure to rise and speak against this bill. Because the Government has signalled its strong support for landlords it has chosen to ignore the long-standing work that Labour had delivered under our previous Government. But instead it's chosen to make the choice that it will be rewarding landlords with $2.9 billion—and you would think that's a sufficient incentive; it goes further with this bill because it weakens the ability for tenants.Many of our tenants across the motu will be very worried that the Residential Tenancies Amendment Act doesn't provide the hope and also will add the stock availability for housing choices for people who are still on that rental ladder. In fact reading through the bill it will not provide a single rental property in the private rental market and it won't help tenants and I'm going to just continue to stress that point. It actually weakens the ability for tenants. It provides them with uncertainty. Tenants across the board who don't have the current means financial means to step on to the property ladder; it makes that dream go further. The no-cause termination proposals are not about helping tenants it actually proposes the opposite.We heard Minister Seymour say the policy will fix the problem for tenants but in actual fact due to landlords being given the ability that within pet clauses that will actually help them. And the Minister quoted the rationale of these proposed changes that tenants will have the required benefit and a better incentive for landlords would be to negotiate and critique and be able to offer their tenants or new tenants to be able to critique them because they can now come in with a pet. We don't oppose that and it offers that closeness or option for that particular family or tenant.We also heard Minister Bishop announce recently that the changes implemented quoting sensible pro-tenant changes to help increase the supply of rental properties. The reintroduction of the 90-day no-cause terminations for periodic changes means landlords can now go back to ending a periodic tenancy agreement without providing a single reason. Now that's not going to assist many of the tenants across the motu. What does that do for the tenant? What pathway of certainty does it provide for families who are in a vulnerable situation?I just want to quickly talk about a local example in Māngere. In my rohe in my electorate there are over 4000 Kāinga Ora properties which provide housing choices for over 16000 tenants. In the private rental market there is also a number of thousands and we've seen some new dwellings of properties in our local area. But we also have other pressures of cost of living. And we've got a number of school principals that I have spoken to recently who are worried about tamariki being moved all over the motu because of the situation and the new bill. So it provides a myriad of issues for people in my local area.I'm just going to quickly talk about an example of a tenant who moved into a property who didn't because English was his second language. These are the types of problems that are caused when a tenant doesn't fully understand the obligation. The landlord had been quite kind and given him the opportunity to miss one week of rent but that's $600.This bill will not give the confidence for that particular tenant because the landlord at any time can choose to end that tenancy without any specific reason. Labour opposes this bill.