Young Jonathan: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeYoung Jonathan: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 10 April 2014. Volume:697;Page:17169. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]8.JONATHAN YOUNG (National—New Plymouth)to the Minister of Energy and Resources: What update can he give on the Government’s Warm Up New Zealand home insulation programmes?Hon SIMON BRIDGES (Minister of Energy and Resources):I am delighted to announce that 250000 homes have been insulated since 2009 under the two Government programmes Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart and Warm Up New Zealand: Healthy Homes. Under the Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart programme 238000 homes have been insulated; it had an original target of 188500 homes. Already 12000 homes have been insulated under the Warm Up New Zealand: Healthy Homes project which started late last year. I want to thank third-party funders insulation service providers and local authorities which have worked together with the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority to help make these programmes such a stunning success.Jonathan Young: What reports has the Minister seen on the success of the Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart programme?Hon SIMON BRIDGES: I saw a report late last year from the co-leader of the Green Party that said: “Heat Smart is a Green success story.” I would like to thank my friends in the Green Party for supporting the Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart programme developed in 2009 which is helping keep homes warmer and drier. It is telling that the Green Party’s biggest success ever has come with the National Government despite propping—Mr SPEAKER: Order! That is unnecessary to the answer.Jonathan Young: What reports has the Minister seen on reducing electricity bills?Hon SIMON BRIDGES: I have seen one report promising to bring power prices down. I have seen another very close in time promising to just limit the growth in power price rises which is of course exactly what this Government has done. Both were from David Cunliffe so with his flip-flopping it may be a blessing—Mr SPEAKER: Order! That is enough for that answer.Phil Twyford: What percentage of the homes insulated under the Warm Up New Zealand: Heat Smart and Warm Up New Zealand: Healthy Homes programmes are private rental properties given that the Bryan Perry report shows that 50 percent of children growing up below the poverty line are living in cold and damp private rentals?Hon SIMON BRIDGES: I am happy to give the member a percentage in writing. I can tell him that more than 32000 rental properties have already been insulated and under this new scheme—and I have been and visited a home in Māngere that was a rental that is being insulated as well—that is continuing.Te Ururoa Flavell: Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. Kia ora tātou. What progress has been made on achieving the milestones negotiated with the Māori Party in its relationship accord to target 20000 low-income homes for home insulation and ensure that every State house built before 1978 that can be practically insulated will be insulated?Hon SIMON BRIDGES: Can I firstly thank the Māori Party for its input in the development of the Warm Up New Zealand: Healthy Homes programme. I am pleased to say that we have met both those milestones negotiated with the Māori Party and in fact under the two Warm Up New Zealand programmes we have insulated 110000 low-income homes.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I seek leave to table the Māori Party’s Warm Up New Zealand policy that relates to Ngati Porou and Ngāpuhi the two warmest areas where Māoris live.Mr SPEAKER: Order! We are not going to get into the process of tabling other political parties’ manifestos.