Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thanks Madam Speaker. I'm really delighted to take a call today in this general debate. I am the Labour list MP based in the Bay of Plenty and I thought it was important to begin by just talking about where the Bay of Plenty is. We are in Pāpāmoa. We start in Pāpāmoa going from the Kaituna River Arataki Matapihi Welcome Bay Maungatapu Hairini Tauriko and up to the Kaimais and from the Wairoa River to Te Puna. The reason I thought I should say that is because we do not have the Port of Tauranga in that electorate. However it's a matter that is really important to us in the city. So we're the outer suburbs of the city and it's a great community that I live in and play in.I'm delighted to come here today to talk about the delivery that this Government has been performing. I've been in Parliament for nearly four years and I thought about the reason why I came to Parliament. With your indulgence I'll just talk about that story a little bit. I was managing Tauranga Women's Refuge at the time and one of the reasons I decided—I remember the day that I decided—to come to Parliament if I was lucky enough to represent this country was I had a conversation with a family who had been in a safe house and they were now safe in the community. They were due to leave the safe house but we were unable to find them accommodation. We were unable to find them anywhere in the city to go and the awful decision that came down to me was that I had to evict that family into homelessness in order to get them far enough up the list in 2016 to get on to a waiting list to get into a home. So essentially they had a week at a time where they would be taken care of in a hotel.That family chose to go back to the violence and I felt morally corrupt. I felt morally corrupt having to give that choice to that family. So I came to Parliament because I was so utterly utterly devastated by the state of housing in this country. As a consequence I'm really proud to stand here today and talk about what we are delivering for this country. We have a long way to go.Nicola Willis: Biggest waiting list ever.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: We have a long way to go. The biggest wait-list ever? At least we can get people on a wait-list. In my time when I was working people living in wooden shacks with floors—they couldn't even get on the list because they had coverage. Anyway 8000 extra warm dry homes this Government has built. That is 74337 public housing places between 2017 and 2021—8121 more homes. This is a Government that is doing their very best—doing their very best—to help the people of this country.One of the things that I think is really really important to talk about is the fact that we have also increased—tripled in fact—the community housing providers: $361 million. That's three times what that Government was funding. This is about us looking at a problem—a wicked difficult intergenerational problem—and doing everything that we possibly can in order to fix that. I think that it is something that we can be proud of. There is more to do. There is always more to do in this matter but we are making the effort and I think that we are doing what is right for this country. We are concerned for the people of this country and we are absolutely—absolutely—committed to fixing this wicked problem. We are delivering for New Zealanders. We're doing our very best at a difficult time but we are doing extremely well for the people of this country.