Coffey TāmatiTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour): Mr Speaker thank you for the call. This has been a labour of love actually working on Saturdays and listening to submitters present. I echo the thoughts of everybody else here who's talked about the depth of experience that came forward in those submissions. Yes this is a truncated process and yes this is a quick time frame but actually the people who really care about this space they fronted up. They wanted some time in front of the committee and we gave them their time and we asked them questions and we made sure that we took all of those recommendations and we put it into this report. So I'm proud to stand here and talk about this report and the various measures that we've taken as a committee to make sure that we're navigating through a really decent piece of legislation.Māori are at the sharp end of the housing insecurity spectrum and it's for this reason and with that lens that I've participated in this. I look to my own hometown of Rotorua and I see the complete housing supply that we don't have the real need to be able to build more houses and the real need to be able to also build in an appropriate cultural way too. I want to expand on that just a little bit because our planning laws here in New Zealand they're like everything else that was built in this country: they're from a very colonial paradigm. If we look back to how Māori used to live actually it was many to a section. That was called a papa kāinga and actually we saw less and less of those in all of the big State housing projects that have been built in the past. It was one family one home. But that was indeed a time and place back in New Zealand's history where we thought a little bit differently. I'd like to think that we're a little bit more educated and a little bit more intelligent now and what this bill does is it actually opens up the opportunity for multigenerational living. That's what this does and I use my own example. Back home I live upstairs; I've got my mum and dad living downstairs. Our son gets to hang out with his nan and his koro regularly. On a daily basis he gets to go and check in with them. I'm a big fan of intergenerational living in the same space. When I go back home and I talk to our whānau Māori and they say We need more houses. How can we make sure that I've got my nan and my koro living with me and my moko over here who needs a house as well. How do we make sure that we do that on our land?" What this bill is going to do is it's going to open it up for those whānau that are in our tier 1 councils—so our big cities—all around the country but it's also opening the door to some tier 2 and tier 3 councils that choose to go through the process as well.We had a really strong submission from the Rotorua Lakes Council who sat next to the Te Arawa Lakes Trust who sat next to Te Tatau o Te Arawa partnership board and together they said "We are facing such an acute housing shortage in this city that yes we really really want to be included in these changes. This is going to be great for big cities but it's also going to be great for our city too because we know what the sharp end of the housing insecurity spectrum looks like. We know what homelessness looks like. We're rich in land but we need a bit of help with the planning laws to be able to enable housing that is culturally appropriate and able to have whānau living in the same space."I'm not going to talk too long on this. Suffice to say that we did put a lot of effort into this and I want to again echo the bipartisan nature of doing this. It's a problem for the whole country. Housing is still the number one issue—housing and COVID-19. But housing is still one of those top issues that we face as a country all around Aotearoa. So this bill can't come too soon and for that reason I absolutely commend it to the House."