Seymour DavidDAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): One of my greatest motivations for increasing ACT's polling is to overtake the Māori Party so that I will not have such a hard musical act to follow every time I speak in the adjournment debate each year. I would like to thank a number of people around the parliamentary precinct—even ICT—including the library; the clerks; and yourself Mr Speaker for your judicious judgment over the House along with the deputies and assistants that you have. I would like to thank the parliamentary security and all of those who support us doing our day-to-day work.I would particularly like to thank my own team here in Wellington and also our team in Auckland who have worked so hard to serve the people of the Epsom electorate and help me to discharge the duties that I have had in education in regulatory reform and here in Parliament. I would like to thank the Ministry of Education and Treasury for the support that they have given me in my under-secretarial roles and I would like to thank my colleagues around Parliament—even the Opposition for trying to hold the Government to account and whose members have come here with the best of intentions and have been a lot of fun to work with and against at different times. Good luck to you.I would particularly like to thank my colleagues on this side of the House: Te Ururoa Flavell Marama Peter and all of my colleagues; John Key Bill English and all of the other National Ministers for all of the work that we have been able to do together to make New Zealand a better place. By and large it has been a fantastic time to work together. I would like to acknowledge Hekia Parata who is here today and whom I worked with most closely on partnership schools kura hourua the policy of which I am most proud of all. I would like to thank the press gallery for their superb reporting on all of ACT's excellent policies and would like to encourage them to keep doing it for another 5 weeks with renewed vigour and volume.I would like to thank the people of the Epsom electorate because there is no greater honour than being elected by your neighbours and sent to Wellington to represent their interests. I hope to the people in Epsom listening at home that you are happy with the job that I have done and I will be coming to see you on the doorstep in the next 5 weeks just to see about a wee extension of time for another 3 years.I would also like to thank the ACT Party—all of those people who have stuck with me a single rookie MP re-establishing a party that has had its challenges but that I think everyone here will acknowledge is looking better stabler and stronger than it has for a very long time. I cannot wait to take that proposition to the voters up and down New Zealand this year.The theme of our campaign this year is Own Your Future" and it alludes to the No. 1 issue in this campaign which is housing. Old "Mr Mussolini" over here thinks that housing is a problem because of immigration. Well there are people on the other side of the House who are concerned about income inequality; they are concerned really about housing. The fact of the matter is that no matter which side of the political divide you find yourself on the numbers do not lie. Nick Smith gets up in this House—and I admire his tenacity—and tries to persuade the people that we are actually in the middle of a record building boom when the practical reality is that the number of residential units consented in the last year is half what it was at New Zealand's real peak in 1974 when we built twice as many homes per capita without nail guns without half of the technology that we had today and also without any of the red tape regulation and lack of infrastructure funding that holds back the construction of housing in New Zealand today.If we really want as someone said earlier for Jack to be as good as his master and if we really want people to be able to have the security and the access to a secure future and to own their future then we have to accept that the market as it is currently regulated is hamstrung and has been unable to deliver houses that people want in locations they can get to at prices they can afford. The only way that we are going to deliver that is to fundamentally reform the Resource Management Act—in fact reform has not worked; we have to replace it.The problem we have had in this Parliament is summed up in a conversation I had with John Key. I said: "John when are we going to reform the RMA?".Hon Simon Bridges: Sir John to you sunshine!DAVID SEYMOUR: John as he was then—thanks Gerry. Sir John as he is now said to me: "Well you know we've got 59 votes and you've got 1. Do you know anyone else in Parliament who might be keen to do substantial reform of the Resource Management Act?". So we went to Labour. I once said to Andrew Little: "We need to reform the RMA. This could be your smacking moment. You could cross the House give the Government the votes and make New Zealand a better place." Well Andrew Little never took advantage of that—so much for him.Winston Peters said he would give the votes but the problem with Winston Peters is that he is the best Opposition politician this country has ever seen and the worst governing politician this country has ever seen: sacked from three Cabinets by three different Prime Ministers voted out of two electorates so far and the third electorate has not had a chance yet—but do not worry the people of Northland it is only 36 days away. So he could not help because fundamentally he cannot be trusted to do what he says he is going to do.Our colleagues in the Māori Party seem to believe it is more important to be consulted about someone else building a house than to have one for yourself—and that is a shame. Peter Dunne told us that Sir Geoffrey Palmer told him that the principles of the RMA are "sacrosanct" and we could not reform it. So where does that leave us if we want to reform the biggest handbrake on this economy and the biggest constraint on building the homes that we all know New Zealanders want to build and need to build? The only way that you are going to get substantial reform of the underlying regulation that has stopped us building the homes that New Zealanders want and need is to give your party vote to the ACT Party. It is not a political conjecture; it is just a matter of fact. Going around the House looking at people's positions counting up the numbers—we can count and if we want to be able to count to 61 on RMA reform the only safe vote is to vote for the ACT Party—not to reform it but to replace it so that a country that has one of the lowest population densities on the planet will be able to use that land for the benefit of the next generation building the homes that every other generation has enjoyed.There is one other issue where the ACT Party is the only credible vote and that is on the issue of education. Partnership schools kura hourua up and down this country in Taupō in Hawke's Bay in Rotorua in Auckland in Northland and in Hamilton are changing kids' lives for the better. The Opposition has spent so much time opposing them that I cannot work out any more why it is so opposed to success and greater opportunity for the kids in New Zealand who need it most.There is a theme here. If we want Jack to be as good as his master—as someone said earlier in this debate—if you want equal opportunity for all New Zealanders to be their best the free markets work pretty well. Poor people in New Zealand do not lack for electronics or cars or clothing or even food—all of those things that we provide on the free market are widely available. What the poorest people in New Zealand need and lack is a warm dry home at a price they can afford and in a location where they want to be and a world-class education regardless of where that location might happen to be. And only the ACT Party is saying that we actually want people to be more equal and have more equal opportunity but the way to do it is not going to be more Government taxes more politicians with grand Government schemes more regulations more "we know best"—it is actually going to be to set New Zealanders free with more opportunity more flexibility lighter regulation and a greater range of options in education.Mr Speaker if you missed any of that please consider purchasing my new book Own Your Future which sets out these ideas and many more in a very readable 189 pages and Mr Speaker I look forward to seeing you back here bright and early after 23 September."