11. Question No. 11—HousingNICOLA WILLIS (National) to the Minister of HousingQuestion No. 11—Housing11. NICOLA WILLIS (National) to the Minister of Housing: How on a scale of 1 to 10 does she rate the Government's delivery of its housing policies and commitments?Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Housing): The member will need to be more specific. On her scale is 10 the best? As in this Government has delivered 10 times more affordable houses through its programmes than the previous National Government delivered through the special housing areas. Or does she mean that one is the best ranking? As in our Government ranks No. 1 in the number of building consents ever seen in New Zealand which contrasts with the record of the previous Government when annual consents almost halved after the global financial crisis. But then there are other numbers that are way off the 1 to 10 chart like the 7863 public housing places delivered since we became Government—the most in a generation. Or is it the number of apprentices in the building and construction sector: 22760 in May 2021 compared with 12560 in May 2017? But we don't claim perfection. We know that there is way more work to do after nine years of inaction under the previous Government but we have an extensive work programme under way. There is no quick fix; what is needed is a Government committed—SPEAKER: Order! Order! Order! I think the member has addressed the question.Nicola Willis: How many of the 16000 new KiwiBuild homes promised for delivery in the first three years of the programme have been built since the official count began on 1 July 2018?Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: The member knows well that the KiwiBuild programme was reset in 2019 when I became the Minister. But I can tell that member that it is 10 times the number of houses for affordable homeownership delivered in the three and a half years that we have been in Government than the previous National Government delivered over nine years in Government.Nicola Willis: By what date does she anticipate the Government delivering the 1000 KiwiBuild homes it promised to build in the first year of the policy?Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: I think the member needs to look at her questions. That is a reset programme; it does not have that target. But I will invite the member to have a look at the dashboard that is publicly available on the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development site that we have built a thousand KiwiBuild houses; they have been sold. This is 10 times the number of homes for affordable homeownership than the previous Government managed over nine years.Nicola Willis: Can she confirm that the Government's biggest current KiwiBuild project of 176 homes at Ormiston Rise has gone into receivership and by what date will those homes be completed?Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: The member has previously asked questions about that and we've already had this discussion on the floor of this House. So the answer is: yes the 173 homes—I think off the top of my head—will be delayed that that project is being worked through and everybody is hopeful that those homes will still be delivered.Nicola Willis: Does she think that Government housing policies are delivering when there are four times as many at-risk people on the State house waiting list as there were when the Government came to office?Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: At the risk of repeating the answer from the primary question which I'm sure would test the Chair's patience late on a Thursday afternoon I do believe this is a Government delivering because this is a Government that is finally building some public houses. The previous National Government not only did not build houses but it flogged them off so after nine years in Government we ended up with 1500 fewer public houses than they started with. That party should hang its head in shame.Nicola Willis: Will she apologise to New Zealanders for the Government's complete failure to deliver on its commitment to build 16000 KiwiBuild houses by today and if not why not?Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS: I think what that member has to realise is that sometimes in politics—and I think members of her party should probably take note of this—one of the difficult things to do when you get something wrong is to admit it. That is what we did with KiwiBuild: we reset it and we have been delivering. What I will continually apologise to New Zealanders for is the fact that we had a National Government who for nine years delivered nothing in public housing.