1. Building and Construction Social Housing and Transport Ministers—ConfidenceRt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) to the Prime MinisterORAL QUESTIONSQUESTIONS TO MINISTERSBuilding and Construction Social Housing and Transport Ministers—Confidence1. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) to the Prime Minister: Does he still have confidence in all his Ministers; if so why?Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH (Prime Minister): Yes; because they are competent and hard-working. Despite that member's extensive efforts over 9 years he has not been able to persuade me otherwise. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! No no we do not need that first part.Rt Hon Winston Peters: If he has confidence in his last two housing Ministers who both made the same announcement 2 years apart regarding 34000 new houses for Auckland" did Nick Smith jump the gun in 2015 or did Amy Adams not find anything else new to say last month?Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: They were of course different announcements. The Government has made so many announcements about new houses that I am not surprised that the member who is not known for his grasp of detail is a bit confused.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Of course he knew all about the BNZ and the wine box did he not?Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member will resume his seat. That is the second supplementary question—on both occasions the member has taken a chance to make some comment that is unnecessary when he stood to take a supplementary question. I asked him the first time not to do it. I do not want to have to ask the member not to do it again.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. It was the Prime Minister who thought he could attack me on a matter of detail and I was putting him in his place.Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member will resume his seat. He will abide by the rules of this House. The member asked a very political question and he got a relatively political answer back.Rt Hon Winston Peters: If his Government believes families can live in a consent can he enlighten us as to just how many houses were both physically built in Auckland in the first 10 months of 2016 and issued a code of compliance certificate confirming that the house had been built according to its consent?Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: I do not have all those details in front of me but the member can be assured that there is more building of housing and infrastructure than there has been for a generation and because of a strong economy and a growing population and Kiwis staying at home that building programme is going to continue for at least the next 4 or 5 years. In fact in Auckland we have a 10-year $24 billion programme just for transport.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I seek leave to table a Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act request on code compliance certificates issued by Auckland Council dated 27 January 2017 which shows 4472 certificates were issued from January to October 2016.Mr SPEAKER: Leave is sought to table that particular Official Information Act advice. Is there any objection to it being tabled? There is not. It can be tabled.Document by leave laid on the Table of the House.Rt Hon Winston Peters: How can he have confidence in Ministers of housing when meeting the "housing challenge"—those are John Key's words last year—will supposedly deliver 12421 new houses at 11 houses a day at a cost of $2.23 billion; is he really telling Aucklanders that the average cost is just over $185000?Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: I have every confidence in the announcement made recently that the Government plans to build 34000 houses in Auckland. There will be revolving funding relevant to that and we are working right now with Auckland Council on the infrastructure of roads and water pipes that will be required to support those houses. It is a realistic plan and it will be executed.Rt Hon Winston Peters: If ANZ economists advised Treasury late last year that there is a shortage of 60000 houses nationwide and Auckland is lagging behind the 13000 homes required to meet population growth per annum why does he not just put Nick Smith out of his misery and save him the embarrassment of constantly being ridiculed about his failing housing policy? Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: I would rather put that member out of his misery because he is constantly ridiculed for not turning up in his electorate in Northland—but it is really up to the voters to do that. Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. [Interruption] Mr SPEAKER: Order! This is a point of order and it will be heard in silence. Rt Hon Winston Peters: We are not going to stand by while the Prime Minister and his colleagues repeat a falsehood in this House—in their case knowingly. We are not going to put up with that at all. Mr SPEAKER: Order! I have dealt with this matter before. Can I refer the member to Standing Order 359 if he feels there has been a case of misrepresentation. He may well have a case. If he writes to me we will investigate it from there. Rt Hon Winston Peters: If Minister Simon Bridges who announced—Hon Simon Bridges: Oh whoa whoa whoa! Rt Hon Winston Peters: Yes woe is you all right. Ha ha! If Minister Simon Bridges announced $69 million for 10 bridges during the Northland by-election in March 2015 why has the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) already allocated $62 million of that $69 million to just four bridges with the remaining six in limbo and how can he still have confidence in a Minister called "Simple Simon" who simply cannot count? Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: Well I am pleased to hear progress on the bridges because the member has been saying up until quite recently that none of them would be built. Now he seems to be complaining that four of them are going to be built properly. I have every confidence in NZTA to meet the undertakings made by the Government. Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. In the interest of detail I seek leave to table a question for written answer not publicly available yet dated 7 June 2017 which shows over $62 million will be spent on just four of the 10 bridges—Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member has described it enough. Leave is sought to table the answer to a written question that is not yet published. Is there any objection to it being tabled? There is not. It can be tabled.Document by leave laid on the Table of the House."