Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Tēnā koe Mr Chair. Tēnā koutou katoa. I really just want to focus on the social housing area because it is particularly relevant to my community of Manurewa and I want to highlight the Minister for Social Housing's $41 million allocation for emergency places. When the Minister was asked at the Social Services Committee how many of these 3000 places were new places it was of interest that she did not know—she did not know. So what does that say? That is National's comprehensive plan? What we do know is that there will be no new places under this Government's investment. Of the 61 providers across Auckland—and I am sure New Zealanders will be really interested in this—there are only eight specialist emergency housing providers. One of them DePaul House has 12 homes available to it. It provides housing and family support for the homeless. It is a specialist provider that has been existing for a number of years. It is really interesting that the Government wants to support these providers but actually what level of support does the Government give DePaul House? It actually gives it only 20 percent of the funding it needs to meet the needs of homeless people in Auckland—20 percent. Most of the funding for this specialist emergency housing provider comes from Foundation North from the Hugh Green Foundation from Bunnings Warehouse from the Tindall Foundation from Mike Pero from David Levene from schools from volunteers and from philanthropy. That is who is meeting the needs of emergency housing across Tāmaki-makau-rau. For one of eight providers that is the reality.So who are the other providers? Who do you think the other 53 providers of emergency housing are? Well actually they are motels and hotels and campgrounds and if you want to stay there you have to pay $108 a night. As we have heard already the average length of a family being homeless is 155 days and this Government with its new $41 million investment will pay for seven of those 155 days. How generous of this Government to meet the emergency housing needs of New Zealanders! But the most shocking actually was the fact that the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) did its own internal review of emergency housing policy and what did it actually say? The review actually came out in June 2015 and we probably have not even read it—I could not find it—but thank goodness John Campbell did. What the Ministry of Social Development said about the Government's own emergency housing policy was this: It is incoherent. It is unfair. It is not accountable and"—guess what—"there is no system." That is National's comprehensive policy. Well done National! That is your comprehensive policy. If you have no system then how are you ever going to meet the needs of those homeless New Zealanders who now consider their cars to be their homes? It is an absolutely shocking situation for a country that is so wealthy and has this amazing economy that the Government talks about all time. That is what that amazing economy is delivering—groups of homeless people.The reality of homelessness in my electorate is that the other night at Victoria Park we had 27 cars parked up. We 27 cars with families so there were mums dads and children—because there are children in our families. I know through the statistics from my office that in the first 3 months of this year we wrote 34 letters to Housing New Zealand and MSD for families who wanted accommodation. In those families we had 57 children. So in 3 years' time when the Government is going to build all these houses—hey hopefully our families will still be on the waiting list but for the next 3 years guess what? Those families have to sleep in cars sleep in garages sleep outside.A big mihi to Lifewise and to my caucus colleagues Phil Goff and Jacinda Ardern who are sleeping outside tonight to raise awareness of homelessness. In terms of the other people in the House I know that the Greens have got a team. I am not sure about National members but homelessness does not exist in their world. Well it exists in ours and some of us are out there tonight to highlight the issue."