Hayes JoanneJOANNE HAYES (National): I stand to take a call on our comprehensive housing plan because I am very proud to stand here and say that when it comes to Christchurch that comprehensive housing plan has worked a treat. When I look at the number of homes that were destroyed because of those earthquakes it astounds me that this Government over a 3-year period has been able to redevelop the homes to build the homes that were destroyed especially around the social housing or the Housing New Zealand homes. When we start looking at what happened post-earthquake this Government established what was known as the Canterbury Earthquake Temporary Accommodation Service and this was able to house 6500 people in temporary accommodation while their homes were being repaired. This Government also worked alongside the Department of Corrections. This is not just a housing plan to just put up houses throughout the area; this is a plan that actually encompasses all of the agencies that are in Christchurch. And when I say the Department of Corrections" it was the Department of Corrections that actually came along and worked in partnership with this Government and was able to do the repairs that some of the homes needed and some of the rebuilds in the electorate that I look after Christchurch East. The department came along and built some homes down in Aranui. The land was opened by the Prime Minister in 2014 and by the end of 2015 people were actually living in those homes. I turn to Aldershot Street in Aranui this year. The Minister for Social Housing Paula Bennett opened 15 homes—15 homes—out of the 108 social housing homes that are going to be opened in Aranui by the end of this year. These are homes that will house over 200 people and they are replacing 97 homes that were destroyed in the Aranui area. I look at the many housing projects that are going on not just with the social housing but with all the private housing areas as well. We have got Prestons growing; we have got Pegasus growing. By 2017 all the housing that is required for Christchurch—our housing projects—will be complete and we will be back to the start and growing from where we were before the 2011 earthquakes. I am shocked that the Opposition has taken a xenophobic approach to people owning homes in the Auckland area and throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. It is a bad look for us as New Zealanders and it has got to stop. We cannot have that kind of nonsense in this country because that is not the way that we are. When I look at the KiwiSaver HomeStart grant Labour is looking to take away HomeStart. A lot of young people actually use HomeStart to be able to purchase their first homes. And while I am on youth let us have a look at some of the supported accommodation projects for youth that were developed in Christchurch and in Palmerston North. We have been able to house those young people between the ages of 16 and 19 years old who have been sitting on the social housing register and put them into some homes where they can stay for as long as they want to. So many exciting things are happening in the Christchurch area in the city. Six hundred homes will be enabled through the Riccarton racecourse legislation which was approved by this House and that is going to actually open up whole new opportunities for the people living in Christchurch—that is 600 brand new homes of which a portion of those will be sold for only $450000 under special housing accommodation. All in all it is an amazing time in Christchurch. New developments—this is a new city. We are loving it down there. We are leading the way when it comes to housing. Everybody in the country must take a leaf out of the Christchurch book because we have dropped housing prices from 16 percent down to 3 percent. People are able to buy homes there. People are getting housed. Thank you."