Waititi RawiriRAWIRI WAITITI (Co-Leader—Te Paati Māori) (remote): Tēnā koe e te Pīka. Tēnā koutou e te Whare. Well I take this short call for a third reading speech on the Residential Tenancies (Healthy Homes Standards) Amendment Bill that's being passed under urgency. Like I said last night in the first reading this is a terrible bill. It is being passed only to let landlords at Kāinga Ora homes off the hook by giving them an extra year to comply with the healthy homes standards.I want to open with a kōrero by the late Dr Moana Jackson—not the early Willie Jackson but the late Dr Moana Jackson. And I quote Māori have been homeless since 1840. Because Māori were deprived of the right to be at peace at home the problem today is around houselessness. If we can solve the problem of houselessness then we make it easier for people to feel at home. Part of the solution to houselessness is to remedy homelessness which colonisation has caused and the answer lies in Te Tiriti." What this bill sets out to do is keep house owners—and in particular Kāinga Ora formerly known as Housing New Zealand—from ensuring that their tenants do not feel a right to feel at peace at home to the point where they feel afraid to speak up or out about their Third World living conditions of their situation or run the risk of being kicked out thus becoming houseless or even homeless. The reality is that more than 50 percent of Māori are renters. If the average house price is 850K and the bank requires a 20 percent deposit and interest rates for repayment of debt at 6 percent how many Māori will be able to afford their own home? Hence the reason why many of our people are renters and they have the right to immediately feel peace in a healthy home. But this bill does not do that. What it does is it gives Kāinga Ora and house owners the leeway to delay. This is a terrible bill.We also know that Māori make up 50 percent of the social housing waiting list. Surely the Minister knows that the State subsidisation of the market rent of $2.6 billion per annum distorts the true state of social housing provision. How many private speculator dwellings are subsidised by the market rent subsidy? So it's leeway and subsidies for the rich and the upper class and it's damp cold unhealthy homes for the most vulnerable whānau in our society. This bill should be called the "Leeway for the Government and Rich People (Double Standards) Bill".Let's put another spin on this. Over 4000 vulnerable whānau are living—not staying but living—at emergency addresses in motels; 1000 of those are in my electorate Waiariki alone. Some have been there for over two years going on three with no end in sight. What accountability does the motels have who mare making millions of dollars of taxpayers' money to ensure their rooms are of a healthy home standard? Or is it money in the pocket and more leeway for the rich?What this bill lacks is the ability to punish those who don't get their houses up to healthy homes standard. In particular the Government is passing under urgency the leeway to allow them another year to get houses to the healthy homes standards. There are no penalties of substance. I agree with the member last night who said it would be like getting slapped with a wet bus ticket whilst 30000 tamariki will be hospitalised because they are living in unhealthy homes. Cold damp and rundown houses are literally killing our people. This is absolutely disgraceful.Like I said in the first reading these changes speak to the double standards that the State applies to those with power and wealth who don't comply with the law and those without as tangata whenua know too well. I reiterate that rather than further weakening protections with this bill the Government should be strengthening the standards which were watered-down to lobby the property class. We are strongly and wholeheartedly opposed to this legislation and again call on this Government to withdraw it and do what's right by renters in Aotearoa. Kia ora tātou."