Turei Metiria; Tisch LindsayMETIRIA TUREI (Co-Leader—Green): I just want to be really clear about the meth issues that have been raised by my colleague Marama Davidson. We know that as a result of a poor standard and poor testing quality Housing New Zealand has spent millions of dollars using shoddy tests and making unnecessarily harmful decisions that have led to families having to leave their homes for no good reason. While Jo Hayes and National might think that it is fine for people to be evicted from their homes for no good reason based on shoddy science and at great expense to the public the Green Party does not think that is justifiable at all. We think that is a waste of public money and more importantly actually it is a totally unjustified disruption of the life of a family who have been evicted who have very low incomes and who have nowhere else to go. So Jo Hayes and National might think it is quite fine for people to be evicted from their homes and made homeless based on that shoddy science; the Green Party does not and that is why it is not supporting this bill.I would also just note on the two other provisions in this legislation that I am really pleased that there will be a greater enforcement around non-residential properties and the quality of those non-residential properties that are being used for residential purposes. That is fair enough if you are talking about garages. What about some decent law from National that holds residential properties to a higher quality standard? Would it not be great thing if we had a law that said that those properties that are residential properties and are unfit because they are cold and damp and cause people illness—Marama Davidson: They make people sick.METIRIA TUREI: —that is right—because they do not provide basic services like decent water like not having holes in the walls or in the floors and like being properly insulated so that they keep people warm? Would it not be fantastic if we had a law that said that those residential properties were unfit for our families to live in and that those landlords—Phil Twyford: Going to have to change the Government for that Met.METIRIA TUREI: We are going to fix that. That is quite right Phil Twyford. But would it not be great if that was the law that we were discussing today? That would mean that New Zealand families could guarantee that the homes they are renting which are supposed to be homes that are warm safe and dry actually would be warm safe and dry—imagine that. But no National has no interest in protecting and maintaining the quality of residential properties. It is spending the time the last remaining weeks that it has in Government focused on a sliver of the issues that matter. And yes it does matter that landlords—exploitative landlords—are renting out garages and commercial buildings and outdoor sheds as residential properties and charging people a huge amount of money for that—Marama Davidson: Huge.METIRIA TUREI: —a huge amount of money for that. Yes that matters.We also have other major issues in the rental housing market that National should have been addressing over the last 8 or 9 years and it has failed. National has been running from the major issues in housing that this country faces and now in its last remaining weeks in Government—it is only a few more weeks to go before it is out—it brings us this bill. We are simply not going to put the Green Party name to a piece of legislation that is potentially going to cause more people to be homeless and is going to make it very difficult for tenants especially under the Holler v Osaki case. I know about the Osaki case and I know the details of it and I understand the need to do something to clarify the law but this bill is a sledgehammer that undermines tenants' rights and the Green Party will not put its name to that either. We will not support this bill. Thank you.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Peeni Henare tēnā koe—5 minutes.