Lee MelissaMELISSA LEE (National): Thank you Mr Speaker. I'm not quite sure what the rush is in terms of the way that my colleague Naisi Chen actually spoke. I don't think I've ever spoken so fast. I was trying to actually understand what she was saying but I guess the Government's very keen to get this done as soon as possible.This bill the Residential Property Managers Bill is one that as spokesperson Chris Bishop said the National Party will support to select committee and in the second to last day of Parliament we are debating this. I understand the passion from different parties in the way that they have actually debated but I just wanted to bring some of my thoughts to this debate.I have also been a tenant as well as a landlord and having a great property manager who actually facilitates that process is I think very very important. In Mount Albert we have great property managers from both Anne Duncan real estate and Catherine Goodwin real estate who do amazing jobs and they have very passionate people who want to help tenants as well as landlords manage the process in a very cordial way.One of the things that the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand - issued paper A Call for Change: Better Property Management" gave examples of is some of the issues that are actually faced by property managers in terms of discriminating against tenants and asking for inappropriate personal information. I know for a fact that a lot of people in the migrant community who've potentially never actually rented in this country face discrimination if their surnames and their names are not the typical names that New Zealanders are actually used to—if their names are not Smith but potentially Lee let's say: Lee and Smith fairly common in Asia and in European cultures. But you know if New Zealand is so used to having Smiths they're not very used to Lees I guess.I know for a fact that a lot of the migrant community face terrible delays and trouble trying to find tenancy to actually rent properties when they're in in dire need of accommodation. They couldn't explain apart from racism to me—and they come to the office some of them crying and I think that's really heart-breaking to watch.Also when you talk to some of the tenants who are in terrible renting spaces where landlords—I know there are actually a huge shortage of rental properties but to have 30 people for example living in really dire situations some of them living in garages and made-up spaces that should not be tenanted out I think we do have a major problem in terms of housing in this country. We do all I think in this House know that we need to build more homes not just for ownership but also for rentals. Because everybody needs to have a house whether it's actually to own or to live or to rent or whatever it is. But we have more people than houses available and that is something that we all need to actually work towards.I've heard the speech that Chris Bishop gave and he actually gave the cost-benefit analysis in terms of how this bill actually gains 7c and that sort of made me smile a little bit: that it is really not a huge gain when you spend $1 and only gain 7c as a benefit. But in terms of the cost to the property managers it will effectively go to the landlords and ultimately will end up in in the tenants' costs. I hope that we can look at select committee as to how we can actually reduce that burden on the tenants. But to actually have responsible tenancy managers property managers is something that I support and hence I commend the bill to the House."