Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): Fakalofa lahi atu Mr Speaker. I'm just sitting here freaking out a little bit at Judith Collins' speech today where she stood up and put up this new air of concern about people struggling with living costs and people struggling with being able to afford to pay their way and live their ordinary lives. I wonder where that concern was back in 2016—well pretty much the whole time she spent in Government actually—when she actually said publicly that the cause of child poverty was bad parenting. So I don't know where this change—well I do know where this change has come from. She needs to say something doesn't she?So I really need to be upfront and state that because she also asked a question today seemingly in support of the Salvation Army's suggestion around equity share and some solutions to encouraging more people to be able to own their own homes. We're currently at the lowest rate of homeownership that we have seen in a long long time. She used the guise of concern for homeownership and concern for people struggling with living costs when she is really known for actually just slamming people—just blaming the individual and blaming parents for people being in struggling situations the causes of which are systemic and were able to be fixed the whole time that she had access to power and resources while she was in Government and didn't do a darn blinking thing about. And she in fact exasperated the issue for the families who were struggling the very most particularly in cutting strong employment laws and employee protection laws—slashing all of those—keeping people in low-wage precarious work situations. Those are the very people who she was calling out for being bad parents.I did want to genuinely and authentically support the direction and the approach of the Salvation Army and a rent-to-own and progressive homeownership model which of course is in the Green Party's confidence and supply agreement with Labour and we are working really well with Minister Phil Twyford to push that through and to come up with a model. We've done it before too in this very country and actually those progressive homeownership models have had generational positive impacts actually. We've seen what can happen and we are again finally a Government who will also put something in place with that. So we're working through what that could look like and all that the Salvation Army were suggesting and highlighting today is that there are community iwi and hapū examples of partnerships where we can actually work together to enable more people to actually own their own homes.That's why I'm not too worried about some of those homeowners who might actually sell off some of their investment in speculation properties because that's fine. We want to assist more people into owning their own homes. We also want to make sure our rental properties are strong and healthy and affordable and we also want to make sure that the balance of rights to protect tenants in this market where too often—actually there's 60000 people who are on the precipice on the edge of being pushed into a situation of severe homelessness: living in streets cars garages and so forth. And so we really do want to sharpen up all along our housing continuum and I am pleased to be at the forefront of working on those issues with the Minister Phil Twyford.So I really just wanted to make it very clear that while I am on one level in agreement with Judith Collins her record is a shocker. So she doesn't actually mean it. Her reputation on how much she actually cares about people who are homeless people who are struggling and people who are not yet owning their own homes is a shocker. How dare she stand up and pretend to genuinely care about that.I'm really proud to stand up and put our longstanding Green Party political positions and ideas that have existed that we have campaigned long and hard on again at the forefront of the work that we want to do. There's a whole lot of stuff happening here in Parliament at the moment. We are continuing to put what people are actually experiencing and the job that we have to get on and do at the forefront. Those are bold progressive policies. That is why I'm really proud to be the co-leader. The work that we have to do working with our confidence and supply and Government partners to turn around the direction that that National Party had so much time to fix and so many resources—we will do it. Thank you Mr Speaker.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed.