Faafoi Kris; Tisch LindsayKRIS FAAFOI (Labour—Mana): I listened to that speech and the way I felt about that speech is a lot like the way I feel about this Government: I just wanted it to come to an end. It was the longest 10 minutes and the scariest phrase I heard during those 10 minutes was when Nathan Guy said: Wait there's more." There is no more. This is a Government that is tired and out of ideas. It is behind the eight ball. This is a party that is saying that it is out there putting more police on our streets. It is just 12 months too late. That is a promise that this party over here made at the last New Zealand Police Association conference at a time when the Government was in complete denial about whether there was increased crime and whether our police were stretched. It is 12 months late.The Government is now boasting about a petrol inquiry that my colleague Stuart Nash called for about 15 months ago. But guess what? Who blocked that petrol inquiry at the select committee? That is right punters it was the National Government. So when we want to get fairness around petrol prices and when we want to get more police on our streets do not look towards the National Party for the answers. In 2017 people will be looking towards this side of the House to find solutions to the problems that really matter to New Zealanders. Their problem during the 2017 election is going to be housing.When I got back home from my electorate office yesterday I decided to go for a walk as I needed to clear my head. I walked through the park and saw kids practising tag and some people walking their dogs. When I got around the corner I saw a man standing next to a van. I pulled my headphones out and said: "Gidday how's it going?". He said: "Gidday. I need to talk to you Kris because I need some help. I'm living in my van. I've been living in my van for the last couple of months. I'm in a really dire situation. I'm waiting for a Housing New Zealand house. I'm in a bit of a tough spot personally. But I'm a local and I don't think it should be so hard to find a house to live in. I've been dossing at other people's houses but I don't want to be a burden on anyone else for much longer."This is not a man who was complaining about his lot. He said that he had enough food. He was on a sickness benefit but he could not get himself a home. Here he was still a proud Porirua man asking why it was so hard to get a house in Porirua. I agree with him because it should not be so hard for someone who has lived in the community and who has grown up in the community—Hon Jacqui Dean: What did you do?KRIS FAAFOI: Well I did what any good local MP would do and got his contact details. No one else was helping him at that stage. I want to know what the Government is doing for him. I pose that question to the members on the opposite side of the House. What are they doing for him? I can say right now with absolute confidence that the Government is doing nothing.In this election when we are talking about solutions to that man's problems talking about the people waiting for affordable housing and talking about the people wanting to buy an affordable home not just in Porirua and the Kāpiti Coast but further afield and in Auckland where the problem is most acute we are going to do something about it. We have been telling people for some time that we are going to do something about it.I am very proud of the KiwiBuild programme—100000 homes over 10 years. As the Prime Minister has said—far too late—we need to build some homes. We have been saying that for years—we have been saying that for years. The absolute solution to the problem is to build some homes something that the party over there has failed to do in the last 8 years.We hear from Nick Smith about consents but we do not hear enough about meeting the targets of building those homes. Maybe Nick will have one of those consent-warming parties where we can go along and say: "Hey here's my new house—oh no actually it is a bare plot of land." The consent might be there but the house is not there. That is exactly what is going on in Auckland at the moment. They are not meeting the demand.We on this side of the House are going to take some action and that is why I talk about KiwiBuild. At the last election we worked with the Porirua City Council to partner with it and to use some of its land to build some affordable homes in Porirua. That is part of the solution. That will be replicated around the country so that the people who desperately need homes will get them.I want to talk about leadership because this is going to be a big issue this year. I am proud to sit behind my leader who as a union boss stood behind people like my mum when she worked in a factory. When the workers went on strike the union stood behind my mum. When we hear members on the other side bagging the unions I want to make sure that all those union members out there who are paid-up members and want to change the Government get out there and make sure there is a change of Government this year. We have to make sure that we kick the Government out of office in order to do for our communities all of the good things that we want to make sure happen: affordable housing good healthcare good education and good jobs and wages for our people. This Government has been in power for far too long and has ruined all those things that are fundamental building blocks to make sure that we can live the Kiwi Dream. The Kiwi Dream of owning a home has all but disappeared. I think the median price of a house in Auckland is $850000 at the moment. The Government says it has done all it can do. That is not leadership. We need leadership and that is where KiwiBuild comes in.This year healthcare is also going to be an issue. I want to talk about that in the context of the front page of yesterday's Dominion Post which said that mental health care at the Kenepuru Hospital was unsafe. That is because of what this Government has done—on purpose. It has slowly taken $1.7 billion out of healthcare over the last 8 years. What does that mean? It means that facilities like that one in Porirua which serves the Wellington region get run down. The care at that facility cannot be up to scratch. The resourcing is not up to scratch. What we do get is a report that says that for a certain period one in five murders that happens here in Wellington is because of the lack of care that is offered by the local district health board. In my books that is not good enough. That is not the New Zealand that I think most New Zealanders want to live in. We want to make sure that those who are the most vulnerable get the care that they need.Let us move to education. We heard the education Minister talking about a whole lot of statistics but the biggest challenge that the education system has at the moment is preparing our workers for the future that we do not quite have yet but is on the horizon. That is why I am very proud of the policy that we have of 3 years' free tertiary education for those who have not done post-school education. That will give people a chance to re-skill to be able to support their families in a workplace that we have not had yet but is on the horizon—and jobs will just disappear. That is what I am proud of.There is a message that I want to say to people who are not in this House right now but who are out there in the community and are frustrated and tired of this Government: we need you. We need you to make sure that people are having those discussions that they are sick and tired of this Government. We need you to make sure that you are out there helping us knocking on doors delivering pamphlets and making the phone calls so we can have a change of Government in 2017.There was a big difference between the two state of the nation speeches—between Bill English the Prime Minister who is not a leader and our leader Andrew Little who is a leader. We reaffirmed our commitment to housing education health and jobs and wages. What did we hear from Mr English? We heard a rehash of Labour's policy and nothing on housing and complete denial of the No. 1 challenge that Kiwi families are facing today: either getting safe accommodation getting warm accommodation or having the chance of buying a house. What did Mr English say about housing in that speech? Not one sausage. He is in complete denial. They do not want to talk about it because they know they are most vulnerable on the housing issue.I have one more ask for people who are watching at home and it is a local ask because there is a lot of land on Castor Crescent in Cannons Creek that has been empty since the Housing New Zealand homes were demolished back in 2011. Housing New Zealand said it would replace those homes but they have not yet been replaced. That is having an awful effect on that community because they want people back in their community. They want their area to be vibrant again. We can put some pressure on the Government on 4 March because I am holding a public meeting there and I am inviting the community to make sure that they come and send a strong message to the Government: "You promised to put back the homes you demolished in 2011. For 6½ years you have sat on your hands and done nothing. So come back make sure you keep your promise because the families of my area need homes to live in." The man whom I saw on my walk yesterday needs a house to live in. The people who come to my electorate office need a house to live in. This Government has done nothing to help those people.To Jacqui Dean who asked me "What did you do about it?" I say that I am doing something about it and your Government has done nothing for the last 8 years. You have sold houses and not built enough to keep up with demand and that is going to be your downfall in 2017.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): The next call is a split call. Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi—5 minutes."