Davis KelvinKELVIN DAVIS (Labour—Te Tai Tokerau): Oh—I am devastated I am traumatised. You know I am broken. I really thought that the National Government members when they heard all the great arguments and heard the stories about people living in cars and families having to live in maraes and children doing homework by the interior light of a car and people living in tents on their relatives' backyards I really thought that they would say: Kelvin thank you very much for bringing this awesome bill to the House. This bill's beauty is its simplicity in that we have got to have a plan and then we have got to implement that plan—a plan to build houses and then implementing that plan to build those houses." Instead I hear from their speeches that they are not going to support this bill. I am surprised.I am very appreciative of the support from the Greens and New Zealand First and my colleagues here. It is very sad that the National Government is going to condemn yet more people to living homeless and not being to afford their own houses. Forty-one thousand people we hear are homeless and that looks like it is going to continue.At question time today I listened to the leader of the Labour Party Andrew Little ask the Prime Minister which of Nick Smith's so-called successes he is most proud of: (1) building fewer houses than we did 12 years ago (2) falling building consents (3) selling off State houses during a housing crisis (4) the lowest homeownership in 66 years (5) that we have got the fourth-most unaffordable city in the world or (6) that foreign speculators are buying more of our houses than ever before. I listened to the Prime Minister's quite lengthy answer and I guess I can summarise it in these three words: "Rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb." He had absolutely nothing of any sort of intelligence to say about the National Government's housing successes.That is reinforced by what I heard from the members speaking now. First of all Jo Hayes says to us that the National Government's housing plan is whacking our housing plan around the ears. Well there is a reason I never felt those whacks because there is nothing in their housing plan so it is a bit hard to get whacked with nothing. Then there are those words that they come out all the time with: "a comprehensive housing plan". When I was sitting down that end of the House there next to Megan Woods we had a little thing going that every time we heard the National Government members say that they had a comprehensive housing plan we would say "skol"—you know like the old drinking games at university. Well the Speaker told us off because we were saying it so often that we were actually drowning out what the members on the other side were saying. So we started just sipping water quietly. Well if it had been anything stronger than water we would have been rolled out of the House instead of walking out of the House at the end of question time.Actually it was really strange the contradictions between what the members were saying: Jo Hayes was saying something; Matt Doocey was saying something else. It is really poor form for party members to contradict each other. Jo Hayes was saying how much they are doing how much this Government is doing. This Government is doing this this Government is doing that. Matt Doocey says it is not the role of the Government to fix the housing crisis. So what is it? Is it the role of the Government and the Government is doing heaps or is it not the role of the Government? We are a bit confused by the responses from the other side.Then there was Dr Parmjeet Parmar. She said: "We've got to provide people with choice. People don't want to be living in houses that are basically identical to the one next to them." I heard her say that just now and I am thinking to myself: "You know if I was homeless I don't care what the house looks like. I don't care if it looks like the one next door or the next 10 houses down. It's better to live in a house that is identical to the neighbours' than to live in a car a tent or on a marae."It is really upsetting that the National Government does not want to pick up this KiwiBuild plan that will see us build—we are helping them out and yet they do not want to accept the help that we are offering them. It is really sad but it is not surprising because this Government is just going to continue to condemn more people more children and more families to homelessness. The 41000 who are homeless now—that number is going to rise. Thank you."