Halbert Shanan; Kuriger BarbaraSHANAN HALBERT (Labour): Thank you Madam Speaker. First and foremost I want to say how proud I am of the work that Kāinga Ora has done across Aotearoa New Zealand: the number of houses that they have built the people and whānau who they have supported.When I look at my own backyard Northcote housing development is one of the best examples of infrastructure development that this country has ever ever seen. That particular development has a long whakapapa. It started under Helen Clark it continued under Key the houses were bult under the Ardern-Hipkins Governments and here we are today.When I think about next Thursday when we hear the Budget what will we see? But more importantly what won't we see? We won't see more additional funding for public and State housing.Last Friday I went and looked at the 85 new State houses that were opened in the Northcote housing development part of 1700 overall. What's important there is not just that I showed up and showed interest in public housing in our area but actually those houses those apartments that are there were designed and developed and opened for our seniors our over-65s. Now that's important in that development because it works across communities. People have different needs. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to housing.Let me be clear that in that history of the Northcote housing development there were no houses built under the last National Government. Zero. In fact across New Zealand they ended up with less overall State houses than what they started with.So when this review was conducted and the report put up yesterday it paves a way for this National Government once again to sell off—to sell off—State houses in this country. I'm concerned because we're still building in Northcote and I heard a Minister across the way talk about After the Budget we're building houses we're building infrastructure we're building roads." so on and so forth. Well not with the Budget that they're putting up next Thursday. But most of all we were already doing that. The Northcote housing development 1700 houses a third of which are public houses; they've got new transport connections. We built a new primary school for the lowest decile on the North Shore of Auckland. We've got 150 hospital beds waiting to open because this Government hasn't funded it. In addition to that the infrastructure that we built to address the flooding issues in our area we invested under the Housing Acceleration Fund and what we saw in the floods last year in Auckland is that that took in the water that Auckland saw it then drained away the next day. The next suburb along the way was where the person died in Waihou Valley.Now anyone in this House can criticise the previous Government on housing—go for gold. But you tell me: where are your examples of success? Where did you build houses? Or are we going back to the 1990s of leaky homes substandard houses and one-size-fits-all for every family in this country? When I look at this report you know the context is important. They've forgotten the facts in the debate that they've put up today and so it's important that they actually acknowledge the whole report that's there; not just the narrative and rhetoric that this Government wants to roll out. All they have wanted to do pre-election and post-election is put the boot in to Kāinga Ora.I finish this speech in the way that I started. I'm proud of the work that Kāinga Ora has done. I'm proud of the houses that they've built. When I saw the community engagement team bringing new communities together in Northcote I'm proud of them—DEPUTY SPEAKER: The time for this debate has expired.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."