Smith NickHon Dr NICK SMITH (National—Nelson): The problem is the gaping hole between the rhetoric that we've just heard from Mr Little and the reality of the bill. You see it's an issue about spin versus substance about rhetoric versus reality. Let's firstly remind the Parliament that a residential amendment Act was passed by this Parliament—a residential amendment Act; don't dress it up in spin. Just say what it is; none of this Healthy Homes Guarantee".It reminds me of what the Government has done over the vigorous objection to the evil of the Trans-Pacific Partnership! Now that we put the words that it's a "comprehensive progressive" Trans-Pacific Partnership suddenly it's a beautiful international agreement that the Government is now going to adopt. The relevance is that it is the same with the title of this bill: there is nothing in a guarantee of healthy homes in this bill. Next minute we're going to get the "Eradication of Poverty Bill". We'll get another bill that says it's the "Prosperity for Everybody Bill". Somehow if you pass a bill with a fancy title you magically fix the challenging issues that our country faces!Let's firstly be clear about the record. The previous Government insulated 340000 homes and invested half a billion dollars in doing so. Let me just compare that. When you compare that 340000 homes under nine years of a National Government—this issue of cold draughty homes didn't arrive yesterday; I wonder how many the Clark Government did?Hon Member: How many? Tell us.Hon Dr NICK SMITH: 35000. We did 340000 and they do 35000 and Mr Little thinks he can give us a lecture about caring for children and about healthy homes. Then—here's the extraordinary part—every single operational clause of Mr Little's bill is being deleted by the member's Supplementary Order Paper 1. There isn't a single provision in the bill that is retained. What a dog. Why not be honest and just introduce a new bill and not put up this facade? I know there are hurt feelings with Mr Little being dumped a few weeks before the election but that is no reason to play with this Parliament about such an important issue.Then there is this: the member Mr Little claims that this bill elevates the standard required for the standard of our rental accommodation.Hon Kris Faafoi: And he's right.Hon Dr NICK SMITH: I say to Mr Faafoi: where in the bill does it raise that standard? Let me take him through it. Number one we passed legislation—and I have in front of me 20 pages of regulations—around what's required to insulate homes in New Zealand by 1 July 2019. Can Mr Faafoi answer: how will this bill make this change?Hon Andrew Little: Better insulation.Hon Dr NICK SMITH: No there's nothing in this bill—nothing in this bill at all tells me anything about what the new insulation standard will be.Then let's go through the other issues. I have in front of me the housing regulations passed under existing law. They set down and say that houses shall not be damp houses shall have appropriate heating housing will have appropriate electrical safety houses will have appropriate issues around security and all those issues. They're all in the regulations.So the claim by Mr Little that somehow this bill is actually going to elevate the standards of homes and guarantee healthy homes is a load of wash. It is a load of spin. There is nothing in this bill that actually delivers on the highly moded the highly sort of spin-doctored claim that somehow if you pass a bill through this Parliament that is called the healthy homes guarantee magically homes are somehow insulated and made healthy.Hon Kris Faafoi: Why are your colleagues blaming you Nick?Hon Dr NICK SMITH: Oh they're not at all. In fact we are incredibly proud of our record because here's what we know. We know that the standard of homes was improved by a greater level—[Time expired]"