Radhakrishnan PriyancaPRIYANCA RADHAKRISHNAN (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker and as we celebrate Niuean Language Week this week fakaalofa lahi atu. Oh my Lord how much doom and gloom have we had to sit through from members opposite who have had no plan and just negativity? The current Opposition just barks at every car and mocks everything that this Government does. It is pitiful.I however along with other MPs have been going out and about visiting a number of organisations and schools. We often stand up on this side of the House and talk about what we've done. I actually want to talk about what they've been feeding back to us in terms of what's worked because that's what we've been going out to do—what has worked what are the challenges and what more work do we need to do in those spaces to address the wellbeing of New Zealanders. Organisations that provide a whole host of services both in the electorate where I am based in Maungakiekie but also across the country have been talking about obviously housing what's working in the State housing and public housing space for them and the need to do more. We absolutely appreciate that and I'll go into some of the work that this Government's doing in that space.One outstanding piece of feedback though constantly was about the winter energy payment and the real difference that that has made to the lives of New Zealanders who previously couldn't afford to stay warm over winter the school lunches programme to fix thousands of school children who have been going hungry and schools in Maungakiekie have told me about the fact that they're grateful for the fact that school donations and NCEA fees have been cut.Now getting to housing. Given the amount of time I have I just want to focus on housing and safety two specific issues that have come up. So we've banned offshore speculation as we've gone into that. We've stopped the State house sell-off and built 2178 State homes this year. Members will remember that in Budget 2018 there was an increase in funding to public housing spaces to increase spaces—Hon Dr Nick Smith: Can the member say the words KiwiBuild"?PRIYANCA RADHAKRISHNAN: —by 6400 places over four years. That is on average 1600 places a year. Hon Dr Nick Smith: Tell us about KiwiBuild.SPEAKER: Order! That's enough.PRIYANCA RADHAKRISHNAN: We've built 2178. So you talk about targets—there you go; there's a target that's absolutely been smashed. We've expanded Housing First with an additional 1044 places. That's a total of 2700. Can I just remind members opposite who are smirking that this is actually people's lives we're talking about. This is addressing homelessness. This is addressing transience. Today we went out and met social housing providers through the Social Services and Community Committee where we had a man in tears who told us about the building project that they're undertaking that actually means that families can now say that—he told us about a child who said to him when they moved into a new house that had been built this child said to her parents "This is too nice a house Mum. When will we have to leave this house too?" And that man who told us this story was in tears that they're actually providing housing Housing First places that have been provided for by this Government to house people. So let's just remember that. In Maungakiekie alone there are close to 760 new State houses that I drove around and visited; a major housing project that's coming up that will increase housing by 1000 in Oranga that has now also talked about the fact that they have a choice to return policy which was something that many of us advocated for—the fact that when people are moved out of a major housing project development area they must be given the choice to return to the support networks that they've built. That is now being given to them as well. In terms of safety dairy robberies were a huge issue that was brought up to me time and again. Since 2017 this Government has supported over 500 businesses with extra security and peace of mind—financial support for fog cannons. What we've seen is aggravated robbery drop by 40 percent and the number of serious injuries to shopkeepers drop by 85 percent. All this while ensuring that the economy is in good shape that we can withstand global headwinds with an economy that's growing faster than those we compare ourselves to—we're doing incredibly well. There is a lot more to do but this Government's making a huge amount of progress and I am so proud to be supporting them."