Sio William; Borrows ChesterSu'a WILLIAM SIO (Labour—Māngere): Normally at the third reading speech we are generally wanting to express our gratitude to people who have considered the legislation and to thank members of the select committee. I do not feel any sense of gratitude tonight. In fact if anything I feel more animosity and anger towards the Minister for Building and Housing and that Government of his.I should be grateful to Mr Alfred Ngaro for acknowledging that there is a housing crisis but I know the way he behaves now. Once upon a time he was a caring person but he now reflects everything bad about this Government—the arrogance the uncaring the fact that he says to the Pacific community that there is a national housing crisis but then comes to this Committee and votes down every amendment that we have put up to grow the housing stock to crack down on speculators and to restore and enable Housing New Zealand to look after those who are needy. He will be voting down every single one of those amendments. You see how he has changed in only two terms? You see how he has changed? He reflects the total arrogance of that particular Government.This is a Government that has been in power for the last 8 years and as a Government it has been privileged with the powers the authority and the resources to do something about this housing crisis. But for 8 years we have simply been told that this is what it is doing and the fact remains—the fact remains—that in that 8 years we have seen inequality increase. The number of people in homeless situations has gone up by 20 percent—that is right. People living in cars has become normalised. People living in garages has become normalised. In fact the Government's own department now refers people into garages as if that was an acceptable mode of accommodation. That is wrong. That is totally wrong. If the Government was genuine if it was sincere about addressing this housing crisis—which all of New Zealand now recognises and all of New Zealand now talks about—it would have voted along with all of the Opposition parties in support of each of the amendments that were put forward to address this housing crisis.I do not understand how people on that side of the House can accept that the average price of a house in Auckland is now over a million dollars. I do not understand how they can say that that is affordable housing for people in Auckland when working-class communities such as mine in Māngere and many others on an average income of $60000 will not be able to service a mortgage close to a million dollars. They will not be able to access mortgages because they will not have the 20 percent that is required to buy a house at that particular price. But it is not just Auckland—the housing unaffordability crisis has spread out to the regions. It has spread out to the South Island. So it is not just Auckland that we are talking about.The Minister came down earlier and presented some graphs. I do not know whether he made those graphs up—we will never know because this bill was never forwarded to a select committee. This House was denied the benefit of receiving a select committee's advice and denied the benefit of receiving public submissions from the general public. I suspect that if that had been done many many more Opposition members on this side would have been a little bit more confident about what we are passing tonight. I do not feel any confidence whatsoever.You see Part 1—although we would agree about the transition period of extending those housing accords and the special housing authority to give time for those to be implemented the reality remains that the new powers in Part 1 enable the Minister to override local authority to override the Auckland Unitary Plan which has been worked upon by elected councillors and local board members. The Minister does not have that right—he does not have that right—but in the regulatory impact statement I note that there are five special housing areas five special housing areas that are established on land that is not zoned residential. This Government gave the Minister the power to override the Auckland Unitary Plan authority for the sake of those five special housing areas.Part 2 concerns me—I draw your attention to what Metiria Turei said earlier. I am now suspicious more so than ever about what mess this Government has created that we will end up paying for—what mess this Government has created because of the disgraceful way that this Minister has behaved. It is as Andrew Little said a constitutional disgrace that this Minister is removing property rights from those who once upon a time were the original owners of land that was forcibly taken under the Public Works Act for the sole purpose of creating affordable State accommodation. If that is no longer the purpose it is the original owners including iwi to whom we should be returning those lands.This Government has made fun of the KiwiBuild commitment that we have made. We have presented that as proposed Part 3 of this bill asked the Minister to examine it and we have debated it. But as I have said it is shameful that some members on that side of the House will go out to the community and say Yes we understand there's a housing crisis. We feel sorry for you." but then come back and turn up in this House and vote down the legislation that would improve the lot of people in need.Next Saturday Te Puea Marae will recognise the Māori wardens who have worked alongside it to provide temporary accommodation for people sleeping in cars. It is its hope and wish that we do not return to having to supply this temporary accommodation next year but based on what we have heard from this Minister and the way that this Government has voted against the various amendments that were put forward to address the national housing crisis I believe that we will be back again next year in the cold of winter with Te Puea Marae and many other maraes offering again temporary accommodation for people who are sleeping in cars and overcrowded situations.It is appalling for a country such as New Zealand which prides itself as one of the wealthiest of the developed nations as a country that rubs shoulders with Obama as a country that rubs shoulders with some of the greater economic powers of this world to then come back to this country and accept the fact that we have a growing number of young people who will never ever be able to afford to buy their home at increasing prices unless mum and dad provide some gift of equity or a family house. That is the situation that this Government has created and it is solely because of its policies. It has the power and the resources to address this crisis but it just will not. It will not address it.As I have said repeatedly now to members of our own community and as I said it to Mr Alfred Ngaro a month ago the only way the only way that a Labour Government would be able to build 10000 houses a year—100000 houses for the next year mind you. In Auckland we need 44000 houses today to meet the ongoing population growth and nothing provided in this piece of legislation is ever ever going to address that. It will not address it today it will not address it tomorrow and it will not address it next week so next year again I fear that not only will Te Puea Marae have to open its doors for the homeless but we will see a growing number of people living in those homeless situations. All of that is because of this Government's policy. As I have said again to the young people—and I will continue to say it—the only way that we can improve and address this housing crisis is if we get rid of this lot. We have got to get rid of this Government here because that is the way that you can bring about change.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: It is tragic to interrupt the member but his time has expired."