Bayly AndrewANDREW BAYLY (National—Hunua): Thank you Mr Speaker. I think I've got to differ from my colleague the Hon Gerry Brownlee when he talked about this Government being chaotic. It's shambolic even. What worries me about this Labour - New Zealand First Government is in certain areas the deafening silence of nothing.What I would like to say before I start out is that I do like the Hon Jenny Salesa and I think she's a well-intentioned Minister but I am increasingly getting concerned about what is happening in the building and construction industry. It is a very vital part of it and of course we want KiwiBuild to succeed; we want to see houses being built in New Zealand. But unfortunately I'm reminded of that Texas saying with regard to Mr Twyford—unfortunately it's All hat and no cattle."The lack of progress in KiwiBuild is a real issue and if you go to the KiwiBuild internet site what it actually says they've achieved so far is 33 completed homes and 77 homes being under construction now—a bit different from what we heard earlier in question time today. But by this time by the end of December they are meant to have built 500 homes using his own target—500 and they've only completed 33. The Minister for Building and Construction's role is closely aligned to that of obviously the housing industry but unfortunately we have a Minister asleep at the wheel.When I go around conferences and talk to those builders who are actually building something the issues in this industry are blindingly obvious and I think the most important one is the issue around skills. It's a large industry—250000 people—and what worries me is that in the time this Government has been in power there has only been a net increase of just over 3000 people involved in training in the building and construction sector. I think that's a worry. The Minister said that is her prime role; she's convened this great big working party of I think seven Ministers. They had a lovely photo opportunity a couple of months ago—all these Ministers in hard hats—but unfortunately I want to know when we're going to see some more people come into this industry. Soon I hope.The other thing is that when you talk to builders they talk about the issue of consenting the lack of site inspectors and the time it takes to issue codes of compliance. It is the bane of their lives. Many councils are slow to process consents the cost of consents is increasing and the delay of getting inspectors on site—just things you hear all the time. But what do we hear from this Minister? Zip—zip. And that is also another worry.The third issue is about the non-conforming products that are flooding into this market. We need innovation but these products are coming in that don't meet New Zealand standards are often sold on the internet and the current cost of them is estimated at between $100 million and $230 million because they have a long-tail liability to them. And what is the issue with CodeMark? We've seen the issue around the aluminium composite panels earlier this year. I was concerned. I questioned the Minister back in June. What she said to me—this issue about this product which affects the safety of buildings—she said it was an operational matter—an operational matter—not one for her to be concerned about. But I am worried about it. Finally we've seen a little bit of action but we've still got a CodeMark system with only six people involved although one has currently been deregistered. And 50 percent of those consents have all been undertaken by one Australian-based certifier. I am concerned that we're not making progress on that issue.The last one I want to talk about is subcontractor arrangements. We've seen the recent failure of Ebert Construction. The Minister has been absolutely silent on this issue. She needs to be protecting subcontractors. Those are four issues in the building and construction sector and I'm increasingly coming to the view that the Minister for Building and Construction is following the lead of the Prime Minister when she is just saying I hope that something is going to happen.Kieran McAnulty: Point of order.TEMPORARY SPEAKER (Jenny Marcroft): Point of order—Kieran McAnulty: I'm only joking!"