Eagle Paul; Rurawhe AdrianPAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai): Thank you Mr Speaker and it's a pleasure to talk on this the Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill (No 2) for the third time for its third reading and—Andrew Bayly: Paul. [Member gestures for speaker to finish]PAUL EAGLE: —shush—can I just say as a member of the Governance and Administration Committee it's been a pleasure to finish this off. There's been a lot of like Oh you know what about him?" and "We started it" and all this sort of stuff. Frankly no one cares. What they care about is that this gets through this place and it gets implemented—that's all. No one's watching the TV even though some people think they are. But can I just say with some dignity to acknowledge all of those people who have contributed from start to finish—how about that? That sounds pretty dignified to me.I do want to acknowledge the Hon Dr Nick Smith—there you go. But also the Ministers on this side of the House: Minister Twyford Minister Faafoi and of course the chair of our wonderful select committee Brett Hudson who I think did a great job at—and it's been talked about already—a collaborative effort in getting this through. So there we are.I want to just step back though and say this is in response to the housing crisis and some on that side don't believe there ever was one. One of the things that I used to—and I'd say "chuckle at" but in all seriousness there was no housing Minister until this Government became Government; until we got in in plain English because it used to astound me that you could have a housing crisis but no Minister. So what you'd have is you'd have building and construction someone responsible for Housing New Zealand Corporation and then social housing but no one and no team. There were some devious means I think—or maybe some intentions there that weren't honourable. So there we are.But what I can say is that if we look at what's happened if we look at setting the scene for this bill it's been no mean feat and I want to just mirror the words of Minister Faafoi who said there's been lots of groundwork done. We have set up the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. We are putting through Kainga Ora—Homes and Communities. Those should've been done a decade ago and things like this would've just come through those agencies but—and I want to commend Minister Twyford again for getting the nuts and bolts of the housing crisis inbuilt and for sorting it out and he deserves every accolade possible for that.When I look at the housing continuum this is a small but important part of that; part of our package I guess with our housing team of Ministers and my colleagues who have got housing top of mind because something was said in the general debate first up by Minister Grant Robertson and it was "Every New Zealander gets a fair go." Having a home is fundamental to that. Three things that this bill talks about. I said in the committee stage that clarity around the law in respect to tenant liability damage and ensuring that this bill applies to all premises intended for residential use even if they are unlawful for residents and there are examples of that.Then of course—and plenty of you have talked about the rights and responsibilities in terms of contaminants and contamination—the select committee went through those words and what they mean and how to describe that in some depth but specifically related that to meth or P. I think just to go back on that first one I mentioned during the committee stage too that I've had plenty of constituents come in and talk about the need for clarity around just the way they are treated by landlords and vice versa. This isn't an attack on them but this is calling out what I deem to be unacceptable behaviour.In terms of those unlawful places—premises deemed unlawful—the best example is just here in Molesworth Street number 61 where there was a building that had to come down. People were paying $300 a week. I'm glad that the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment got into action and got that money back for them. They were vulnerable and they were booted out. This sorts that out and of course the meth standards—that was wrong it was shameful. I often used to think was this a way to ignite or activate the biggest asset sale that we've ever seen—68000 or so houses. "Let's kick out the tenants. Let's sell them off. Do it this way. Make it easy." I commend this bill to the House. Thank you Mr Speaker.ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I call the Hon Dr Nick Smith—five minutes."