King Annette: Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Bill — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKing Annette: Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Bill — In Committee[Sitting date: 03 September 2013. Volume:693;Page:13206. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon ANNETTE KING (Labour—Rongotai): In the debate on this part of the Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Bill there have been several attempts to give it a correct title. I opened up theDominion Postthis afternoon and found the perfect title for this bill on page 2: the “First Rung of the Property Ladder (Tough Climb) Bill.” What we do know is that this bill has very little to do with people who want to buy their first home getting into a home. So let us try the “First Rung of the Ladder (Tough Climb) Bill” because Minister it is going to be an awfully tough climb to get into a house as a first home owner under this Government. This bill is nothing more than flimflam when it comes to affordable housing. We have found that out as we have debated this today.Then I look further on page 2 of theDominion Post and I find a headline that says: “Buying a home with a low deposit gets even harder.” It is interesting is it not that commentators—not Labour politicians or the Greens or New Zealand First—writing stories about housing are telling New Zealanders that nothing this Government is doing is helping them to get into a home.Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga: You’ve had a shot Annette. You’ve had your shot.Hon ANNETTE KING: Low deposits are getting even harder—for the member from Maungakiekie who is interjecting. Getting on the property ladder has just become harder with banks nudging up fees charged to borrowers with small deposits.What we are finding out is that this bill ought to have a title that reflects what is happening. I think it was the Law Commission that said that we often have bills that have grand titles that do not relate to what the bills actually mean. I think we need to have a title so that people are not misled about what this grand bill that the Minister of Housing has introduced in a flurry of activity with only 2 weeks of submissions for people to look at it—Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga: Not true.Hon ANNETTE KING: “Not true.” said the chair of the Social Services Committee. Have I got something wrong? Have I got something wrong Mr Chair? He walked to the Table and said when I said it was 2 weeks for submissions that it wasnot true. Would the member like to correct me if I am not correct? Well I believe those on the Social Services Committee would know. Perhaps the chair of the select committee was not there? Well if he was there his mind was not there. So I believe that we ought to have a bill that is correctly named as the Law Commission often said. Perhaps the Minister is going to take a call because one of the things that he did not do before dinner was take a call and answer some of the questions that could have helped give this bill a proper title.Hon Dr Nick Smith: Because the member didn’t bother to read the bill. It’s in the bill.Hon ANNETTE KING: He has got his opportunity instead of just sitting there flapping his lips. He could stand up and he could answer some of those questions that would maybe give us the correct title. One of them is about affordable housing and his—Hon Dr Nick Smith: The lazy member should read the bill.Hon ANNETTE KING: Oh! I am certainly not lazy but I do not make things up like that Minister. He has got a record of making things up and of creating figures and facts to suit himself. So I think perhaps that he might like to get to his feet and tell us about the Order in Council. Tell us about the Order—Hon Christopher Finlayson: Lazy and embittered.Hon ANNETTE KING: I see my cousin over there up to his usual tricks—a few nasty jabs and gibes. He can never debate a single issue without throwing in some nastiness. I do not know how it is I ever got related to him. It is not in our side of the family. So I have to say to the Minister: get to your feet Minister. Get to your feet and answer the questions about when the Order in Council will be introduced what will be in that Order in Council and then maybe—just maybe—this bill could have its correct title.