Rurawhe Adrian: Annual Review Debate — In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRurawhe Adrian: Annual Review Debate — In Committee[Sitting date: 28 April 2015. Volume:704;Page:2980. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru):Tēnā koe e te W’are o te rā. Tēnā koutou katoa. I get really worried when I hear the Minister for Social Development talking about the house prices in Kawerau even at $53000 and seasonal workers. I get worried because since when can a seasonal worker go to Kawerau and earn enough money to get a deposit on a house even at $53000? It does not happen. There is a reason why the houses are $53000 and it is because no one is buying. That is the reason why. That is an example of arrogance. I am hearing in my mind: “Let them eat cake.” That is what I heard when the Minister said that—let them eat cake. That is like saying that you can attain something that is really unattainable. So it is rather annoying that that kind of arrogance is blatantly displayed in this Committee.I will give you another example. Last year in June we were told that the Māori housing fund announced by the Government would be given to Te Pou Matakana because it was working at the grassroots and it is the kind of organisation that can deliver on the Government’s housing policy. So why was it that in December of last year after the election and after the Māori Party and the Government went to the electorate and told it that this was how the Government was going to deliver its Māori housing policy to Māori it all changed? Why? What happened? What happened in December? Well I will tell you what happened. All those statements around Māori housing were made by the Hon—now Dame—Tariana Turia. If you do not believe me go and read her statements to the whole world from December last year. She was annoyed with her own party. She told her party that it had got it wrong.I am standing up here to say that that is an example of how the Government can change its policy—say one thing in June of last year and then in December of last year completely change it. Why is that? Well I think No. 1 you no longer have a Minister such as Minister Turia fighting for that policy. But I can tell you also that that policy to me is in danger of not being delivered. How many houses have actually been built since then? What has happened since June of last year until now around Māori housing? What has changed? To me what I can see is that nothing has changed. I look forward to seeing some changes. We need changes. We are talking about the most vulnerable whanau in our community. For the Minister to be standing here saying: “Well you could get a job in Kawerau and that might solve your housing problem.”—well sorry but you have lost your way.The Government has lost its way. Not only has the Government lost its way but its support parties have lost their way as well. Last year at the general election I think the Māori electorates saw that the Māori Party had lost its way. That is why Te Tai Tokerau Tāmaki-Makaurau Hauraki-Waikato Te Tai Hauāuru Ikaroa-Rāwhiti and Te Tai Tonga got it right. Waiariki sort of got it right in a way too because if you have a look at the numbers that voted against the incumbent you will see that they understood that as well. I stand here before you in this Committee to say that we need in 2017 a new Government. We need a good Minister of Housing who we would have with Phil Twyford. I think that is really important.I want to talk also about this artificial target with regard to housing and all the other policy areas. If you look it up in the dictionary I will tell you what the synonyms for “artificial” are: manufactured fabricated insincere false exaggerated and overdone.