Faafoi Kris; Tolley AnneHon KRIS FAAFOI (Minister of Civil Defence): Thank you very much Madam Chair. It's slightly ironic that Dr Nick Smith began his speech with a joke about coughing and spluttering when he was the housing Minister responsible for a hell of a lot of coughing and spluttering within the Housing New Zealand homes that he was responsible for during his tenure in housing. The period that we are debating here was a lot of the election period and during that election period one of the houses that I visited in Linden in my electorate which was a State house had a roof that I put my finger through because of the moisture and the rain that was working its way through the roof and into the ceiling therefore meaning that the family that lived in the house was in fact coughing and spluttering causing issues for that family that were well beyond just the house in the school and then taking them to the doctor's and the hospital. So I find it slightly ironic that the member who just resumed his seat would make a joke about coughing and spluttering when he was responsible for the degradation of the Housing New Zealand system which has caused a hell of a lot of coughing and spluttering.Also I'd like to talk about some of the campaigning that we did in our electorate around a piece of land in the Castor Loop. The Housing New Zealand houses were demolished on that piece of land back in 2010 and 2011 but we spent a lot of time pressuring Housing New Zealand pressuring the previous Government to build some houses on that land. Nothing was done for six years and in the seventh year we were pushing very hard to make sure that something was done. During an interjection during another speech the Hon Tim Macindoe said that some of these houses were demolished because they weren't in the right places and weren't appropriate. I would suggest that the land that I'm talking about is well placed for Housing New Zealand homes because there were homes there. What happened as a result of the removal of the homes is that the likes of local families had to move further afield the local school saw its numbers drop and it caused angst among the community because what looked like a park was in fact an empty hole in the community where Housing New Zealand homes should have been.So we pressured the Government after six years of inaction in that final year of their tenure in power to do something about this. Despite the attempts of myself as a local MP and of the local Catholic Church to get a march to highlight the need for more social housing in our area during that period that we're debating there was still nothing from the previous Government to put homes on that site—a travesty and a tragedy for that community in Porirua East. What I am proud to say is that in the first six months of this Government we have taken action to put 53 new State homes on that land which has lain bare since 2010-11. If people around the country and certainly in my electorate want to see the stark difference between the previous Government and our Government it's that plot of land—it's that plot of land which used to have homes on it that may have not been appropriate and which sat idle for six or seven years with the previous Government doing diddly squat about it and not providing homes in an area where there was certainly a demand for more social housing. I am proud to say that in this very short period of time since we've taken power that project to get those 53 homes built will start very soon.I thank the current Minister of Housing and Urban Development for making sure that there's some actual action on the empty plot of land that Mr Smith was responsible for in his time and that sat on his hands for years and did absolutely nothing. When we were looking for leadership from the previous Government during the period that we are debating: still nothing. So what I can say is that I'm proud we were able to campaign on issues that really matter to New Zealanders and that is housing. Mr Smith said Let's take a look into the real world." Well Mr Smith come into the real world. Come into that house in Linden where I was able to put my hand through a ceiling because the moisture there was so bad that it was causing issues for that family under his watch—under their watch—and they did absolutely nothing about it. So I'm proud to sit on this side of the House and talk about the six months that we've been in charge over here because we've done something that the previous Government didn't.CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): Just before I call the next speaker I have tried to remind members that we are discussing the appropriations. Whilst it's very interesting to give examples of policies from either side they must be related to the appropriations. That's the debate we're having."