Hudson Brett: Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill (No 2) — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHudson Brett: Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill (No 2) — First Reading[Sitting date: 04 May 2016. Volume:713;Page:10821. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]BRETT HUDSON (National): I rise in opposition to this bill and what can you say about it? It is a bill that is long on promises very short on detail and very very slow actually in any form of delivery at all. If we look at the bill in its substance—if I can stretch the meaning of that term to its fullest possible extent—the bill is going to hang around for 12 months before something has to be done once it is enacted. Then the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment will take 6 months to create a standard and then finally 18 months after enactment some houses might be required to have some level of insulation. We do not know yet because that is another part I will get to. So within 3 years I think—we have heard of calculations tonight that would suggest that maybe if the House were gracious enough to permit this bill to pass through all stages about 30000 homes may have met whatever that standard of insulation is in the 3-year time period. In the same time period under the changes this Government is currently putting into place there will be 180000 homes—Chris Bishop: How much?BRETT HUDSON: —180000 rental homes that are not currently insulated that will be. That is six times as many—six times as many. This is a Government that takes real pragmatic action. That is an Opposition that promises a whole lot has no substance behind the promise but does make a whole lot of promises that we do not know how it is going to back up. So let us get to that because the substance such as it is—there is no standard at all in this bill not one. Not for insulation not for ventilation—there is not a single standard.There is a promise that Labour will have the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment create standards. What is more one only has to read the wording of the bill—the ministry is creating standards. So they are not standards that exist today; the ministry is going to create and publish a standard. There are no minimums. There are no specifications. There is absolutely nothing in this bill that can give anyone any confidence other than the confidence that we have in the ministry on this side—nothing that can give the public any confidence as to the specifications and the level of those standards.But on the positive because there is a positive in this bill—in fact in the reading of the bill from the Leader of the Opposition tonight the real positive is that in putting the bill forward with this wording the Leader of the Opposition has just expressed his utmost confidence in the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment to get it right. And that is one thing where we can absolutely agree with him. But he might want to have a chat to his colleague Dr David Clark. I sit on the Commerce Committee with Dr Clark and Dr Clark has clearly shown that he does not have that confidence in the ministry. So he might want to have a chat to his colleague because the Leader of the Opposition is claiming that he can rely on the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment: “I don’t need to set some standards; MBIE will get this right.”Once again the Labour Government has put up a member’s bill that is long on promises and short on detail. It is asking this House and the public to believe Labour when at the last count at the last poll less than 28 percent of the country were prepared to believe what he says. I oppose this bill.