O'Connor Simon; Faafoi KrisSIMON O'CONNOR (National—Tāmaki): I want to acknowledge one of the comments from the Minister in the chair the Hon Kris Faafoi: It's time for change." I suspect he was referencing the bill; I might like to think it was about something else.Secondly I think it's fundamentally from this side—I know it's committee stage the Minister is absolutely right that this is only a few people. But our concern on this side to the extent that this is a statement and a question is that in attempting to address the very few the bill is actually going to affect pretty much everybody and arguably landlords disproportionately.My question though is around Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) 565. If the Minister could explain to the House why he tabled it at 2.56 p.m. today a little over an hour ago.Hon KRIS FAAFOI (Associate Minister of Housing (Public Housing)): Quite simple. I've been waiting for this stage or the bill to be debated in the House and that's when the Government saw fit.SIMON O'CONNOR (National—Tāmaki): Is it not usual and a courtesy to the democracy of this Parliament that actually—Hon Members: Ha ha!SIMON O'CONNOR: And there we go: the Government couldn't care less.Hon Peeni Henare: The House is still sitting chief.SIMON O'CONNOR: Couldn't care less and someone else has said the House has been sitting. It may have failed that Minister's understanding that the House has been sitting since 9 a.m. this morning.So maybe I could ask when Minister—and your officials will certainly be able to tell me this—was the Supplementary Order Paper ready?Hon KRIS FAAFOI (Associate Minister of Housing (Public Housing)): The Supplementary Order Paper was ready for tabling roughly during my speech.SIMON O'CONNOR (National—Tāmaki): Is the Minister therefore confirming his supernatural powers that he's able to write 15 pages of documentation have them tabled and printed within seconds of his speech?Hon KRIS FAAFOI (Associate Minister of Housing (Public Housing)): For the member I don't possess any supernatural powers.SIMON O'CONNOR (National—Tāmaki): So again would the Minister like to confirm to the committee when the Supplementary Order Paper which has been properly formatted drafted and was in the hands of the Table Office when it was ready?Hon KRIS FAAFOI (Associate Minister of Housing (Public Housing)): To address the member's question we've been working for some time on the amendments within the bill trying to match up the time frames with the termination of the rent freezes around the COVID rent freezes that were brought in under emergency legislation; also to make sure that that matched up with the 12-month rent increase and bringing that forward in the bill to make sure that they are aligned. Otherwise there would have been a gap between the end of the COVID rent freeze and the beginning of the 12-month rent freeze that was already within the bill. The family violence components of the SOP we've been working on for some time; it certainly was something that I was watching very closely from the Social Services and Community Committee and asked officials as to whether or not that could be changed and I do think it's an extremely good component of the SOP. So to answer the member's question we've been working on it for some time because I wanted to make sure that we get that right.SIMON O'CONNOR (National—Tāmaki): Could the Minister confirm to the House who he or his officials may have consulted around the SOP. Was there—obviously tenant groups landlord groups—wide consultation?Hon KRIS FAAFOI (Associate Minister of Housing (Public Housing)): I don't think I can give you particulars but I understand there was limited time in order to consult with appropriate stakeholders obviously especially around the family violence component of the SOP. Again some of the issues that are within the SOP came from the select committee but also some of the issues arose because of the concern the Government had around particular components around rent freezes and the introduction of the 12-month increase of rents within the bill as it stood.SIMON O'CONNOR (National—Tāmaki): To thank the Minister obviously I'm not particularly thrilled that an SOP to me feels like it was withheld from the House when it could have been put in front of us earlier because actually there are elements within it Minister that I think this side is comfortable with and supports. The question though is: is he able to give the House—and this goes much broader than the SOP. Have there been any projections done by his officials around how many private landlords might exit the market as a consequence of this legislation?Hon KRIS FAAFOI (Associate Minister of Housing (Public Housing)): Look I wouldn't necessarily take for granted that that is going to happen. Certainly the data that has been afforded me over the last just a little over a year has suggested that in the time that we've been considering these changes—obviously the consultation first happened under Minister Twyford as the Minister of Housing and then this piece of legislation was introduced. So this has been no surprise. The data that has been given to me is that actually the number of rental properties available on the market has increased. Again using the contribution of Mr McKelvie he has said the majority of landlords and tenants will not have to worry about the changes in the amendments within this bill and I agree with Mr McKelvie. But again there are over the last 3½ decades issues that have compiled that need addressing and we believe we've got the balance right here in this bill."