Bayly AndrewANDREW BAYLY (National—Hunua): Thank you Madam Chair. Well we waited and we waited and we waited and I think we're still waiting Madam Chair. Nine months in—you know five postponements and of course we were waiting for those targets. Guess what! No targets. In fact this has got to be the biggest anti-climax from any Government for so long that most people can't remember. This is absolute damp squib - type of material. It is unbelievable that we've had a Government in power for over 20 months who have delayed and obfuscated and mucked around only now to finally come to the realisation they can't deliver it. They've mucked around and now they come out with a pronouncement saying they cannot say how many they're going to build.I've just listened to the Minister talking before talking about all the stuff that she used to give us a hard time for and certainly the former Minister of Housing and Urban Development the Hon Phil Twyford who used to say those rejoinders like You can't live in a consent." Well in fact that's just what I've heard. I've just heard the Minister talking about how many houses are being built—Hon Gerry Brownlee: Planned.ANDREW BAYLY: Well where you can't—and planned. You can't live in a plan. You can't live in a consent and that is the issue. When this Government this New Zealand First - Labour - Greens Government made this wonderful pronouncement prior to the 2017 election that they were going to build those 100000 homes over 10 years—you know it's one of those pronouncements that you think can sound great a fantastic sound bite wonderfully worked out by some PR agency but unfortunately you actually have to do a bit of work to make it happen. Well haven't the turkeys come home to roost.It's no surprise because for these types of things only God can make pronouncements like that—that we're going to build 100000 homes over 10 years—and actually do nothing about it. This is the issue—this is the issue. This is a Government that does not know how to implement. It's good on the rhetoric but poor on the detail. And here we are 20 months later 258 houses—a miserable poor outcome. Unfortunately we actually wanted them to build houses. New Zealanders want us to build houses. We all recognise that and the more houses we build the better. But this is a Government so inept at implementing and planning it's in fact—another word for it—incompetent. The reason it's failed is—I think that a good analogy is a CEO going into a boardroom and saying to all the board and the management team "We are going to triple sales over the next three years—triple sales over the next three years." Everyone in that room would be asking questions like "What products are we going to sell?"; "How are we going to manufacture them?"; "How are we going to distribute them?"; "How are we going to price those products?"; "Do we have enough staff to build them?"Those are all the types of questions that you would have got in a business world. That's the type of thing that this Government should have done back in 2017. But unfortunately no one in that Government sought to ask those hard questions. That just shows how inept they are. We've got New Zealand First saying you know that they're the pragmatic business orientated party yet they didn't ask any questions. They didn't. It's all show and no doing—no doing. That's the problem. So in the context of this sector—CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): Speaking of context it would be nice if you just mentioned the Estimates at some stage. ANDREW BAYLY: Right.Hon Gerry Brownlee: Explain the $200 million underwrite.ANDREW BAYLY: Yeah and the Estimates—that's right Madam Chair—it's huge things. If you talk about the 2 billion bucks if you're going to build the $2 billion spend it on these homes. Why aren't you dealing with some of those issues that any business person would have asked themselves: where are we going to get the shortfall of people to build those homes? And I haven't heard any of the Ministers either the Minister of Housing or the Minister for Building and Construction talking about it. In fact all this Government's done over the last 20 months is—Hon Gerry Brownlee: Is it going to be better in the next 20 months—12 months?ANDREW BAYLY: No Mr Brownlee. It's going to get worse because this Government's going to rip apart the only organisation that's good at training apprentices the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation. They are going to get ripped apart. So we're now in a situation where we won't have the people. We've got issues with consenting—heard nothing about that. We've heard nothing about promoting new products and technologies and we've heard nothing about off-site manufacturing."