Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): Let us go back—well not back; it is still around—to that amazing game of Monopoly where we sit around looking at a board we move properties around and we throw our money in the middle. Basically we should be able to have the desire to prevent New Zealand being played around with in this way. You can sit around in a room—today it is probably on the internet—have a look at what is available in that country over there and have a little bit of a play around: We've got spare money we've got spare cash—I'll take that. I've never been there I perhaps never will; I'll take that and I'll take that." Other countries have decided that they cannot live with that—plenty of other countries. For example in Vancouver there is a new 15 percent stamp duty tax on overseas buyers. Other countries have had the courage to do what is right. Australia as we keep hearing does not sell land to foreign investors unless they are going to build a new house on it. So other countries have been as appalled as we should all be and have put in place rules to ensure that all of our New Zealanders first have a fair go at being able to buy our own houses and land. All of our New Zealand residents—our Chinese New Zealand residents our Japanese New Zealand residents our Mexican New Zealand residents all of our New Zealand residents—should have a go first at being able to buy our houses and our land. To live here to be part of the community to contribute back to be able to contribute to your local schools and your local jobs—all of these are the things that happen when you are invested in your community and your surroundings when you are genuinely connected to what is going on around you and you are willing to invest your money into your own community. So why Government would we not want to fight for that? I do not understand—well perhaps I do but I might not be able to share the language on that in this Chamber.So why would we not want to fight for that—and at least know about it? Hey at least why would we not want to know what is going on with numbers? How about that at least? For example in Ōtara and my colleague Jenny Salesa often points this out sales of homes are now 80 percent to investors. This is up from 62 percent in 2010. We should at least be able to know very clearly who of those are not residents here in Aotearoa New Zealand. In Manurewa where I live and rent my home sales to investors are 68 percent. Bear in mind these two percentage points of sales to investors are higher than the country's percentage rate of sales to investors. Again we want to stick up for the communities that are being most hampered. We want to find out for those communities my community and Jenny's community what is happening with sales there at the very least. But mostly we do want to put a ban which is why the Greens are supporting this amendment to this part of the bill. We do absolutely want to put a ban and see how that goes. See how it impacts. At least do that.I wanted to take just a short call but one of the other points I wanted to raise is that for tangata whenua this has an even yuckier taste: when we are feeling on our whenua that we are tenants in our own whenua. Again why would we not want to fight for that? Tangata whenua our indigenous people our mana motuhake people—why would we not want to fight to understand who is buying our homes and our lands how we can find that out and also to let us put up a ban? Let us see how this is going to impact on our country because we do stand by our own residents all of our own Aotearoa residents. Kia ora."