Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): So yes I am here for the second reading. I am still not supporting the Housing Legislation Amendment Bill—that has not changed.Metiria Turei: It's only been an hour.MARAMA DAVIDSON: I know. Actually by the way before I carry on who was it who riled up the Minister for Building and Housing? Was it you Phil? I think it might have been Carmel or Denis. Actually it was probably Metiria. Who riled him up? Someone riled him up. He got up and he felt it necessary to defend the houses being built and the consents. He is such a good Minister he got up and said: But look at the houses I built; look at the consents I agreed to." Those are his measurements of success. Those are not measurements of success. That is not an indicator of how well our country is doing when you get up and have a little rant about how many houses you have built—just a raw number; it was not even in any context. He did not even talk about the number of State houses that the Government has either flogged off and not replaced or in comparison the number that have been left to rot and are currently empty.If we had gone through the proper democratic process for this bill we would have heard from submitters. We would have heard from people including those like the ones that the Greens and Labour and the Māori Party heard from in our homelessness inquiry. They were very clear when they said that all of the Government's proposals to date all the of the Government's actions to date and any of the proposals—including the little panic one we had yesterday from the Minister Paula Bennett to try to sort of make her look sympathetic to us wrapping up our homelessness inquiry—were inadequate. We would have heard submitters saying how woefully woefully inadequate these band-aid attempts are including this legislation.So because we have not heard from them I wanted to make sure that I brought their voices and their say into this House of Representatives. As my co-leader Metiria Turei just pointed out that is what we are. We are supposed to be representative of our country not just of developers and not just of overseas speculators whom this Government is continuing to enable to build more wealth while our own beautiful people our beautiful people whom I love—do you love them Government? Do you love our people?—are the ones in garages crowding in houses or just even renting homes that they could easily be shoved out of at any time. You know why? Because the housing market is amazing! Owners—because of this Government—are able to flick off a house in Auckland and also give as little as 90 days' notice to be able to do that to any family to any tenants and to any renters because they will get a massive profit. So it is preferable to be able to shove our people our beautiful New Zealanders out of their rental homes and out of their secure places rather than to actually allow houses to be a home where people can put down roots.This bill does not do anything to address that—this bill does not. In actual fact the attempt to specifically address land banking in the special housing areas only goes so far as to impose a time limit for consent applications—that is it. It does not actually put any time limit on the actual building—just for getting a consent in. It is a half again: half mop half band-aid; a half-a-fire hose attempt at fixing this crisis.Just very quickly in my last minute even the Cabinet papers admit that this was a rush because the regulatory impact statement did not even cover the entire bill—that is how rushed this was. Also Mr Smith the Minister oversold this to his own Cabinet. He said that if this bill was not rushed through it was going to prevent 3000 homes from being built; then this morning he had to concede that that figure was actually 2000. What is going on? What is going on Minister? I do not know what is going on—you are just overselling legislation to your own Cabinet. I will just leave it there. Thanks."