Simpson ScottHon SCOTT SIMPSON (National—Coromandel): Well thank you Madam Speaker. I listened carefully to the chair of the Environment Committee and the Minister for Urban Development who spoke first in this third reading debate and neither one of them actually clearly enunciated what this bill does what it's about. And the reason they didn't is because it does very little. It's kind of like a Christmas stocking stuffer of a cheap variety that is a terrible disappointment when you come to find it in your Christmas stocking on the day—Erica Stanford: $2 Shop present.Hon SCOTT SIMPSON: It's a $2 Shop type of Christmas present—because this is a bill that was designed in two parts. Well there are two pieces of legislation required to actually make this new thing fly. This bill all it does is establish a new Crown entity—that's all it does a new Crown entity. It's a Crown entity made up of three existing agencies that include the merging of Housing New Zealand its development subsidiary HLC and the skeletal bones of what used to be the KiwiBuild unit. It puts it into one unit but it doesn't empower anything to happen after that. There's going to be another piece of legislation that will have to be introduced by the Minister later this year or early next year—depending on how slow they can make the legislative programme go—and one wonders why. Well it's because there isn't much in the legislative programme at the moment. So here was a bill that was sent to the Environment Committee; it's effectively a bill that creates a Crown entity. It was sent to a select committee that had almost no work on its agenda to give the committee something to do and so last night we had the ridiculous situation of the Government filibustering its own bill to try and slow it down. Why would the Government want to do that?—because there's nothing in the pipeline. There's nothing happening over there on that side. It is a deliberate plan to slow things down. Now on this side we're opposing this bill not because the establishment of an Urban Development Authority is not necessarily a good idea; we are opposed to it because simply doing it without substantive real dedicated reform to the Resource Management Act makes this piece of legislation frankly a joke. The real stumbling block to building homes and getting homes built fast is actually the rules that have been developed over years through the Resource Management Act that prevent homes being built faster. The merging of existing entities simply in the hope that a better outcome will be obtained is nothing more than futile. So we are opposing it because we just think that the merging of these three entities achieves nothing of itself. Indeed the Minister knows that because he's going to have to introduce a more substantive piece of legislation to give this piece of legislation some shape and form later in this Parliament time frame. It's well known that the vast majority of houses built in New Zealand are actually built by the private sector. They're developed. They're built by entrepreneurs and developers who can see an opportunity in a market to build homes. Now the Government tried to do this a little bit on their own with KiwiBuild and failed utterly—absolute humiliating disastrous failure. What this bill fails to do is it fails to acknowledge the needs of the private sector which are simply not addressed or met in this bill. For that reason alone we oppose it.