Sio WilliamSu'a WILLIAM SIO (Labour—Māngere): Earlier today during question time I suspected that the general public who observed our question time would have noted the way that Andrew Little questioned the Prime Minister over the housing issue. They would have noticed the stark difference in style and manner towards this particular issue. Andrew was probing and showing that he cares and is taking this issue very seriously. On the other hand when you looked at the Prime Minister you would have seen that he did not take this issue seriously. He evaded as he always does. He does not take this issue seriously. He shows he does not care. In fact he continues the blame game and today we heard him blame local government for the failure to erect more houses. I would say that is a reflection of how he and his Government continue to behave and treat this issue—the crisis that we currently have. I would say it is also a reflection of the arrogance that he continues to display and the fact that he does not care about ordinary working New Zealanders who are struggling to make ends meet and who are nervous about their future and nervous about how they house their families. We have seen lately how this Government's arrogance and out-of-touch attitude is reflected by the polls. My colleague Denis O'Rourke from New Zealand First said that this Government does not have a comprehensive plan. This Government uses those words a comprehensive plan" for housing when in reality nobody in New Zealand believes it. If the Government did have a plan I suspect that these are the elements of that particular plan: emergency housing grants that cover only 7 days when it takes the Government 155 days to house the homeless—that is one factor—or funding for new emergency housing places which turn out to be largely existing places; or paying the homeless $5000 to get out of Auckland; or special housing areas which have built only 1000 houses; or cutting building tariffs which led to prices going up; or the surplus Crown land policy which promised 500 hectares and delivered only 13. Those are the elements of what the Government is calling its comprehensive plan which has amounted to zilch for the general public who are struggling with housing today. This is one of the reasons why community workers up and down this country are demanding results from this Government voicing their opposition in the media and organising and supporting community protests up and down the length of this country. It is because of their desire to impress upon this Government that its lack of action and its use of these sound bites about the comprehensive plan are not reflected at all in the quality—or lack of quality—of the standard of living that the general public are receiving. Why would people who would not protest normally protest during the cold winter at Park Up for Homes? Why would they protest in Māngere? Why would they protest in Ōtara? Why would they protest here in the capital Wellington? Why would they be supported by very high-profile sportspeople like David Tua who see with their own eyes just how hard things are for many ordinary families and particularly families with children? The most damning report issued by Statistics New Zealand—which reflects the lack of interest and the lack of care from this Government—is the report on net worth that we saw prior to the adjournment: net worth for Pākehā families $144000; net worth for Asian families $33000; net worth for Māori families $23000; and net worth for Pasifika families $12000. That is reflected in what we see on the streets where we have 42000 people who are classified by their own Government department as being in homeless situations. When a family with children is forced to live in a car those children are not in a position to reach their full potential. A child who is living in a car does not have space to properly rest does not have space to learn and to do their homework and is not going to be able to reach their full potential in school. So the point is that this Government has got it wrong."