Ngaro AlfredALFRED NGARO (National): I rise to take a call on the second reading of this bill. I just realised as the member Phil Twyford was speaking—I came up with a good fund-raising idea for Mr Phil Twyford. Because of all the flip-flopping he should have a pair of jandals called Phil's Flip-Flops". It sort of goes on and off on and off as a fund-raising idea. Why? Because the reality is that that is what we have even from that speech. In the first reading Labour members stood up and said: "We oppose this bill. However if we separate the bill we can support the first part but not the second part of the bill."The first part of the bill is obviously the amendment to the Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Act which would allow for another 3-year period and yet Phil Twyford went on in his speech to continue to bag all of the things about the special housing accord Act in itself and what it enables: the fast-tracking of consenting to allow for rezoning for those particular areas. On the one hand Labour says it supports it; but on the other hand: "Hang on it's not that great. It doesn't work. But we'll go back again and we'll support it." If he would just make up his mind—but I actually think that greater than Havaianas could be "Phil's Flip-Flops". That is a good fund-raising idea.That is the sort of speech that we are hearing from the other side. He knows—when it came to the LVRs the loan-to-value ratios he said: "Not a good idea." All of a sudden Labour members came in: "It's a great idea." Metropolitan urban limits—not a good idea but all of a sudden it is a great idea. Devolving stock into the community housing providers—what happened? "It's a great idea" and then "Not a good idea."—flip-flop flip-flop.This is a comprehensive plan. The special housing areas are not the silver bullet but they add to the tool box that we know is important in addressing these issues. As for the tool box—why? The Productivity Commission report states that "consenting and the slow process we know is critical. We know it's not the whole but is one part of the reasons why we need to build."Denis O'Rourke: Table this comprehensive plan. Don't just talk about it—show us it.ALFRED NGARO: So Mr Denis O'Rourke—you want to say "Show me the money. Show me the houses." so let us talk about this. In June of this year 2016 the special housing areas—let us talk about the results: 1300 homes have been completed 2200 building consents have been issued 2458 new sections have been created and 7170 new sections have been granted resource consents out of the 154 special housing areas in Auckland. We know that is good news we know it is making a difference—26 have been built on capacity of 29800 15 have earthworks under capacity 5300 and 88 are in the same stage of the planning process. That is not just talk; those are results. They are facts. That is what is happening.I know that it is not happening faster; we want it to happen quicker as well. Actually the points that were made by previous speakers that only 25 out of the 154 special housing areas have not had consents or plan changes lodged 16 of which were declared in February and May of this year—hence the reason why when the question was "Why do we need to put this under urgency?" we need to ensure that we extend the period of time that is critically important to this bill and we think that is important as well.Here is the other thing about what it will do: it will allow for plan variation for applications that have begun but are not completed under the current Act to continue when a proposed district plan becomes operative. We know that the unitary plan now that it has finally gone through the Auckland Council allows for that; hence the reason why the extension will imply that as well. The other thing that I think is important which maybe gets missed is that it will also encourage and impose the fact that the consenting and the lodging of those consents for housing must be done within a 12-month period of time. We think that is important. It will be able to fast track the ability to say that if you are going to apply for a special housing accord area then you need to enact that within a certain period of time. We think that is important as well.Why the 3 years? House prices continue to rise and the supply of housing continues to lag behind demand. The extension of this by 3 years will allow for additional special housing areas to be established and it will provide a faster housing development and increase housing supply. We think that is critically important as well.I just want to finish off my speech here in the second reading by talking about some of the results that we think are critically important around this area. Again this is part of a suite of tools that we think are important. There are 85000 new houses to be built in this term of Parliament and 40 houses are built every working day. When the National Party came into Government in 2008 there were on average 10 houses being built every day. We know that it is making a difference exactly at 40 houses being built every working day in Auckland. This is four times what it was when National was elected in 2008. Over 2000 homes are to be built on Crown land. We have freed up land in Auckland and in Christchurch. We know that it is making a difference. We think this is important. We see it as pragmatic.I know that Mr Phil Twyford supports it because he has said so. It is only the second party that does not support it. But when we talk about this bill and what it is enabling us in regard to building more—to the demand—we think it is making a difference. I commend this bill to the House."