Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): I'm very pleased to be supporting Kāinga Ora today—Kāinga Ora—Homes and Communities. The Greens have always understood that we need to move away from using houses as a commodity and from building houses as opposed to co-designing communities with the very groups of people who are going to be living in the very houses. So this particular bill is the start of a new approach to developing homes and communities bringing under the Crown purview a collection of agencies and organisations including Housing New Zealand HLC the KiwiBuild unit and the housing assistance part of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development. The problem that we have long faced—in fact far too many decades long faced—is the ad hoc poorly planned particularly urban fringe development approach but actually our across-country development approach.So we are looking towards a solution where the Crown housing development overview has joined-up thinking to make sure that we are connecting people homes and designs to public transport to infrastructure to where people need to go to school and go to work and go to play. This is why we the Greens in particular have a particular interest in this direction because this new approach has incredible potential to transform the way that we do housing—a transformational approach that the Greens have long advocated for because the private sector has absolutely failed on its own to provide the affordable connected and sustainable communities that New Zealanders want and deserve.So we do need to do things differently and also as we tackle the challenge of climate change we need to ensure that we have buildings that are sustainable and inclusive in our future. Every housing development we think should have high-quality public transport linkages should be inclusive of the ways that diverse communities live and work and play and connect and should really recognise the interconnected wellbeing of people and the environment. We have not taken that overview and holistic approach in this country yet and we are today trying to clean that up and deal with the impact of a lack of joined-up thinking and less of a capability to be able to address the challenges—the very very real challenges—both on a daily house-by-house level and also the big challenges when it will come to designing communities around climate change but also inequality energy costs rising unaffordability and so forth. So we're excited by this potential. Yes we know that change brings risk so we want to be clear that we should ensure that we are building more State and public houses—absolutely. I want to congratulate Minister Kelvin Davis and Minister Nanaia Mahuta alongside Minister Phil Twyford for a specific section of the bill—here it is—that refers to the Māori interests. I think that needs to happen across bills and legislation which is a more enduring and sustainable way of approaching legislation in this House and will actually add value to how we design and do things. In Part 1 Subpart 1 Preliminary provisions" of the bill—I think it's clause 4—the Māori interests section provides recognition that the Crown needs to respect its "responsibility to consider and provide for Māori interests". It's not just a good thing to do to uphold the Tiriti partnership and there's quite a bit in that particular part of the bill but it is actually about drawing on the relationships and the knowledge the mātauranga from indigenous ways of thinking and living and adding that to our Crown approach and working properly with our partners to ensure that when Māori interests are upheld so are everyone else's. So I wanted to particularly congratulate the cohort of Ministers for working on that together and the Greens will be very interested in supporting and monitoring how all of that goes. Just to finish—Hon Gerry Brownlee: Oh thank goodness.MARAMA DAVIDSON: —the sustainable inclusive and—well for that—I know that the Hon Gerry Brownlee in particular likes to have a good listen. For that I might just outline some of the visions again of thriving communities in this bill which is what I'm talking about. This bill is about providing people with good quality affordable housing choices that meet diverse needs. This bill needs to uphold throughout its legislation supporting good access to jobs amenities and services—and that's why again the Greens are supporting this—sustaining and enhancing overall economic social environmental—Simon O'Connor: This sounds very expensive.MARAMA DAVIDSON: —and cultural wellbeing. What is expensive—coming from the Opposition—is if we don't maintain these sustainable visions for all of us. That is what is expensive. So this is leadership again and the Greens will be very interested in seeing that this reaches the potential that it should have. Thank you Mr Speaker."