Wood Michael; Woods MeganHon MICHAEL WOOD (Labour—Mt Roskill): I'd be keen to ask the Minister a brief question about the large-scale programme work which is a significant part of the investment profile in the Estimates and a key part of providing more houses across our public and market provision. What I'm particularly interested in in my question is the fact that within the large-scale projects (LSPs) the Government is not just building houses; it is redeveloping whole communities. One of the questions that people often have is well what about the infrastructure that goes alongside that and whether it is going to be sufficient to deal with the various challenges that we face and I wonder if the Minister could talk to us a little bit about what we are seeing in terms of the performance of those LSPs that are substantially complete or a long way along the track in respect of the extreme weather earlier this year and the performance of the infrastructure that was put in there. I think that's important in terms of looking ahead as these developments go forward to ensure that people have confidence that they're going to be up to scratch to face those challenges. Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Housing): Thank you Madam Chair and I thank the member Michael Woods for the question. So our large-scale projects that are happening across several suburbs in Auckland and of course in Minister Edmonds' own suburb of Porirua are areas where not only is Kāinga Ora investing in the upgrade of infrastructure but central government is directly also—for the first time really since the 1970s—through the Infrastructure Acceleration Fund going in and doing quite large-scale upgrades of the infrastructure in these communities and neighbourhoods. Indeed in the electorate of the member who asked the question in some of the shovel-ready projects some of those early projects were stormwater upgrades in Roskill that had already been completed and we're seeing the benefits of that and we certainly did in the floods earlier this year. I think if we look at Northcote if we look at Roskill and we look at Māngere and at how those areas performed in those devastating floods we can see the proof of the pudding. We had Northcote which had been an area where the town centre had traditionally flooded and would have in an equivalent event in Auckland but we saw that it had drained within 15 hours. The retention of the water in the stormwater provisioning that was there meant that that was a community that didn't suffer the same consequences. Likewise in parts of Roskill where we've done those upgrades—and the member will be well aware of these in his own electorate—we saw the ability of the infrastructure to cope with that extreme weather having been sufficiently improved and likewise in Māngere as well. So we need to be thinking several things when we're making decisions about where it is that we build our houses. When we're building for climate change we need to think about what we're building and we need to think about where we're building it. But in terms of where we're building it we need to think about that ability of the existing infrastructure to cope or we need to think about what we need to be investing to ensure that we are upgrading it and of course we also need to be ensuring that we know that we're not building on sites that are going to become increasingly untenable as we continue through the decades of this century.