Mitchell Clayton; Williams PotoCLAYTON MITCHELL (NZ First): Thank you Madam Chair. I tell you what mate you've got to be a bit brave and quick off the hips there mate. Put your guns away. Look I wasn't going to come down and speak to this bill tonight ladies and gentlemen but Madam Chair Williams—great to see you sitting there—I heard the Minister with his opening comments and I was just compelled to come down particularly when I got brought into the debate. Madam Chair I understand now what it feels like to be brought into the debate. I think I lost count at about seven Claytons in the House tonight. That's absolutely unheard of all right.I think this bill was probably more adequately named the Gerry Brownlee Bill" because it's more apt with the "You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It Too Bill". At the end of the day—[Madam Chair points to bill] I'm getting to that to the comments. I'm just catching up with everybody. But at the end of the day we have got a bill that is talking about bringing in some regulations over a period of time that is sustainable for landlords to bring in. Had we gone the other way and taken a retrospective legislative look at this problem that we've seen the National Party do for nine years we would have reversed it and opened it up and done it last week.Guess what—we've been in Government for only three sitting days. For three sitting days I get to hear the chirping in the chiming the chastising the mud-slinging the stone-throwing from a former Government that's had nine years to look after tenants. Now I can proudly say I'm a landlord and I'm not a slum dog landlord that we are trying to protect our tenants from. There is nothing wrong with capitalism; we are pro-capitalism. What we've got to do is give the face to capitalism—regulate capitalism to make sure we don't get what we've been having for a number of years.The vast majority of landlords around this country are responsible landlords that see their legal and moral obligation is to ensure that they provide warm safe dry homes that aren't full of moisture and black mould causing all sorts of problems with tenants. But there are those—I'm looking directly at you Mr Smith—landlords that don't abide by those moral obligations and this legislation brings into place over a timely fashion an ability for landlords to get themselves up to speed. That is ensuring that we have warm safe dry homes without mould causing all sorts of influential problems on our youth. Now that's a responsible approach.You can't have a "Gerry Brownlee Bill" here today. It's not a Clayton's bill all right—that's the bill you've got when you haven't really got one. In actual fact it probably is a Clayton's bill because this is a bill you've actually got when you've actually got a bill right? So I'll take that lads. Well done Mr Falloon "Mr What's-his-name"—I forget his name. I've got to learn these names—great speeches by the way. Mr Brown Simeon—great stuff. But I don't know if you own properties I don't know if you've rented for long I don't know what sort of price bracket you rent in but at the end of the day we have got a legal and moral obligation and this House is here to make laws.We're not here to regulate; that comes after we make the law. When you ask yourself—when you're sitting at home when you're sitting in your nice warm dry safe house think about those people that don't have a nice warm dry safe house to sleep in. You have an obligation as an elected member to ensure that we can deliver on all the necessities that the people that aren't as lucky as you can actually enjoy as well. So you can sit there and you can chirp away. You can say it's a Clayton's bill. You can say that it's a bill that you have got when you haven't got the bill—Hon Michael Woodhouse: You said that.CLAYTON MITCHELL: —but in actual fact—oh no they've said it like six times. I've still got five more to catch up; get these guys up to speed with it. That's why I call it the "Gerry Brownlee Bill" because you can't have your cake and eat it too Mr Woodhouse.Hon Members: Oh!CLAYTON MITCHELL: Now they're catching up—now they're catching up. Right so I just want to finish off this short call by saying that every journey starts with a step and this is the first step to actually ensuring we are looking after the vulnerable people in our society.I tell you what else—there's another step coming and there's a whole raft of steps that we're going to be taking looking after middle Kiwis bottom-end Kiwis instead of the top-end that we've been seeing being given privilege under that Government—the multinationals that don't pay their tax and now you can bring me in a little bit.At the end of the day we've got to create warm dry safe homes that are affordable to live in that actually can get Kiwis back into a home-owning democracy that we once used to enjoy. Even years ago under a National Government they used to enjoy that and where've they gone now? Absolutely deaf ears because you know you've sold yourself out to a country that used to look after those vulnerable people. We are there to restore the faith in this democratic House this Parliament to ensure that we deliver for all New Zealanders. Madam Chair thank you.The CHAIRPERSON (Poto Williams): Members if you could just resume your seats. I just want to remind members that this is supposed to be a robust and lively debate but the amount of heckling is actually turning into a bit of a barrage. So just respectful and useful interjections I would ask for. Thank you."