Henare PeeniPEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. First of all I just want to pay tribute to Iwi Nicholson Ngāneko Minhinnick and of course my grand-uncle Mr Joe Shortland whom I share with our colleague Ria Bond. I farewell him; he will be buried at our marae tomorrow. My pāpā Joe Shortland he quite enjoyed tuna—not the kind of slippery tuna that my colleague Mr Kelvin Davis referred to earlier.Boy it has been one heck of a show over the past week. We have heard scandal sex drugs and—Hon Maggie Barry: Slave labour.PEENI HENARE: —who else knows what is going to come—I am going to come to that Maggie Barry. Anyway what I want to talk about is that I have looked over the Māori Party speeches in support of this Government over 7 years. Words like this come about when describing their relationship with this Government and of course the current Prime Minister: proud to be with this Government" "proud to have the leadership of Bill English" "great leadership and strong leadership shown by this Government" and "we support them". I wonder why the Māori Party has not said anything over the last couple of weeks because the words indicated in these speeches say they are joined at the hip. They are so joined at the hip that the Māori Party is also supporting the failed housing policies from this Government housing policies that have seen an increase in homelessness more emergency housing needed and not being supplied by this Government—in fact the taking of reserves in Tāmaki-makau-rau to solve the crisis that it has been ignoring for 9 long years.I think about that housing crisis and I wonder when the Māori Party decided to come up with this concept called Kāinga Ora launched in October 2015. Up until the end of May 2017 how many homes have been built? Eleven homes. In my electorate of Tāmaki Makaurau the electorate with the greatest need for housing in this country how many homes have been built? None. Zero. So I also ask how many dollars have been given to trying to work through some processes to solve the housing crisis in Tāmaki-makau-rau. The answer is none zero dollars nothing. The place that needs it the most—Tāmaki-makau-rau Auckland—was given nothing.I want to stay in Tāmaki-makau-rau the great electorate of Tāmaki Makaurau and I want to say to my people of Te Awataha Marae: those people on that side of the House do not know that my grandfather built that marae and opened that marae. This Government calls marae slums now. This Government though was slow to assist Te Puea Marae 1 year ago when it solved the homelessness crisis facing Tāmaki-makau-rau. It was slow to help Manurewa Marae which did exactly the same. Yet when things are going well when the Kai Tahu marae at Kaikōura came to the assistance of the people of Kaikōura after the earthquake the Government was there to pat them on the back and say well done. The Government came too late to the party with Te Puea Marae. Oh but it was certainly there when accolades were being handed out. Those members were patting themselves on the back. This is just not good enough—this is just not good enough.In September this year this country has got to make a decision. It has got to make a decision as to whether or not it chooses a leader that is the slippery tuna that my colleague Kelvin Davis referred to the kind of leader that is not fronting up to the issues that are facing our people the people of Tāmaki-makau-rau: the lack of investment in infrastructure the lack of investment in housing and the lack of true investment in Māori development. In September the people will get a chance to choose.I just want to say one more thing: just recently there has been an announcement of the One Pacific party. It is joined now at the hip with the Māori Party and I wonder just how much of an equitable say it will have in that party when it is already crowded at the top. Let us have a look at who is at the top: Hone Harawira Te Ururoa Flavell Marama Fox Rāhui Papa Howie Tāmati. I say to the Pacific people and to One Pacific: actually are you taking your people in the right direction? I am going to argue no—no. In Tāmaki-makau-rau in particular where there is a large Pacific Island community; in Ōtautahi in Christchurch the same; and here in Te Whanga-nui-a-Tara Wellington—I say to the Pacific people please go into the voting booth on 23 September with your eyes wide open.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."