Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): I am pleased to support my colleague Phil Twyford on behalf of the Green Party in this the first reading of the Overseas Investment (Protection of New Zealand Homebuyers) Amendment Bill. That is what this bill is about. I will tell you what is ugly—what is ugly is that New Zealand families of all nationalities and all backgrounds are being pushed out of their homes. That is why we support this bill because it is one tool—one of many tools—that the Government can and should use to rectify this situation and to lessen the environment that favours houses being used as a business.I want to talk a bit about Ōtara. My family are connected for I think four generations now to Ōtara. Ironically Ōtara is where my grandparents' generation was banished to in a sense. Ōtara was the place where the poorer working-class families went to. Ōtara was the place where Māori and Pacific Islanders were sort of pushed to because that is where it was OK. It is not a flash place; that is where it was OK for Māori and Pacific Island families to go to. So they did and they put down roots. They put down roots for generations. My family house in Hamill Road is one that I remember for three generations of my family. The houses in Ōtara and the families in Ōtara are being pushed out by the current crisis. They are being uprooted as investors and speculators—people using homes as a business—are able to overcharge rents and are also able to use the lack of rental protections to evict people and families just because they can charge those higher rents. So yes we do need to use every single tool that is available to us to rectify this housing crisis that is having real and dire consequences for New Zealand families right now—and that is what is ugly. The housing crisis is big and real. Being locked out of housing used to refer to not being able to buy a home. Today being locked out of housing means being locked out of even renting a home. We know this. I have been to Te Puea Marae twice in the past couple of weeks. I have been part of a Manurewa Marae cleaning bee—that marae is also preparing to respond to the failure that is currently happening in my own communities and trying to mop up the Government's mess in terms of this housing crisis. This bill is a tool that is fair and reasonable and will play an important part in rectifying the housing crisis. Actually what we need is a Government that will get in boots and all and work across Government across systems and across communities to prioritise addressing the housing crisis urgently and in the long term. If we do not what is happening today—the dire consequences that we are seeing today—will continue. Even if we did start today we will still see the fallout for some years and possibly decades to come. So we also need things like a strong State housing programme. But certainly a restriction on overseas investments on buying up homes in our country is a wise and sensible thing to do. It is not all of what we have to do but it certainly is one of the tools that we must be employing.We support this bill because it has conditions in it whereby we would actually still welcome overseas investment if it was indeed to be able to funnel the benefit of that back into our country back into allowing New Zealand families to purchase a home and to increase the supply for New Zealand families. So again it is reasonable. There are things built into this legislation to still allow overseas buying to happen under certain conditions. So this is one good tool that we have to use. What is this really about though? This is really about trying to transform the environment that has resulted in the dire ugly brutal outfall that we are seeing today where New Zealanders are living in garages in cars under bridges and on the streets or are just panicking in their rental property because there is no security in respect of whether they will be able to stay there because it is too favourable—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order!MARAMA DAVIDSON: Have I gone over?The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): You have gone over.