Moroney Sue: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMoroney Sue: General Debate[Sitting date: 11 May 2016. Volume:713;Page:10984. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]SUE MORONEY (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. [In New Zealand Sign Language]Mr SPEAKER: I know it is an official language but the member needs to also speak at the same time.SUE MORONEY: I need to speak at the same time? I have just said “Thank you Mr Speaker.” I am pleased that I am able to use New Zealand Sign Language to take this call. In acknowledging that I would like to acknowledge the Hon Ruth Dyson for her initiative in ensuring that New Zealand Sign Language became an official language of New Zealand.Today the Prime Minister lost the plot. He completely lost the plot—and over what? It is almost unprecedented for a Prime Minister alone to be thrown out of the Chamber but that is what happened. What did he lose the plot over? He lost it because he has been caught out. He has been caught out protecting the mega-wealthy who are using New Zealand as a tax haven. He has been caught out aiding and abetting them. That is why he has lost the plot. New Zealanders are asking themselves: “Who on earth is this Prime Minister running this country for?”. His behaviour over his need to protect the mega-wealthy has become so extreme. He is shrugging his shoulders at the idea that New Zealand is a tax haven whereas most New Zealanders find that idea abhorrent. They are concerned about the reputation of New Zealand on the international scene and so they should be.The Kathmandu Post I am informed ran a headline this week that said “New Zealand prime place for rich to hide money”. The Kathmandu Post ran that headline and New Zealanders living in Nepal are appalled because this is their country being run through the mud because we have a Prime Minister who just shrugs his shoulders—a Prime Minister whose Minister when he was advised of the tax loopholes that were inviting this sort of dirty money to come to New Zealand was then rung up by the lawyer of the Prime Minister and suddenly the review to fix that problem was off. That is undeniable. That is why the Prime Minister has lost the plot. He has been found out to be donkey deep in this dirty little affair for New Zealand. So he has reacted in a way that we are not used to seeing him react actually. But he got thrown out of the House today and that is the reason why.He said some years ago that his vision was that he wanted to see New Zealand become a financial services hub. We all know now that that has just been code for allowing the mega-rich to use New Zealand as a tax haven. That was the code that he used: a financial services hub. It is shocking to note that since 2009 the number of these foreign trusts that are operating in New Zealand has risen from around about 4000 to 11000. So it has mushroomed under John Key’s leadership and it is no wonder.We have got a situation where the Prime Minister will stop at nothing over this issue. He is prepared to take down the reputation of organisations like Greenpeace like Amnesty International and like the Salvation Army in his determination to continue to allow this process to happen in New Zealand. In his determination to protect the wealthy at the expense of the reputation of New Zealand he is even prepared to take down some of our most reputable charitable organisations in trying to defend his position on that. It is indefensible and the Prime Minister should be listening to what most New Zealanders say.On that issue most New Zealanders understand that we do have in many of our cities a housing crisis. Of course we have had one in Auckland; that is plainly obvious. Everyone knows it except for the current Government; it cannot seem to accept that. Because it has failed to fix the housing crisis in Auckland because it will not even acknowledge it now we are finding that that problem is landing in cities like Hamilton.Here is what Nick Smith has to say about the housing crisis that is developing in Hamilton—we have had increases in house prices in the order of 34 percent in the last 12 months in Hamilton. That is what people are facing. Most New Zealanders know that there is something fundamentally wrong with that—well not Nick Smith. He says that first-time owners need to play the long game; that is what he told the Waikato Times. How long do they have to wait to save up a deposit to get into a home Mr Smith? The long game—well the long game that New Zealanders know that they must play now is they must vote for a Labour Government next year. He also said that it is just a natural correction. So that is what the National Party thinks about the housing crisis that is developing in places like Hamilton. It has failed to fix it in Auckland and it is failing to represent most New Zealanders.