Bishop ChrisCHRIS BISHOP (National): Thank you very much Mr Speaker. Housing under this Government is a social and economic disaster. In no area more than housing has this Government failed to deliver. They are simply incompetent and incapable of fixing issues in New Zealand society. Big talk in Opposition; utter failure to deliver in Government.First we had the KiwiBuild promise: 100000 houses in 10 years. Where are we up to? Fourteen hundred built so far in five years. I've done the numbers. We've just ticked over the fifth-year anniversary of KiwiBuild. We'll complete the 100000 KiwiBuild houses in the year 2308.Hon Judith Collins: Oh fantastic!Harete Hipango: Appalling.CHRIS BISHOP: I'll be long gone. Judith Collins will be long. Harete Hipango will be long gone. Barbara Edmonds will be long gone. Mr Speaker you sir I'm sad to say will be long gone because KiwiBuild is not going to be completed.Members might remember the now Prime Minister in the 2017 election debate waxing lyrically about kids living in cars. She said I refuse to stand by while children sleep in cars." Back then around a hundred New Zealand kids shamefully lived in cars. The number now is nearly five hundred—480. It should be to the enduring shame of this incompetent and useless Government that practises kindness—or at least preaches kindness but can't put it into practice—that tomorrow morning hundreds of New Zealand children and hundreds of New Zealand families will wake up in a car. The Prime Minister has broken her promise.Phil Twyford said five years ago rents will fall under Labour. Phil Twyford said that. I've got the quote. He said that under Labour's policies rents will fall. Yet today we see TradeMe reporting that tenants continue to feel the pinch as median average rents remain at an all-time high. Rents are up—in the last five years—$140 per week on average. In Lower Hutt they're up $225 a week on average in the last five years. Phil Twyford used to say that it's a disgrace that the Government spends $90000 per day on emergency housing. Well guess what! The Government now spends a million dollars a day housing people in motels.Hon Louise Upston: A day?CHRIS BISHOP: A day. We've just ticked over two months ago a billion—not a million; a billion; "B" for Billy with a capital "B"—dollars spent on housing people in motels. Four-thousand households live in motels. Four-thousand kids will wake up tomorrow morning in a motel.The Government said they would fix the State house wait-list. The Prime Minister likes to say wrongly that the Government's built 10000 State houses. I heard Kiri Allan say it on radio this morning—she said "Oh no don't worry we've built 10000 public houses." Wrong wrong and wrong again. Guess how many Kāinga Ora houses Housing New Zealand houses the Government's actually built in net terms in five years.Hon Louise Upston: How many?CHRIS BISHOP: Two thousand six hundred. Pathetic number. They demolished 4600. They ignore that bit. They don't count the net number. They've demolished or sold 4600 and built net 2600. The Government said they'd stop the State house sell-off; they still sell State houses. Another broken promise. So in net terms 2601 new Kāinga Ora houses. So how do you get to the 10000? Well 4000 of the 10000 are not new builds. It's not new housing; it's an existing house that's being leased by a community housing provider that now accesses the income-related rent subsidy. It's called a redirect. Four thousand of the 10000 purported new public houses are just redirects. They're not new houses whatsoever; it's a redirect. It's an existing house. The Government has bought 1400 houses. Again: not a new house.So when the Prime Minister and Kiri Allan and all the other Labour MPs probably most of whom are sitting on the backbench are rampaging around the country saying "Oh don't worry we've built 10000 public houses." you sitting over there need to know: that is wrong. The Government has not built 10000 new public houses; instead every metric is worse. The wait-list is up by 20000. Emergency housing is up by a matter of thousands. And people in the most severe and urgent need of State housing—820 on the wait-list—now wait 421 days for a State house. This is a Government that came to power promising a lot but they refuse to practise what they preach in Opposition. They're incompetent."