Coffey TamatiTAMATI COFFEY (Labour—Waiariki): I'm very grateful for our Deputy Prime Minister the Rt Hon Winston Peters who has got such a lengthy knowledge of what's going on in New Zealand politics that he's able to drop in little facts such as who closed Clutha hospital. Who closed Clutha hospital? Now I don't know but I've been told on very good information by our Deputy Prime Minister that actually it was the Nats—it was the National Party that closed Clutha hospital. So the faux outrage that came from that last speaker Jacqui Dean is completely unwarranted. The member is suffering from a bit of political amnesia when it comes to that. It would do her well to have a conversation with the Deputy Prime Minister just to get some of those facts on the table some of those facty" things that so often get in the way of a really good speech.But over on this side we've got our chin up. We're positive about everything that the Budget has gone and delivered. I came into Parliament saying that we were going to be doing some stuff in the housing area—not just one part of the housing area though; the whole spectrum. Remember the Rotorua area was actually pinned with the tag of having the second-worst homeless rate in New Zealand and so I came into Parliament saying that we're going to fix that. So we've got Housing First—that's been extended to Rotorua so we're proud of that. It's one of the first iwi partnership Housing First projects in the whole of the country. So thank you to Lifewise who were at the forefront of that and LinkPeople and Te Taumata o Ngati Whakaue who have partnered up to try and solve our homeless crisis in Rotorua.Let's talk about social housing because over 2500 houses are going to be built under this Government when it comes to social housing all across New Zealand. It was just the other day that I was in Whakatāne talking to some of the officials that are at the front line doing the tenancy managing stuff and seeing some State houses appear in their fair town and they're saying "We haven't seen this in such a long time. We are crying out. We've been desperate for some action on this front. We know that we've had people that have been needing houses but they haven't had them. So thank you so much to this Government for delivering social houses for our people." I want to take this opportunity to also thank all of those tenancy managers and those workers that are out on the front line all around the country on behalf of Housing New Zealand. They need to be well looked after because they're actually the ones that are going into the homes of these people that need so much help and so much support.You see because the last Government thought it would be a really good idea to swab the walls and kick them out—and so that's what they did. Actually all across the country they were kicking people out because of some dodgy P formula. Under our Government we've had to swing in and clean up that mess.So I'm proud of the work that we're doing in social housing. I'm proud of the work that we're doing with our homeless people as well. Also let me drop this in here too because I've only got a short amount of time: but actually on 1 July our renters are going to be warmer over this winter not just because of the winter energy payment that came in under this Government just last year but all renters across New Zealand are going to have a much warmer winter because it's this Government that has stumped up with the policy saying that all rentals need to make sure that they have got ceiling and underfloor heating. We've had a long run in under this and it comes into force on 1 July. So I'm looking forward to that because we know that when people have bad insulation when they have bad housing situations—damp cold houses—that's where the health problems kick in. So we've got respiratory diseases that we haven't seen in a long time. We're taking steps to make sure that the whole area along the housing spectrum is going to be taken care of because that's what we've done for a long time.Remember it was a Labour Government that first came up with State houses—saw a housing crisis and decided that we weren't going to step back from the problem that we were going to swing in and make sure that we did something. Some of those State houses are still standing and we've got a bit of work to do to fix those up too. But actually we've been sorting housing out for a long time. New Zealanders trust us to be able to look after the housing fortunes.I want to mihi to our Minister of Housing and Urban Development Phil Twyford. He is swinging in there and helping to solve a problem that the last Government couldn't. They sat on their hands for nine years they passed the buck they shuffled the chairs they had Ministers moving in between the housing portfolio—but they did nothing. So that's why he's got such a monumental problem on his hands but actually he's swinging in there and he's trying his hardest to make sure that New Zealanders have got absolute access to their own houses. I'm proud to be part of a Government that's taking housing seriously. I know it our Government knows it and also New Zealanders know it as well. Thank you Mr Speaker."