Davidson MaramaHon MARAMA DAVIDSON (Associate Minister of Housing (Homelessness)): Thank you Madam Chair. It's an absolute privilege to get up in the Chamber tonight and speak of something which is core to every person in Aotearoa. I stand from the perspective of housing being a basic human right and a core public good. I acknowledge my colleague the Hon Poto Williams in terms of her ministerial delegation in the public housing area.I have a series of some questions for our Minister to actually help people understand where the work programmes are where the focus has to be and I wanted to put some context behind some of those questions starting from the basic premise of what housing actually is for and also acknowledging—and I acknowledge my colleague—Maureen Pugh: Point of order.CHAIRPERSON (Hon Jacqui Dean): Point of order. Sorry apologies to the Minister. Point of order Maureen Pugh.Maureen Pugh: Madam Speaker I just need to clarify whether the member is able to speak from the Government benches?CHAIRPERSON (Hon Jacqui Dean): Yes. Thank you very much for that point of order. It is something I'm considering right now. So for the time being I will ask the Hon Marama Davidson to continue with her contribution and I will come back to the committee with the ruling very soon.Hon MARAMA DAVIDSON: Thank you Madam Chair. It's a relevant point actually and it's one that I was going to touch on in my context of asking Minister Woods how the ministerial team works together in terms of the different roles and the overview that we each bring. As part of a ministerial housing team it is why I wanted to support my colleagues to be able to speak to the ministerial team work that is happening in terms of housing.I did want to acknowledge our parliamentary colleague Debbie Ngarewa-Packer in raising the issue of a focus on Māori housing. My colleague Peeni Henare raised the work of Te Maihi o te Whare Māori – Māori and Iwi Housing Innovation (MAIHI)—the Māori housing strategy—and also the whare wānanga that we have been having a series of. Through the whare wānanga it is there that our Māori community providers our iwi hapū and whānau organisations in Māori communities came to the fore and they were very very clear about the impacts of colonisation the impacts of colonisation on the state of Māori housing today and how that has filtered through generations of inequity and inequality. I wondered if the Minister wanted to take the opportunity to expand a little bit more.One of my delegations is to overview the roll-out of the homelessness action plans that are contained in the first ever comprehensive homelessness action plan that our country has had. And that too picks up on the inequities and the context behind the disproportionate impact on Māori and Māori facing housing challenges today.I did want to allow the Minister to dive a little bit more into that particular context that we acknowledge through the set-up perhaps of the whare wānanga and that opportunity of bringing community Māori leadership into a partnership. They challenge us and I thought that that was an opportunity for the Minister to be able to touch on that as well.For the year in review for the annual year in review that we are talking about right now there have been incredible impacts that have worsened the housing crisis such as COVID ongoing housing unaffordability lack of supply and individual stressors. We need to increase prevention and support services. I wondered if I could give the Minister an opportunity in the year in review to speak further about some of those impacts that bring to the fore even bigger challenges than I think we have ever faced as a country when it comes to housing particularly over the past year. I wondered if the Minister wanted to take an opportunity to dive into some of those impacts and how we as a ministerial team then are responding to the specific challenges and impacts that we have faced and what our priorities therefore are and our work streams and our Budget proposals.And I also wanted to—wow where do all those seconds go? I also wanted to pick up on whether the Minister wanted to take the opportunity—there are some particular actions in the homelessness action plan and I'm really proud that they have been picked up including that I in the prevention of homelessness have a particular focus on housing first sustaining tenancies expanding housing support for people and young people in care leaving Oranga Tamariki. But I wonder whether the Minister specifically wanted to mention supporting returned overseas offenders who are homeless and supporting women leaving prisons as a few of the priority actions in the homelessness action plan—whether there was an opportunity to speak more on why those are important and why they have been picked up.So and I think just lastly I wanted to—and I think this is supporting my colleague Minister Peeni Henare in MAIHI the Māori housing space. That MAIHI plan—and this relates to my particular responsibility in rolling out transitional housing—picks up on kaupapa Māori principles. The Māori housing community and providers are keeping us to account as we continue to aspire to achieve those principles. They include the principles of understanding the mauri of not just people who are without a home but the mauri of what whenua and being housed actually creates for whānau. They underpin the principles of kaupapa Māori in the MAIHI housing plan and include a principle of whakamana that being that every person's dignity in wrapping around social supports making sure that people are receiving the care that they need is at the absolute centremost of how we approach working with whānau.I think one of the other principles that I really wanted to pick up on is the principle of whanaungatanga and the importance of whakapapa. Minister Woods whether or not you have heard not just from Māori communities but as I have been engaging with community housing providers and I am hearing—CHAIRPERSON (Hon Jacqui Dean): The member's time has expired. I did allow the member to perhaps go over time because there was a timing bell issue.Thank you for the point of order that was raised a little earlier. I'm referring to Speaker's ruling 16/6. There isn't a clear ruling on the specific incidents but generally in terms of a member changing seats to make a contribution it is generally regarded to lead to disorder because a member can tend to move to their advantage. In this case however my ruling is that the member in question relying on Speaker's ruling 16/6 as I have but more specifically the Minister is appearing in a financial review as part of a Minister's team and therefore I judge that to be in order.