Horan Brendan: Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHoran Brendan: Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 16 May 2013. Volume:690;Page:10082. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]BRENDAN HORAN (Independent): I rise to oppose the Minister of Housing’s motion in respect of the referral of the Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Bill to the Social Services Committee. Once again this Government is trying to bypass the democratic process. During the democratic process we hear from submitters and a bill is stretched in every direction. That is how democracy works. At the end of the process hopefully we get a bill that works. Today just over there the Prime Minister stood up and said that within 3 years there would be 39000 houses built. Did anybody do the mathematics there?Mike Sabin: Consented.BRENDAN HORAN: That is what he should have said. He should have said that 39000 would be consented. But that is going to be very difficult too. Who is going to process the applications? Is the council supposed to pay for people to be employed to process those applications? There are many applications. There are many resources. We have got resource consents. We have got building consents. Who is going to build these buildings? Where are the developers? Where have they gone? Well many of them are bankrupt from the recession.Hon Maurice Williamson: That sounds like a song. “Where have all the developers gone?”.BRENDAN HORAN: That is a song. “Where have all the developers gone?”. Who is going to build all these ghost houses? We expect that with the proper—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): Order! Can I just remind the member that this is actually a debate on an instruction to a committee.BRENDAN HORAN: Yes Mr Speaker. So we expect to see developers submitting. We expect to see plumbers submitting. Who is going to build these houses? Where are all the plumbers? Where are all the tradespeople? Did you do the maths? It will be $20 billion worth of building projects in 3 years.Tim Macindoe: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. My point of order is twofold. The first is that the member should realise that he needs to sit down when you are on your feet ruling on a point of order but more important I draw his attention again to the point that you are making to him—that we are debating the question specifically about a truncated select committee process. Nothing that that member has said so far has been relevant and I ask you to ensure that he sticks to the question.BRENDAN HORAN: It is quite relevant to the bill when I am speaking about submitters and the select committee process.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): Can I just remind the member that there is an instruction before the House about this bill going to a select committee and about the committee reporting by an earlier date. Also the instruction gives certain powers for the committee to meet. That is what he needs to bring his debate around—that the committee reports by an early date and that certain powers are given to the committee.BRENDAN HORAN: Thank you Mr Speaker. I will get back to what I was saying. We need the correct amount of time for the select committee process and for the submitters. I cannot see how it is going to work and on this side of the House we believe in doing something well and doing it once. [Interruption] Let us have a look at Simon Bridges’ bill that was rushed through under urgency. That is going to come up again very very shortly to fix up the mess. Aucklanders cannot afford to have this Government make a complete mess of Auckland. So please let us have the proper select committee process. Let us follow the rules of democracy that New Zealand has always been proud of. Thank you.