Halbert ShananSHANAN HALBERT (Labour—Northcote): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's great to be back in the House this week amongst my positive and proactive Labour party colleagues in Government getting the job done. I certainly appreciated time back in Northcote seeing firsthand the difference that this Government is making to our North Shore community and how we are delivering in our economic recovery.The top of the list of course in Birkenhead is our COVID vaccine roll-out and across the road from my electorate office is the Birkenhead Vaccination Centre. Every day it's full of local people getting their vaccines and I want to thank the hard-working staff that are there doing an amazing job providing an A-class service to our community.A highlight for me last week is that I got to host our Labour infrastructure caucus committee at Kāinga Ora's Northcote housing development. This is a transformational project for our community that started under the Clark Government took far too long under the National Government—it stalled actually—but I especially enjoyed meeting all of our apprentices that are working on building houses in Northcote training up the next generation. It's a really important legacy of this project and it's delivering for our North Shore community.Now the things that we've done—and this is a real list of achievements in the work that we've been doing and the fabulous outcomes of having a Labour Government and a Northcote MP as a part of Government. We're delivering on 1550 new warm dry homes replacing 350 tired old State houses that National didn't. A third are Kāinga Ora homes for social rent another third for affordable KiwiBuild houses for first-home buyers and another third that are on the open market—233 homes have been completed under this Government and construction commences for a further 300 this year. One hundred and seventy-four homes have been planned for the Birkdale - Beach Haven end of my electorate on the other side. Last month I got to open 54 of 94 that we've opened since this Labour Party has been in Government. In addition to that 736 homes have been consented in the last year in our Kaipātiki area—736.But alongside homes we have to build communities and have infrastructure in place that supports these things to get done. So in addition to that on Monday I had the privilege of attending the blessing of the newly built $19.5 million Onepoto Primary School in the heart of the Northcote Development. There's three pocket parks alongside Onepoto as well and the Awataha Greenway Project that brings a sense of environment back into our community. We've invested $58 million in the rebuild of Northcote College and alongside that invested millions in other local schools including Northcote Intermediate School Beach Haven Primary School Birkenhead Primary School and we're not finished yet. That's only eight months into my term as the local MP.We've invested in our hospital too. On the North Shore: $267 million 120 elective surgery beds that under Minister Little's watch we are getting done. And last weekend alongside Minister Wood we got on our bikes on the North Shore and we opened the Northcote safe cycling route and bridges connecting our community across the motorway.We're getting things done and I'm very very proud of the work and bravery that we are doing. But what we know is that population growth on the North Shore—and the statistic is that we estimate an additional 600000 people by 2050. We need to plan now and invest in infrastructure to get things done. That's why under this Government $31 billion has been invested in the Auckland Transport Alignment Project to get our local people moving. But as we know there is no silver bullet to achieving our transport woes on the North Shore and the gridlock that we experience. We've got to have multiple modes connecting us from Northcote across the North Shore and across the city. We've got to see cycling walking cars too we've got to have rapid transport and also walking and cycling across the harbour. It's one of our priorities and in particular the comments of Minister Robertson—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired.