Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): Malo e laumalie 'Eiki Sea. For too long Aotearoa has been putting up with substandard rental properties for our citizens to live in not the least the neglect that the previous National-led Government showed towards tenants in this country. I think we have to be very up front here that this House alone is actually not representative of people who need to rent to be able to live in a home and especially not the previous Government. So we're going to fix that mess up and it is a heck of a mess. It is a heck of a mess that has harmed people's lives and has interrupted people's well-being—not least of all the children of this nation.We heard the Minister previously speak about the swamp house" in Papakura. We know that parents and families send their children to bed wrapped up with beanies and thermals. We know that people are sitting in homes where in the winter when they breathe they can see their own breath because of how cold it is. We know that over 56 percent of rental properties are mouldy or hard to heat. So we're going to fix that mess up. Now a lot of that could have been fixed in the previous nine years of a Government that had power and resources but not the political will and certainly not a connection to people who need to rent a home to live. So we're going to do that. We are doing that and I'm really proud to be working right alongside Minister Phil Twyford and his initiatives to make sure rental homes are more secure that we have families who are actually able to put down roots whether they rent or own and to also make sure our homes are warm and dry. These are two particular points that the Green Party has been strong on for nearly 20 years—for nearly 20 years—not the least going back to the 2004 Parliament where Jeanette Fitzsimons championed home insulation. Also a shout out to my colleague Gareth Hughes who has long been talking about energy efficiency—making sure that we have homes that are reasonable to heat without putting people into further hardship—and of course Metiria Turei's member's bills and campaigns for renters' rights and secure tenancies. So I am incredibly pleased that we are showing that we will actually do something about one of the most pressing issues for our people to the point where we know that the previous Government has to sit there uncomfortably and try and find other things to nit-pick about—and I get that. [Interruption] All our Ministers do need to be up to standard—gosh we would need extended urgent House sittings if we were going to talk about all of their Ministers falling foul of how we should behave in this House. So anyway we're getting on with the work of fixing up our rental issues in this country because more and more people are renting: over half of our country—over a third but over half are Māori over two-thirds are Pacific. Renters are more likely to have children to be women to be disabled to be on lower incomes. And so renting's going to have to be a dignified way of life not a second-class option. Rental laws that the Minister with the support of myself and this Government will be pushing through are going to enable us to have a warmth standard. Hello—something that that Government previously had nine years to do something about we passed a law on within a year of coming into Government. Chris Bishop: We did it. We passed minimum rental standards. We passed minimum insulation standards.MARAMA DAVIDSON: There was no warmth standard. There was no warmth standard. For a long time it has been recommended that we need to have something between 18 and 20 degrees as a minimum standard in these cold New Zealand homes so we're going to do all of that. What we're really doing here is making sure that homes are homes that if you're going to use houses as a business then you better be up to standard in running that well and actually most of our landlords have been doing well. But for those who are exploiting tenants are running a rort and they're causing harm to our families well we are going to fix that up. It makes me incredibly proud to be able to stand here and be a part of that work which is about turning our values to where they need to be. Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker."