Henare PeeniPEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau): Tēnā koe Te Māngai o Te Whare tuatahi māku ki roto i ngā tikanga o ngā mātua tupuna ka tangi atu ki te hunga mate. Ko ngā mate ki runga i te pae o mahara ka whakaaro ake ki tērā hau tupuā a Kīngi Ihaka i ngaro atu ki Te Pō ka whakaaro ake mō Te Archbishop arā ko Paraone Tūrei kua ngaro atu kāti! Rātou ki a rātou e moe e moe e moe! [Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. The first thing for me to do according to the customs of the ancestral forefathers is to lament those who have passed away. The deaths on the horizon of remembrance that come to mind are that of the renown and noted Kīngi Ihaka who is lost to the void. I think about the Archbishop namely Paraone Tūrei who has gone; enough! They the dead to themselves rest sleep slumber!]As is customary in the Māori culture I would like to pay respects to those who have passed on in recent months since the last time the House sat. I want to acknowledge them and I now bring the conversation back to the topic at hand. Thank you very much for allowing me this opportunity. There is one word we have not heard from the other side of the House. It is crisis". They seem to tiptoe around the word "crisis" when actually—Hon Members: It's your word.PEENI HENARE: Well the proper word now is actually "crises"—there are so many things going wrong in Aotearoa New Zealand today and I want to touch on a couple of those. One of these crises is as mentioned by members on this side of the House housing—a huge issue in Tāmaki Makaurau and across the country. Another crisis issue is education. Another one is health. But for mine in Tāmaki Makaurau I want to focus on housing.I want to start by saying that recently the Māori Housing Network was established to ensure that homeownership numbers amongst Māori—and opportunities for Māori tribes and other agencies to engage in providing housing for Māori people are more efficient and more effective. My research led me to these numbers and as a fluent native Māori speaker it pains me to say this but I think it is one of the most appropriate sayings for the issue at hand. I know that my esteemed colleague here Mr Kelvin Davis regularly says this: "Too much hui and not enough do-ey." I can tell you from the Māori Housing Network that for every seven public consultation hui they have only one house is built. For every seven hui only one house is built.I can also say to the House that none of those houses have been built in my electorate of Tāmaki Makaurau where homeownership has now plummeted for Māori to 28 percent—half that of the general population. Pacific Island homeownership has plummeted to an all-time low of 18 percent—28 percent and 18 percent—plummeted. I believe this is a crisis. Can I also say that as of November 2016 no houses have been built in Tāmaki Makaurau and even worse no houses have been contracted to be built.So what kind of a future does that leave for the people of Tāmaki Makaurau? Today the Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little pointed out to this House and also to the public the plight of one of our constituents living under a tarpaulin. Is this the future that our people can look forward to? I say to the people of Aotearoa New Zealand and the people of Tāmaki Makaurau that come 23 September they will have a choice. They will have a choice to make and that choice will be to make sure that the future generations of Aotearoa New Zealand have a home that they have all of the opportunities that many members in this House have been able to partake in: homeownership quality education quality healthcare—something so sadly missing from this Government over the past 10 years.Just to remind the House once again before I conclude: for every seven public hui only one house is built—none of those in Tāmaki Makaurau. For me that is a crisis. I spoke of the homeownership rates: 28 percent for Māori and 18 percent for Pacific Island people. I have not seen one vision from this Government that will put more Māori into homeownership that will put more Pacific Island people into homeownership instead of condemning them to private rates of rental properties. Some and most—particularly in Tāmaki Makaurau—cannot afford it. One two-bedroom place in Tāmaki Makaurau is $560 rent per week. How can our people survive in Tāmaki Makaurau? And we know that this crisis this plague is indeed spreading across the country. So come 23 September I encourage all New Zealanders out there to get out and vote and vote for change."