10. Question No. 10—Prime MinisterHon MARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green) to the Prime MinisterQuestion No. 10—Prime Minister10. Hon MARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green) to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by his statements and actions?Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON (Prime Minister): Yes and in the context they were given. Hon Marama Davidson: Does he agree with A People's Review of Kāinga Ora—In Defence of Public Housing report released today that The private housing market has failed to provide everyone with a decent stable and affordable home. The state should have a stronger role in the ownership and provision of rental housing." and if so what steps will the Government take to increase the supply of publicly-owned rental housing? Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: Well I do agree: housing has been an abject failure in this country after six years of the previous administration. What we have to do is increase supply of private houses increase the supply of rental properties available and increase the supply of social and State housing available as well. We've got plans to deal with all three. Hon Marama Davidson: Is he aware of the finding of the report that building good quality public housing at scale and pace can save Government spending in the long term through reduced need for landlord subsidies and through savings in health budgets and if so does this suggest that increasing the supply of public housing is consistent with this Government's stated commitment to social investment? Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: As I said earlier we want to increase the supply of houses available in the private market we want to increase the supply of houses available in the rental market and increase the supply of houses available in the social housing part of the market too.Hon Marama Davidson: [Interruption] Is he concerned then at the ability of the private rental—SPEAKER: No no wait on. Please start again.Hon Marama Davidson: Is he concerned then at the ability of the private rental market to provide New Zealanders with affordable housing when almost 350000 people have to access the accommodation supplement because private rents are too high?Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: Again I don't know how to explain this any differently to the member but it's an "and and and": we need to make sure that we have private housing made available to people who want to purchase homes we need to make sure that we increase the rental supply of rental properties for people who need to rent them and we need to increase the supply of social housing stock as well. It's an "and and" so that all three aspects of the housing market are actually accelerated.Hon Marama Davidson: Will he commit to ensuring that any changes to Kāinga Ora following the review are directed at creating a more efficient and effective build programme to deliver public housing at scale rather than any wind down of existing projects? Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: We will await the findings of the review but what we are clear about is that we want better performance from Kāinga Ora. Rt Hon Winston Peters: Has the Prime Minister received any reports about the gulf or gap he's going to have to fill having inherited a 100000-homes promise that ended up with 2000 being built by the administration that the original questioner came from?Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: I think it's quite well established that KiwiBuild was an utter failure. Hon Marama Davidson: Why is he prioritising tax cuts for landlords instead of building more public housing?Rt Hon CHRISTOPHER LUXON: We are committed to making sure that we build more houses in general in this country. That has been an absolute disaster under the previous administration. This Government takes getting houses built seriously. We do that through the private market the rental market and the social housing market."