Kanongata'a AnahilaANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI (Labour): Kia ora e te Mana Whakawā. It's an honour and a privilege to make a brief contribution to debate on the Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Bill. I'd like to acknowledge the leadership of the Minister for the Environment the Hon David Parker and the leadership of Nicola Willis and I congratulate the member on her new role because it is with that leadership that we arrive here today at the second reading of this bill. I also want to acknowledge the leadership of the Environment Committee chair the Hon Eugenie Sage and her wisdom and her intelligence and her patience to deal with some of the members in our select committee. Of course I want to also acknowledge the leadership of the deputy chair Rachel Brooking in terms of her intelligence and insights that she brings into here.When I joined the select committee there were only two acronyms that I really understood. There was the AUP which was the Auckland Unitary Plan and the RMA the Resource Management Act. I have been schooled and my brain is still exploding. The ISPP or the intensification streamlined planning process requires the intensive planning instrument or the IPI and the NPS-UD or the National Policy Statement on Urban Development and of course all those details we talked about in detail and the submitters submitted on them. One thing that I really like about what the select committee came out with is the new independent hearing panel because the independent hearing panel must—must—have somebody on that panel who has knowledge of mātauranga Māori.So the other word that I learnt the new acronym is the medium-density residential standards. I live in tier 1 Auckland City and I'm honoured and I'm privileged to be living in a place where the Auckland Unitary Plan has designated it from being a single-house zone in Onehunga. It used to be just one house and now it houses 42 apartments: mixed owner-occupied KiwiBuild and renters. So I want to acknowledge that. Before I get to that I want to acknowledge the officials who have helped us and that have stayed up all night working on this but I want to go into the submitters in terms of the young people. The young people submitted and I think if I themed the submissions by young people there were three themes. They said that they support this bipartisan approach and that they have hope—they have hope—to one day own a home in New Zealand and to have solutions for climate change.Particularly I want to acknowledge Xuzong Chen. His submission was about allowing people to live near the places that they work. He also said that students and our younger generations need to have some hope for the future.Oscar Sims lives in tier 1 Auckland like I do. What he said was that in terms of the AUP—in terms of that I spoke about how I'm living in an apartment built from that plan. However there are places in Auckland that are still the status quo. What this bill does will enable those places to remain the status quo because Oscar Sims says that in Auckland where I live too little homes are built in parts of Auckland. That's because the Auckland Unitary Plan is busy building elsewhere like Papakura and like Onehunga but there are places in Auckland Central that are still the status quo. This bill addresses that.Last but not least we had a young submitter. His name is Mitchell Palmer. He's a student at Yale University studying in Singapore. He's living overseas. He said that one day he wishes to be able to buy an affordable home here in his birth country. I commend this bill to the House. Malo.