Williams ArenaARENA WILLIAMS (Labour—Manurewa): One in seven—one in seven public homes in this country have been built by this Labour Government. It's an incredible record of this Labour Government to have delivered public housing at the rate of no other Government since the early Labour Governments that we are so proud of. To look back and say that this Labour Government has delivered that many public homes is worth celebrating.And how have we done that? We have invested in the infrastructure that it takes to build those homes and stripped back the barriers to building them. Because not only does this Government build homes but we build the infrastructure that is needed for them. We build the roads that are needed for them—as my colleague Anna Lorck pointed to the example in the Hawke's Bay very recently announced. We also build the classrooms we build the hospitals we build those things that people need to live in their communities—Hon Rachel Brooking: The pipes.ARENA WILLIAMS: —and to thrive. But as my colleague Rachel Brooking shouts yes—we build the pipes. We put the groundwork in we are doing the mahi that makes it possible for families to move into these new houses which my colleague Ibrahim Omer pointed to announced very recently in Wellington. We build those pipes; we do the groundwork that puts those houses up faster and more efficiently than ever before.It is a track record that this Labour Government has of delivering those things which New Zealanders need—a roof over their heads shelter to make their lives more enjoyable better to make sure that their families have somewhere warm and dry to live. I'm proud of that record. We're also on track to deliver 18000 new public and transitional housing places by 2024. There is vision for delivering more of the kind of housing that we need to make sure that people are thriving.But not only does it mean those things that we can see and those physical things: the groundwork the pipes the roads the flood protection and the waste water. This Government has also done the work this term to make sure that we are adapting to the different kinds of conditions that we will continue to see. Earlier this year we were all reminded of the devastating effects of climate change we are having right now. Things like flooding affecting Auckland cyclone affecting Hawke's Bay—extreme weather events that are causing more and more damage to people's homes and livelihoods. Building houses is not just about putting those pipes in the ground it's also making sure that people are out of harm's way that they can live in a place which is safe for them to live. We haven't had rules in place before that have meant that the Aucklanders who are affected by the Auckland floods were safe and that their children could go to school in the morning and that is something which this Government needs to advance. It needs to be advanced in a cross-partisan way as well.That brings me to an important piece of work that I'd like to highlight for the House. It's the Māori Affairs Committee briefing on Māori climate adaptation. That committee has done some important work—and I have the report here which was reported back recently to the House—on traversing those issues which are particularly impactful for Māori assets Māori land marae urupā. Those things which are important to not only Māori having houses and a place to call home and a place to call kāinga but also to our identity as Māori. And as we grapple with those extreme weather events and sea level rise it will become increasingly important for Government to face up to the issues which are specific for Māori and make sure that Māori do not bear the brunt of climate change and become particularly badly affected by it.That briefing was an extensive piece of work where the committee came to a host of what are cross-partisan recommendations. All of the committee agreed to the recommendations included in that report and they are vast. They are about the particular planning processes which we should have to make sure that people are safe in the homes that we build. They're about how we should engage with communities not just Māori communities but in a way where everyone can get around the table and make decisions about what communities need to do to make sure that their houses and their infrastructure is safe from climate adaptation and that—where it's necessary—they can move in a way where if they need to be together they can be together. If they need to move to other parts of a city or an urban environment or another part of land that they can have those conversations.Those are really important recommendations and I do want to thank the Ministry for the Environment officials who assisted the committee with its work as well as Te Puni Kōkiri officials and the clerks—Jayden Violet and David—thank you for the work on that. It's all part of this Government's plan to continue to invest in the infrastructure that we need to strip back the barriers to build more houses and to give people the homes they need.