SpeechJONO NAYLOR (National): Firstly tonight can I just start with where I agree with Kelvin Davis. The first obviously is that Te Tai Tokerau is a pretty awesome part of New Zealand and I am certainly happy to agree with him on that. I am also happy to agree with him that it is important for parts of New Zealand to have more houses built. I do not think there is any denying that. We would all agree that there are parts of New Zealand that do need more houses to be built. We are seeing house prices going up in particular areas in New Zealand at quite a large rate in large part due to a lack of supply of housing and the inability to get those houses built. We have seen a couple of circumstances where this has occurred in New Zealand in past years; the first one was in Christchurch. If we look at the reason for that in Christchurch obviously there were a couple of very devastating earthquakes which meant that there was an absolute housing shortage at the time. So the Government responded in an appropriate way to actually work through ensuring that we could speed up some processes to get houses built quickly and ensure that land was freed up. We have seen bills come through this House to do with the Riccarton Racecourse and others to free up land so it would be available for the private sector to be able to meet the growing demand for housing in Christchurch. What has happened as a result of that is that now we have seen a stabilisation of housing prices in Christchurch—because the Government responded in a way to allow the private sector to address some of those issues.In Auckland we have had similar issues with a constriction of the amount of land available. It is not rocket science to know that when you have planning processes that put an urban limit around an area so you cannot spread out further but you cannot actually then subdivide smaller and increase the density of housing there is only one way that prices will go—because you have choked supply. Demand continues to increase and of course the prices go up. This Government has responded to that. The Auckland Council—and credit to the Auckland Council—has responded to that. It has made appropriate changes to its unitary plan which is now allowing for a widening of that urban limit and also for greater intensification of housing and that is freeing up some land. We have obviously been putting through special housing areas over 200 of those and we have seen that an estimated 70000 new homes are to be built in those areas. We are on track. We have got some things in train and we are addressing the issues that will allow us to be able to increase the supply and therefore address some of the housing issues in a place like Auckland.This evening earlier we had another member's bill before us. It was the Crimes (Increased Penalty for Providing Explosive to Commit Crime) Amendment Bill. On the other side of the House I heard a number of speakers decrying the length of the bill. They said: Oh this is a short little bill. It can't mean much. If it is just a short little bill it really isn't going to achieve much at all." This is how big this one is. It is about the same size. What it smacks of when you have a bill like this is it simply works off this principle: if we say it it will be so. If we say it often enough that we will build 100000 houses then magically 100000 houses will appear. That is what this bill does—it says we are going to magically make 10000 houses per year appear in the places where they are needed most. You cannot magically make houses happen. Actually I have heard criticism that things are not moving fast enough that you cannot live in consents and all these little pat lines that come out from across the House. Guess what? Even if the Government was to build those houses the Government would still be subject to the Resource Management Act. The Government would still be subject to the planning processes and everything that it takes to get houses done.This Government is not sitting idly by. This Government is not just leaving it entirely up to the market. We have seen the KiwiSaver HomeStart package which has seen greater numbers of young people able to access it so they can buy their new home. We have put up $1 billion worth of infrastructure funding to ensure that those growth areas will get the infrastructure that they need. It is not simply just a case of saying: "If we say it will be built it will be built." No; what needs to happen is the appropriate measures need to be put into place to ensure the market is able to respond. That is what this Government is doing that is why we are seeing so many more houses built and that is why we do not need this bill. Thank you."