Bennett GlenGLEN BENNETT (Labour—New Plymouth): Kia ora Mr Speaker. As a member of the Labour Party and the Labour Government I'm always proud to stand in this House and to talk and be open and honest and lean into the challenges that we do face. Because we face challenges as a nation we face challenges as a global community and we know that there are things that we need to address and we must address. I'm glad to be part of a party and a Government that's willing to lean in—not lean out but lean in—and address those hard issues. Someone once said that being negative only makes the journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus but you don't have to sit on the cactus. I think I'll leave that where it is for now and maybe allude to it a bit later on.But what we constantly seem to be hearing in this House what we constantly seem to be hearing as I listen to politicians is going on and on being negative. Christopher Luxon and the National Party—so often they have things to say. When I'm in New Plymouth and in my electorate there are challenges that we face and we talk about so often but it's around how do we find solutions. Because I don't see the vision. I don't see the plan for our future. I'm grateful to be part of a Government that sees a plan and has a plan. When we come to housing—and we've had conversations about that this afternoon in this debate—I don't want to be putting the fear into our renters. I don't want to be as winter approaches making renters feel that they may have to move on or that we can just throw them out at our will. I want to ensure that we have good tenancy policies we have good warm dry homes because everybody—everybody—deserves a place to call home.I was doing the numbers recently looking at our social housing build in New Plymouth and in Taranaki. Can I just say that between 2010 and 2017 before this Government came into being two—two—houses were built through Housing New Zealand or Kāinga Ora in New Plymouth. Only two. Between 2018 and 2022 that number went up to 15. I'm really grateful that our Minister of Housing has had conversations with myself with members of our community and I'm really excited. There are already 45 units being built in New Plymouth as we speak. We've got another 100 on the go that are planned for being consented as we speak so by the middle of this year we'll potentially have more than 140 houses being built in New Plymouth—140; remember two between 2010 and 2017—because everybody deserves a place to call home.I just want to allude and come to—because Port Taranaki was I believe the last port to export live animals and before I was elected this was something that I was challenged on by members of our community. How could we as a community that is so much a rural community who supports our farmers be actually doing this to our animals? I was really surprised to watch Newshub several weeks ago and the spokesperson for animal welfare Nicola Grigg announced that she was going to bring live animal exports back and made this amazing statement that it's just like: It'll be a farm on water. That's fine. It'll be lovely—a farm on water." I believe that we need to ensure the best practice we have for our animal welfare. For us here in the Labour Party and for us as a Government we're doing our best to ensure that we protect not only our animals and the care of our animals but also our reputation around the world because we need to make sure that we pivot and ensure that we have ourselves in a position that is competitive as we come into the 2030s into the 2040s and into the 2050s. People are demanding—people are demanding—that when it comes to the way crops are grown when it comes to the way that animals are bred and cared for that the standards have changed. The standards have changed. I want to make sure that we protect our animal welfare we protect our reputation around the world that we are the breadbasket of the world that conserves but also has high-value quality food that is sold to the world that not only supports those around the world but supports us as a nation.I am glad to be part of a Government that has a vision that is looking forward. I know as I said at the start we have a lot of work to do and there are challenges that face us every single day but I am so grateful and so excited to be serving in a Government that is making sure that we are ready for the challenges that face us and we are finding solutions. Being negative only makes the journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus but you don't have to sit on it."