Nash StuartSTUART NASH (Labour—Napier): The reason why new Part 3 is such an anathema to the Government is that it lists in this first clause everything that the National Government is not doing. But first of all let me just address a couple of things that the Hon Gerry Brownlee said. What Gerry Brownlee did was he highlighted the major difference between the National Government and a Labour Government. Mr Brownlee believes that the market will deliver optimal outcomes always. So you leave it to the market the Government does not have to do anything and away you go—you will get optimal outcomes. A Labour Government believes the Government actually has a role in providing the settings and the regulation and an environment where citizens actually can do well and when markets are not working then the Government must step in. And this is why new Part 3 of the bill actually delivers for Kiwis. It is Labour's attempt—it is Labour's solution; it is its plan—to say: Do you know what? At this point in time the market isn't working. The Government has a very important role to play and this is a plan." Let me go through new section 50T(1) in new clause 12 and highlight the words that actually make this work. The first one is "must"—"The Minister of Housing must". It is not "may". It does not denote any sort of voluntary subjective actions; it says that the housing Minister "must" do something. Let us use this in an ordinary context. "He must turn up or else he will be in serious trouble."—it is "must". Throughout this bill that we are debating at the moment there are a whole lot of "mays" and this sort of stuff which means that the Minister might do something if he feels like it. The second word is "prepare". What "prepare" actually means is you have got to do some serious work—not ad hoc not get a bill and rush it through under urgency not sort of hoodwink the people but you have got to do some serious work. So the housing Minister "must prepare". The next words are "a plan". "A plan" means you have actually got to have something that you can deliver. Again it is about work but it is also about putting a vision out there—something that you can take to the public that they can take hold of and believe in. So what we have got so far is that the housing Minister must prepare a plan. Now here is the big word: "in consultation". What "consultation" actually means is sitting down and understanding the issues from the people who really know what is happening. It means really getting a grip with those who are going to have to deliver them those who will end up benefiting from them and those who have got to end up making the laws. Rushing legislation through Parliament under urgency is not about consultation. Doing what Nick Smith is doing at the moment without consultation is not good law and that is why yet again we are back here. You know I have been back for what 18 months and it seems that the majority of the bills that I have been speaking on are remedial bills that are amendments to sort out a bill that was passed 1 2 or maybe 3 years ago. It is just really sloppy because I do not think that the level of consultation has been strong enough or robust enough to actually come up with good law in the first instance. The fifth word that I want to highlight is actually "delivery". "Delivery" actually means achieving results—not talking about it not saying "We will do this." but actually achieving it. Let us put this in ordinary usage—for example: "He delivered on his promises." That means that what he did is he came through with what he said that he would do. The sixth term is "10000"—"10000" sounds pretty simple. It is 100 times 100 or 10 times 1000. It is not 1300 into 70000. It is actually a defined target that we will meet. It sends it out there and it is a promise that we will deliver on—10000. People understand it and it will make a difference. The seventh word I want to talk about is "affordable". The definition of "affordable" has been talked about for the last 24 hours in this Chamber but "affordable" is not over $500000. "Affordable" means that people have a realistic chance of actually getting into the market. They know that they can have an aspiration they can have a dream and they can have something to look forward to because they know it is achievable. "Affordable" means that New Zealanders can have a chance. And the final one is "first home buyers." I am not talking about speculators; I am not talking about overseas investors. So when you add this up it says: "The Minister of Housing must prepare a plan in consultation … for the delivery of 10000 affordable houses per year for first home buyers.""