Davidson Marama; Borrows ChesterMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): Gosh it has been a long couple of days and we are coming now to the third reading of this tragic bill. It is a long tragic story actually the whole thing. It has been quite historic this debate. So I do actually quickly want to acknowledge the Clerk's Office and the staff and all of their incredible work that they have done to allow us to debate in this democratic system. To allow us to debate they have had to—you know we have been throwing bills and amendments up there and they have had to do all of the things so that we can smoothly debate such an incredibly important issue for our country. So from all of us I would like to thank the Clerk and the Clerk's staff. Thank you all very much. This has been a bit of a historic debate. The Minister put up a bill to rush through urgency and it totally got away from him. It totally got away from the Government—a little bit like the housing crisis. They lost control—they got no handle on it. Ae right? Ōrite tonu ngā raruraru. [The problems are really very similar.] They just lost it. It just got away from them. They thought: Oh let's do this. Oh whoops! It got away." So it has been important. It has been important though because New Zealanders have been watching I tell you. Oh boy they have been watching the Opposition. So let us start with a vision. How about this for our country? How about this: that nobody here has to go to sleep at night in their bed and worry about money. Do you know where that came from? It was John Key in 2008. That is where that came from in his definition of "What do you define as rich?" in a debate between him and the Rt Hon Helen Clark. He gave a fantastic definition. Everyone acknowledged it was the best. Do you know what was fantastic about it? He did not put up statistics and numbers like the Government is doing right now. He put up something real. He put up something real that New Zealanders understand. [Interruption] Shh! I am not talking to you; I am talking about you. He put up something real. He did not put up a graph he did not put up numbers he did not talk about housing consents or interest rates; he put up something human.OK so let us expand on the honourable Prime Minister's own vision. How about one that I heard in Kaitāia last week like: "This will be the last generation to experience any insecure unsafe accommodation." How about that? You know when I said that the wealth of this country is our people I really meant it because they said this. They asked for this. They really are our thinkers. They have the solutions and the ideas. They have the vision they have the plan and they have the smarts. It is our job to listen and to make that happen. They are our wealth. I am talking to them. I have been talking to them this whole past couple of days.This bill alongside all of the other ad hoc pieces of legislation that the Government has been embarrassed into will not protect our future generations. And our Government knows this so it cannot then commit to it. It cannot say it. It cannot even concede and say that there is a housing crisis. It cannot say it will end homelessness because it knows that nothing it comes up with is about that. Do we hear this? New Zealand do we hear this? Nothing that those members will come up with is about ending homelessness.That is really all our New Zealanders need to know and our Opposition has spent the past couple of days outlining the things that will end homelessness—a whole list of things. Oh they have been put out: ban non-resident buyers so we prioritise all our New Zealand residents to buy; ban tax speculators so that our first-home buyers can have a fair go; build thousands more State homes; build thousands more affordable—truly affordable—homes and more safe and warm homes; improve the urban design rules; and mostly mostly mostly have an actual plan. Commit to actually seeing the end of homelessness. So we threw all of this up—oh boy did we throw it up. We fought hard for all of it. We fought hard for all of it and I am proud of what we did. Thank you.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER (Hon Chester Borrows): A 5-minute call on behalf of the ACT Party—David Seymour."