Woods MeganGENERAL DEBATEHon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Housing): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business. I love me a movie trilogy. The classics are all there: The Godfather parts I II and III; the original Star Wars trilogy—you can't beat it—Back to the Future I II and III a personal favourite. But where the wheels always come off is when they try and squeeze out that fourth part of the franchise and that's what we're seeing from the Opposition benches: Back to the Future Part IV starring the protagonists: gloomy Christopher Luxon and his sidekick negative Nicola Willis. Here they are set—intent—to take us backwards; back to a dystopic future where benefits are cut and frozen; where the winter energy payment is scrapped; where there are cuts to health; where there are cuts to education; where once again social housing is gutted and flogged off; where once again minimum wages are frozen and workers go backwards. This is the plot line of Back to the Future IV. What we have is central characters that constantly talk down New Zealand. They talk down our economy and they talk down the work of hard-working Kiwis in the process.In the opening scene of this fourth part of Back to the Future it starts with gloomy Christopher Luxon jetting off to London and what does he do there? He goes there and he starts attacking New Zealand businesses. He calls them soft says that they're the reason that New Zealand can't get ahead and continues to bag New Zealand. From there this movie the plot line is set: that we have a constant line of negativity a world where 60 percent of their social media posts are all negative. Imagine such a dystopic world if you would.One thing is very clear: the central theme within the plot that we have here is there are no new ideas and their only policy is to undo all the progress that has been made in the previous episodes of this franchise. This is something more of a horror movie so I was considering whether this was more the fourth part of the Blade trilogy given the number of cuts that were going to be there. But it also occurred to me it could be part of the Mission Impossible trilogy the fourth one because in this plot line the central protagonists gloomy Christopher and negative Nicola seek to spend $400 million over and over and over again. They tell us that it can fund every idea that they don't have. This is something akin to the magic porridge pot.Over on this side of the House instead what we have is a Government that is seeking that third series that third trilogy—always the best in a trilogy in my mind—where we have the central character a Chris Hipkins - led Labour-led Government that will continue to make progress in New Zealand continue to invest in New Zealand continue to undo the damage and deliver for New Zealanders. On this side of the House the protagonists know that many New Zealanders are doing it tough but they are doing their best to keep costs down and the Government is on their side. That I think is the episode that New Zealanders will be voting for when it comes to October.I just want to look in a little detail at some of the policy we've had from the National Party in recent times. One was kicking tenants out of their houses as a way to cure homelessness. Their housing spokesperson Chris Bishop told us that he'd been advised from organisations working with the homeless that this was a good idea. There has been intensive research to find out which organisation—he won't tell us. So I'm going to suggest it is the homelessness organisation that is caring for Michael Woodhouse's homeless man from the last election.