O'Connor SimonSIMON O'CONNOR (National—Tāmaki): I'm pleased to take a call. Look I think it's absolutely marvellous that we've got the Hon Phil Twyford back on the housing portfolio here. He's been missed so lovely to have him back. And look marvellous that we've finally got to this bill as well. The amount of filibustering undertaken by the Government itself on its own bill over recent days has been quite quite extraordinary because if you've been listening to the Minister's speech of earnestness—the general public may not have realised that yesterday literally hours were spent by the Government filibustering or slowing down its own bill its own bill. But one thing I will initially agree with is that story at the end and I think it's great actually that the Minister shared that story because Mohi used the term hands"—"many hands were involved". And I will acknowledge the Government's role but I think it's important too to acknowledge if there are many hands involved the National Party which started Housing First. I acknowledge—I think important—the Government has extended that but actually it was the National Party which started the programme and we are incredibly proud of that. So I am—well not delighted; one can't be delighted to oppose but I stand in opposition of this third reading of the "KiwiBuild Bill". Oh so this isn't the "KiwiBuild Bill" this is actually a different—I do apologise. This is a Kāinga Ora bill. I'm sorry that I'm confused because as I was listening to the Minister every word every promise is verbatim of the promises that were put forward by this Government under KiwiBuild. I just took a few notes. The Minister was talking about "every New Zealander is to get a home. It's about respect and dignity. It's a step change. It's about sustainability. It's about vision leadership history. It's about working with the private sector. It's an expression of our commitment." said the Minister. The thing about all of this is these are the exact same words and phrases and empty promises which followed KiwiBuild and why that's important is because everybody in this House and particularly those on the Government side know exactly where those words of "promise" and "partnership" and "history" of "commitment" of "sustainability" "calling time on doing as little as possible"—to end the quote—all of these words all of these phrases and good feelings were put forward for KiwiBuild and we all know where that ended up. It was a complete and utter failure—Hon David Bennett: A shambles.SIMON O'CONNOR: —a complete shambles a reset which turned into a retreat—an appalling retreat an appalling retreat. And so from this side of the House our concern our opposition to this bill is not based on the fluffy words—we all agree on the importance of housing—but we oppose the bill because the same empty-headed rhetoric that brought about KiwiBuild is the same empty-headedness which is behind Kāinga Ora and it will fail in the same way that KiwiBuild failed because words do not build houses. Pulling together Housing New Zealand HLC and the failed KiwiBuild—blending it all together rearranging the deckchairs—doesn't build houses. Unfortunately on this side of the House we see that the words and intentions are well played. They are the very same that led to the failure of KiwiBuild and so we oppose Kāinga Ora."