Henare Peeni; Woods MeganHon PEENI HENARE (Associate Minister of Housing (Māori Housing)): Tēnā koe Madam Chair and thank you for this opportunity to make a small contribution. I want to address a couple of things that have already been mentioned and also offer a question to allow the Minister in the chair Megan Woods just a bit of time to catch her notes there. The first thing is actually what we need in order to make sure we have strong effective housing opportunities in particular for Māori communities is a strong partnership. I want to just put on the record that under the National-led Government that that didn't happen with respect to Ihumātao and we found ourselves there tidying up a piece of work that they failed to execute properly.But this brings me back to perhaps my question and I want to talk a little bit about the Māori and Iwi Housing Innovation and the way that we're able to have a strategy that delivers on Māori housing aspirations and the need for us to get that right. In the last year there's been a significant amount of money set aside to allow capacity building amongst a number of our partners and we look to iwi and hapū and Māori organisations as partners when we look towards housing. A certain amount of money was put forward to allow capacity to be built amongst our Māori housing partners in this space and I'm excited as part of a team to work with those particular interest groups to make sure we meet housing aspirations. I wonder—and this is my first question to the Minister—in her time at the wānanga that was established under the Waitangi Tribunal recommendations for this Government did she see lots of opportunities there for strong partnership with iwi and with Māori organisations?The second question that I have is one that actually looks towards bringing two portfolios Madam Chair so I'm happy to take your guidance on this. One of the things we want to do to make sure that Māori aspirations are met is to allow environmentally sustainable energy opportunities for Māori housing. In fact there was a particular fund set up recently that saw us go out to our partners—I'll use the word partners" again—to see how we might be able to look towards supporting sustainable energy outcomes as we look towards growing our housing stock with our partners.Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Housing): I'll just answer a couple of those questions really briefly. In answer to the question that was put around how many demolitions will be required through to 2024 in order to achieve the 18800 build the answer is: it depends. It depends on whether or not these are built on land that we already own. One of the things that we are looking to do is move beyond our metropolitan urban centres for the building of State houses that we have great need for across the country. In some cases that will require us to buy either bare land or private land that already has a house on it. In terms of the demolitions of our own houses that is something that is happening. Indeed in the 2019-20 financial year there were 702 demolitions that happened across a range of our large-scale projects where we're doing urban intensification. But in terms of the member's question—how many will be demolished—in many ways it's immaterial because when we talk about 18800 we're talking about a net figure so that is netted out for any demolitions of our own stock that occur.In terms of answering questions from my colleague the Hon Peeni Henare around what I learnt at the wānanga at the end of the year in terms of opportunities around partnership in the area of Māori housing I think they're many and varied. They range from addressing homelessness they extend into community housing providers for public housing to progressive homeownership schemes right through the housing continuum and we are committed to all of them."