SpeechJOANNE HAYES (National): I stand to take a call on this bill and first of all I just want to bring to the attention of the previous speaker Kelvin Davis—Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! Sorry to interrupt. I should have said: the question is that the motion be agreed to.JOANNE HAYES: OK first of all I just want to talk about the so-called Labour KiwiBuild plan. I am sure that the previous speaker omitted in his speech to mention an interview with his leader by a guy on The AM Show—who is that? Mr Duncan Garner. He asked Mr Little whether or not the Labour Party's KiwiBuild policy—building 10000 houses per year as the target—would actually occur. What did Mr Little say? He said no. He said they would never achieve 30000 homes in the first 3 years. He said: Maybe 20000 homes." He also said that in order to do that they would have to bring in foreign workers—foreign workers—to do this. Considering that Labour is a party that goes around and looks at Chinese names of people who are buying homes in Auckland it is a little bit rich—when the Labour member gets up and has a crack at this Government about our comprehensive housing plan that has got results on the ground is it not?It is whacking 10000 houses per year around the ears—that is what our comprehensive housing plan is doing. So when we start looking at the great things to do with our comprehensive housing plan 5 years ago in this country we were building 13000 homes a year nationally. We are now building 30000 homes a year nationally. That is more than what Labour is promising within its KiwiBuild programme. In Auckland alone we have gone from 4000 a year to 10000 homes. That is whacking—this is what I am saying about Labour's KiwiBuild programme. National's comprehensive housing plan is actually whacking your one around the ears left right and centre and a poke in the front Mr Deputy Speaker.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: I don't have one.JOANNE HAYES: We are actually training people in New Zealand in the construction workforce. Our construction workforce is numbering over 40000 people in training and the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation is actually bursting at the seams in making sure that it has got all of these apprentices working within the building and construction sector.We just need to look at the rebuild of Christchurch. Let us have a look at that. Let us have a look at how difficult it was to start with to get the rebuilds and the new builds done there. We had to find building people. We had to find carpenters and builders. We had to find construction companies to come in and do that rebuild. What did we find? Yes we needed to build the workforce. We did not target overseas workers. We came within New Zealand itself—those who live in New Zealand.Sue Moroney: What? Which Christchurch are you talking about?JOANNE HAYES: Yes we had a few but we did not rely on them solely Ms Moroney. We have not relied on them solely.Sue Moroney: You're completely out of touch.JOANNE HAYES: So therefore we are building our workforce within our country itself Ms Moroney. We need to start to listen about what is actually happening under our comprehensive housing plan Ms Moroney.Sue Moroney: Have you ever been to Christchurch?JOANNE HAYES: We are looking at the Resource Management Act (RMA) reforms Ms Moroney. Let us have a look at the RMA reforms that we have been slogging away at in the Local Government and Environment Committee because these reforms are going to improve and fast-forward the building consents in New Zealand. I know that there is lots of yelling from across the way but if you just hush up a bit you will be able to learn quite a bit about our comprehensive housing plan.Let us start talking about our KiwiSaver HomeStart. There are 20000 people who have received HomeStart grants. That is more than $89 million that has been paid out in subsidies to first-home buyers to couples who actually qualify for this grant. When we start to look at the KiwiSaver funds for those buying their first home we are looking at 31400 in the year to March 2016. That is $486 million of savings put towards homes people's first homes.I tell you this comprehensive housing plan that we have on this side is working for the people of New Zealand. We are getting people into their first homes. That is what it is all about—that is what it is all about. Our residential building activity has increased 19 percent nationally and 27 percent particularly in Auckland to 2016. This is an amazing comprehensive plan. You must admit that must you not because so many people are benefiting from it.Not only is Housing New Zealand Corporation involved in this but there is also the local government as well. This bill states that the corporation will monitor and implement the plan that is developed. Of course we are working in partnership with them with local government to make sure that affordable housing is going ahead in this country. There are 213 special housing areas that have been opened up under this Government—213. How many special housing projects were opened up when Labour was in Government? Oh that is right Labour did not have any because it did not see it as an urgency and we did and we have taken the bull by the horns.We back up everything in this comprehensive housing plan. We have the numbers we have the people we have everything that you do not have in your KiwiBuild. You do not have it and you never will have it because your plan has got too many flaws in it. There are too many flaws. First of all—[Interruption] Asian—Kris Faafoi: I'm enjoying it—keep going. Keep talking. I'm enjoying it.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! We only need the odd indication that you are having a good time Mr Faafoi. We do not need it repeated 15 times or we will wonder just what you are up to.JOANNE HAYES: Thank you Mr Deputy Speaker. Let us move on to insulation. Let us move on to Warm Up New Zealand. That has been a National Government policy. Let us warm up New Zealand. We are actually making sure that social houses receive subsidies to insulate the houses and we are looking at that also with landlords as well. These are the things we have promised over the 9 years that we have been in Government and we will continue to keep this plan going.All in all when I start to look at all the great things that have happened in our comprehensive plan I doubt that it would ever happen under a Labour housing plan because it does not have a housing plan. There is nothing is there? There is nothing absolutely nothing. When you have got a housing person who really does not like people with Asian-sounding names then you are pretty much done for are you not? You are pretty much done for.In closing my speech I will never support this bill. I will not support it going to the Social Services Committee. It is a waste of time. It is a waste of parliamentary time to try to even put a bill forward that is actually going to hamper the fast growth of housing in this country. To be quite honest it would be shameful should it go ahead because it is just wasting Parliament's time. It will slow down everything that we have currently done. We are speeding up we are going forward because that is what this side of the House does. We are a party of action. We plan. We do our action and we do it for the benefit of everybody in New Zealand—even for you guys over there and all your whānau. All right? So without any hesitation I do not support this bill. I will never support this bill. Kia ora."