Adams AmyHon AMY ADAMS (Minister for Social Housing): The audacity of the Labour leader never fails to amaze me how he can stand in this House and talk about leadership and secrecy and immigration and housing standards when his party has been bringing in illegal foreign workers not paying them putting them up in dodgy accommodation and not making sure they are well housed. And to stand here not telling us who is paying for it—he still will not come out and tell us who is paying for it. His whole party has been complicit in bringing in these workers to work unpaid for their campaign; poorly housed probably breaking immigration laws probably breaking labour laws—certainly not giving truth to the sorts of housing standards they stand up here and continue to talk about—and he has the audacity to talk about leadership in this House.He has the audacity to talk about housing supply when not only has Labour opposed the Three Kings Quarry development; it has opposed the Point England redevelopment it opposed the Resource Management Act changes and it opposed special housing areas. When I as the Minister for Social Housing announced 13500 new social houses being built in Auckland—and just yesterday we announced 130 being built in the Hutt Valley with many more to come.How many has Labour committed to building? Zero—zero new houses. But it would far rather pick holes and throw mud and come up with off-the-cuff back-of-the-envelope unfunded uncosted and unidentified promises to build on fantasy sites that it cannot identify—does not know where they are does not own them—and has the audacity to challenge and criticise us for coming up with costed funded designed plans on sites we can identify.This is a Government that is absolutely not only talking about it but doing it. We are not opposing every development that comes before the House. We have a plan to build 34500 new houses in Auckland over the next 10 years. Just to be clear this is the biggest Government building project since the 1950s—the biggest since the 1950s. It is the equivalent of building 3½ houses on every single street in Auckland.The difference is that we can identify where they are going. We have the land we have the funding and actually what is more we put in place the process that set up the Auckland Unitary Plan to even enable that to be possible. What did we get from the Opposition members? Oppose that; oppose it and come up with random totally free-form numbers that relate to absolutely no consistency. They talked in the Hutt about the fact that they were going to build 400 houses on vacant Housing New Zealand sites. Well there are only at most 100 vacant sites where they could build. Where on earth are these houses going how are they paying for them and how are they ever going to deliver them when they oppose every single initiative that this Government has put in place to fund them?The social housing portfolio will focus unashamedly on building the social houses that we need for our tenants. At the same time you have had in this year's Budget from us the first increase in the accommodation supplements since 2003. We are putting $400 million a year into updating those accommodation supplement rates. For many people they will go up by $80 a week and actually that does not even take into account the changes in areas which make many more people eligible for greater accommodation supplement levels.In total now under this Government not only are we growing the social housing stock from around 66000 houses to 72000 houses over the next 3 years not only are we doing that; we have also committed the first ever permanent supply of funding for emergency and transitional housing—2150 dedicated transitional housing places for the first time ever to support vulnerable New Zealanders while we get them into social housing.And it does not stop there because our social investment approach is making sure that we are not just housing them; we are supporting them with the needs that our community has and that our social housing tenants have whether that be in mental health drug and alcohol addiction services budgeting services—whatever the needs are to support them. We are getting the homeless off the streets of Auckland through our Housing First initiative; we have announced another 500 places around the rest of New Zealand. The difference is very clear. It is one of action and credibility versus inaction and incredulous and unbelievable statements from Labour Party members who have committed nothing to social housing and make statements that frankly no one can believe.