Turei MetiriaMETIRIA TUREI (Co-Leader—Green): I really welcome this opportunity to continue the debate on housing in New Zealand and to talk with other members across the Chamber about the wide range of solutions that we have to resolve the housing crisis. I must thank Nick Smith and Gerry Brownlee for giving us this opportunity to do so—for the entire rest of the day as I understand it. Well done them. Let us give them a clap. Good work National. We really did need to have this housing debate and we appreciate the opportunity. The Green Party will be supporting new Part 3 which has been proposed by Phil Twyford and we also welcome the opportunity to speak about the issues raised in that part. It not only provides a target which is critical for the number of homes that need to be built and for which Government will then be responsible for delivering in some form—there are many different ways for Government to deliver that housing most of which involve relationships with the private sector with the community sector and with iwi Māori in delivering those homes. That is a very healthy approach to housing provision in New Zealand an approach where the Government takes fundamental responsibility for making sure that citizens—every citizen every resident of this country—have access to warm dry safe and affordable homes and then works with the entire New Zealand community to deliver those homes to a target. So we are very pleased to see the 10000 homes target in this part and we look forward to supporting it. Not only do we need a target but we do need to make sure that those homes meet a range of criteria to make sure that they work for the communities and the people who are going to be living in them and that they are affordable. And by affordable of course—there is a range of views about what affordable means. But at least if we say in the legislation that those homes must be affordable we leave ourselves open to the opportunity to work through what that looks like and what that might mean—I have a view—and then to make sure that those homes are built to that target too. I think that is a very wise provision. The requirement in this part for the homes to be warm and dry and meet safety standards is I think absolutely critical. I would refer the Committee to a current campaign that is being run by SafeKids Aotearoa. That is a child health - focused public organisation and it does policy work and community engagement on accidental child injuries. It has some terrible numbers about the kinds of injuries that children suffer every day as a result of living in homes that are not safe for them to be living in. So it is now engaged in this fantastic campaign around the country to work primarily with those in rental homes—landlords and tenants—to find ways to help support and promote safe housing for children. As we know the majority of New Zealand children live in rental accommodation. Certainly the majority of children who live in poverty live in rental accommodation so it is really important for those children who have other pressures on their health and well-being that at least the home that they live in is warm is dry is properly ventilated and is properly heated but also is safe in other ways. I would invite members and members of the public to look at the SafeKids website and to look at that campaign and understand that the kinds of safety measures that this incredible public health organisation is promoting in order to protect the well-being of children in homes can be provided through the changes that are proposed by Phil Twyford. And why is that? That is because Phil Twyford's amendment proposing new Part 3 of the bill does require that those new homes that are built have safety parameters built into them. It gives the Government the tools it needs to develop those standards in a much more effective way for the health and well-being of our children. There is no doubt that New Zealanders across the country are concerned about the negative health impacts of poor-quality housing on our children. We hear about the 40000 hospitalisations every year of children for preventable illnesses that are caused by not having a warm dry and safe home to live in. We know about the 150 children every week who suffer some kind of—