Lees-Galloway IainIAIN LEES-GALLOWAY (Labour—Palmerston North): In 4 weeks' time this Parliament will be dissolved we will go back to our electorates and we will go to the people and give them the opportunity to elect a Parliament and a Government that is fit to face the challenges that this country faces at this point in time. We have numerous challenges that we have to face. The people of New Zealand have a very very clear decision to make. Do we carry on with a Government that has just one trick up its sleeve—giving tax cuts to the few at the top—or do we change to a Labour-led Government that will invest in housing that will invest in healthcare that will invest in education that will invest in public transport and that will make working people's lives better? That is the choice we have—the one-trick National Government with tax cuts for the rich or we can sort out the problems that this country has and that have grown in an unrelenting fashion under the National Government.New Zealand has the worst rate of homelessness of any developed nation in the world—the worst rate of homelessness of any developed nation in the world. The Government's comprehensive emergency plan is to spend $140000 a day on motel rooms. We can talk about the big numbers. We can talk about the percentages. I want to talk about a constituent of mine who approached my office just this morning. He will not be getting into a motel room and he will not be getting into a State house either. He lives in a shed. He lives in a shed. He is on ACC so he is getting a little bit of money from one week to the next. But he is not in a dire enough situation to be offered emergency housing or a spot on the waiting list. He is living in a shed and there is no place in the National Government's system for him to get into a home. That is wrong. That is outrageous.That is the state that we are in in this country after 9 long years of a National Government that does not care about people. All it cares about is figures and numbers and headline growth. What has pushed that growth? It is population growth. The truth is that in real terms person by person we are no better off than we were when National first came to Government. Incomes are not rising in real terms. Housing costs are gobbling up what additional income people get. GDP per capita growth is sluggish. The only thing that is driving growth in this country is population growth and that is at an astonishing rate because this Government has allowed immigration to go through the roof.Immigration in and of itself is not a bad thing. In fact it is a good thing for New Zealand. We rely on immigration. We need people to come from overseas to fill jobs here in New Zealand. But it does become a problem when the Government fails to plan for that growth when the Government fails to build the houses that those people need to live in when the Government fails to build the roads and the public transport that those people need to travel around on and when the Government fails to invest in the hospitals that we need to provide healthcare for those people or the schools to educate those people and their children.It is not just the migrants who lose out when the Government fails to plan. It is everybody in New Zealand. Belatedly the National Government decided in April this year that it would come up with a policy to maybe slow down the rate of population growth slow down immigration. But it was such a half-baked plan so poorly thought through because the Government failed to engage with the debate and then came out with a knee-jerk reaction which sounded like it had been dreamt up the night before that now Bill English is overriding the immigration Minister and saying that those policies that were due to be implemented in 2 weeks' time are not going to go ahead. What a shambles. What a shambles of a Government after 9 years that it cannot even get a straightforward policy like that sorted out.This country needs a new Government—not just one that is prepared to invest in the public services and the infrastructure that we need but one that has thought through its policies that has a proper plan for the future of New Zealand and that has a leader with integrity. We used to think Bill English had integrity but then the Todd Barclay case came along and he ducked and he weaved and he lied and he hid. It is time for a fresh approach a new Government led by Andrew Little.