Faafoi KrisKRIS FAAFOI (Labour—Mana): I would like to speak to the new clause 12 in new Part 3 and I want to acknowledge my colleague Phil Twyford for putting forward this extremely important part of this legislation. But I do have a concern about it because section 50T(1) in new Part 5B in new clause 12 says: The Minister of Housing must prepare a plan in consultation with the Corporation …". I also want to pay homage to my colleague Stuart Nash and thank him for breaking down some of the language around some of the functions that we want to achieve with this new Part 3 but I have serious concerns about its achievability with the current Minister for Building and Housing. That is the point that I would like to make. If we are asking the current Minister of housing to prepare a plan we would want a Minister of housing to have experience of preparing a plan and from what I have seen of Minister Nick Smith in the period that he has been the Minister for Building and Housing I would say that all of his policy interventions have been to use a word I do not use a lot extemporaneous—that is without prior planning or thought or preparation. What we have seen from the Minister in the past 4½ years I think it is of his being the Minister for Building and Housing really has been shambolic. The fact that we are here in urgency extending one of those pieces of legislation points out to me that the Minister has not been experienced or well versed and he has not had any success in preparing a plan and executing it. We also do not think that we have any chance of the current Minister of housing delivering 10000 affordable houses. So what really needs to happen for new section 50T(1)—which is amending the Housing Corporation Act 1974—to be really practically put into place is essentially a change of Government. If we want someone to act as the Minister of housing and "prepare a plan in consultation"—and we have not seen a lot of that with this Minister or with the other Ministers of housing I believe also. The lack of consultation the day before Budget day showed how much consultation goes on within those three. There is a lack of consultation in the ability for the current Government to provide 10000 affordable houses per year for first-home buyers. So this amendment does set to put in a policy that will help address the housing crisis and if the Government is true to its form—Mr Nick Smith has got on his feet many times and said that we are not serious about building more affordable homes for New Zealand. Well if Government members are serious about that then they should and they could support our new Part 3. I am not holding my breath because of the track record of the current Minister for Building and Housing. So although I think it is a great amendment to the Housing Corporation Act 1974 if we are going to really effect it then for at least the next 12 months I think the Government should consider changing the personnel because it simply is not going to happen with Nick Smith in the seat. Then after the next election new Part 3 will become much more functional because Phil Twyford will be the Minister of housing and we will make things happen. We will get affordable housing into Auckland especially and into other areas of New Zealand that need it. And it is not just Auckland where affordable housing is needed. It is needed in Wellington it is needed in areas like Rotorua and Tauranga and it is needed in some areas in the South Island. Then finally the amendment that is being put forward by Phil Twyford—new clause 12 in this amendment which would insert this new Part 5B into the Housing Corporation Act—will actually be able to achieve something. That is something that this Government has been woefully short of trying to achieve in its last 8 years."