Davidson Marama: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDavidson Marama: General Debate[Sitting date: 08 June 2016. Volume:714;Page:11793. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]MARAMA DAVIDSON (Green):Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. Tēnā koutou e Te Whare. I have some questions because yesterday in the House during question time David Seymour asked the Prime Minister whether he had checked to make sure that people were actually homeless instead of just renovating. The Prime Minister responded and said: “No but you know perhaps we should have a policy for checking to make sure that people are not renovating and are instead homeless.” The Prime Minister rolled around and laughed with it joked around and so did most on the benches actually. So I have some questions and I would like to know whether given the Prime Minister’s behaviour and joking response in the House yesterday to a question around homelessness he will apologise to New Zealanders for not taking the issue seriously.I have quite a few questions. I would like to know whether the Prime Minister will apologise to the 11 year-old girl who loves school particularly maths reading and languages also Beyoncé and kapahaka looks forward to school and wants to do well but is failing in her schooling a bit because she is living in a van with her family of eight. She is definitely not renovating. I would also like to know whether the Prime Minister will apologise to the disabled mum with children who has been shoved out of her rental property because her community is now unaffordable and out of her reach and she is finding herself at the back of the line trying to rent another property in a another cheaper area and trying to find an appropriate house. That mum is not renovating. I have another question and wonder whether the Prime Minister will apologise to the family of 15-day-old baby Mereana who was welcomed to Te Puea Marae just very recently because her family was living without a home. Baby Mereana is not renovating.I would also like to know from the Prime Minister whether he will advise his Ministers to go and visit Te Puea Marae as a first step and as part of the Government’s commitment to urgently addressing this housing crisis. There is one renovation that Te Puea Marae needs to do because one of their buildings—where they are storing mountains of clothing donated by generous and also poor-income people in their community—has been filled up and there are no lights in there at night. When I was working in that room with the marae we could work only until 5 o’clock before it got dark. It is quite possible that Te Puea could do some renovating.On television news yesterday Paula Bennett refused to give Te Puea Marae and other marae like Manurewa who are now setting up to help the homeless any official status as emergency housing providers. She refused because she said that year after year after year the marae would just keep having to help these homeless people. The Minister for Social Housing admitted that her Government cannot actually solve the housing crisis and instead wants New Zealanders to accept that this is normal.Most New Zealanders—kind compassionate ordinary New Zealanders—do not accept that this is normal. They understand that this Government is doing its best to do as little as it can rather than all it can to ensure that families are in warm dry affordable homes. When the Greens are in Government I look forward—and I understand that New Zealanders want us to do all that we can and use all the tools and resources that we have—to ensuring that all New Zealanders are living in a warm dry affordable home and are not just renovating.