Davidson MaramaHon MARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): What if Aotearoa was a country where we held up housing as a human right as a place for people to put down roots to live in as homes and not just a way to make a few uber-wealthy? What if Aotearoa committed to upholding the mana of all people the way that all people deserve? What if we had a country where people could access the healthcare they need the housing they need the incomes they need the education that will uplift everyone? What if that was the Aotearoa that we would all commit to in this House? I want to offer my aroha ki ngā mate kua haere ki te pō [compassion to the casualties that have passed on into the night]. Those who lost their lives and wellbeing at Loafers Lodge yesterday; those who are connected to those people whose lives were lost; those who helped to try and save and did indeed rescue and now also have their own trauma loss and grief to deal with including the first responders and also the broader community. The loss of lives and wellbeing from yesterday could have been prevented. And that's what I want to say clearly today. These are about political choices that led us to the situation yesterday which is tragic unacceptable and did not need to happen. Political choices have prevented us all from having the Aotearoa that I laid out at the start—an Aotearoa that we all deserve. Political will—and lack of it—has been in the way of something that isn't that radical if we have a think about it; some decent dignified lives for everybody and not just for the few. Collective responsibility should be here to be able to change all of that.The tragedy yesterday asks—and begs us to ask—what do we value the most? What are the choices where people can have housing as a human right where we have a comprehensive warrant of fitness a health system that works for everyone rent controls things that are for the public good income support for people who really need it better wages and conditions? Those are public-good concepts. Those will do us all well. And where first responders including firefighters have what they need to do what they want to do which is to care for everyone and save all of the lives they can. The problems many of them which resulted in yesterday also include boarding houses and accommodation that had been unsafe and unacceptable before one of the houses burnt down yesterday. So many of us—and I mihi to my Green Party colleagues—have been highlighting this before the house burnt down and took lives yesterday. We will continue to raise that space in here about who and what do we value the most. The Greens are constantly asking for a warrant of fitness; scaling-up public council housing public housing State housing community housing—affordable good housing. Not a radical ask I would think—especially in this place. The profit off misery—the profit off misery—that this place has allowed to happen is completely scandalous. The way that we have over 40 years—over 40 years at least—in this House led an economic model that is today seeing people profit off misery. The people who have so little choice. Would any of us be content with any of our whānau—people we love and care for—living with such little choice? The people without the resources and power and influence to be able to stand in this place.This place is supposed to be a House of Representatives. Just today we have had more information; this place is not representative. Not all of us own multiple houses and are going to make rules to change the system are going to make the choices so that everyone can have a good place to live. How can we trust this House when it is not representative? I would like to think no matter how many houses people owned we could still come to a contractual agreement for social good; for public good.Yesterday was unacceptable. We have solutions here that the Greens have been laying out for decades and I urge us all to pick those up and value people who have long been asking to be valued who have long been accepting unacceptable standards as if that's all they deserve. We can do better. We've got the solutions here. It's political will. It's political choice. I urge people to pay responsibility to everyone having dignity and not just building up the wealth for the few. Kia ora.