Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Malo 'aupito e Te Māngai o Te Whare. We are now in the 18th hour of debating this bill under urgency and I think it is really important that I clarify our position on the bill particularly in relation to the two parts of the bill that were presented before the House before the commencement of debate because in fact we have debated eight parts of this piece of legislation.Part 1 which we support—and I want to reiterate that—is to extend the smooth transition to the Auckland Unitary Plan which commences on 16 September 2016. It was done to ensure that eight specific developments could continue—that those developers would not have to submit new resource consents. The relevance actually to the whole discussion about affordability is 591 affordable houses because those eight specific developments are going to provide 7880 houses. We support that part of the bill.In terms of Part 2 we are very clear that we do not support that part of the bill. The reason that we do not support that part of the bill—actually I am going to quote from section 16 of the Public Works Act where the Minister is empowered to acquire under this Act any land required for a Government work." and any local authority is empowered to acquire any land for local work. But there is an explicit contract in our Public Works Act that land not needed be offered back to the person from whom it was acquired. That is essentially our primary opposition to Part 2: we think that we have circumvented that explicit contract between the Crown and New Zealand citizens who have handed over parts of their property to public works for the greater good. That essentially is our opposition to that part of the legislation.There were three other parts to this piece of legislation that I specifically want to mention the first of which was new Part 3 introduced by my colleague Phil Twyford. Really it was about providing 10000 affordable houses per year for first-home buyers. Our rationale for those 10000 affordable houses for first-home buyers is actually about the number of houses that we sell in New Zealand every year. There are 90790-odd homes sold in New Zealand every year and approximately 21 percent of those purchasers are first-home buyers based on 2015 statistics provided by CoreLogic. That is 19066 first-home buyers in the last financial year. This particular amendment was incredibly relevant to that practice.The second part that I want to highlight for the House is new Part 7 which amended the Housing Corporation Act. It was about the distribution of profits. Again I want to acknowledge Metiria Turei because essentially the proposition was for surplus profits. In 2014-15 it was a $226 million profit that should be reinvested back to provide rental housing for those most in need. That is an incredibly important principle and I think it needs to be highlighted.New Part 8 which was amending the Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters Act 1992 was about increasing the supply of Housing New Zealand properties by 1000 every year. It is relevant when we look back at the number of people waiting on housing lists. If I read the numbers out in March 2012 there 4637 people on the waiting list; in March 2013 4495 people; in June 2014 5840 people; in September 2015 4467; and as of July 2016 we have 5012 New Zealanders waiting on the Housing New Zealand waiting list. Actually increasing the housing stock every year by 1000 would help meet this chronic need which has now been displayed for the last 5 years.I just want to end with some statistics from Manurewa Marae. Manurewa Marae has got 64 people who are currently residing at Manurewa Marae and of those essentially 67 percent of the people at Manurewa Marae are children. The issues that we are dealing with are about how we are preparing the next generation for the opportunities that we want to provide them. Their being homeless is actually a shame on our country. Kia ora."