Yule LawrenceLAWRENCE YULE (National—Tukituki): General debates are about bringing things to this House that matter and that are important to your electorate and are important to New Zealand. I'm going to use my short time to highlight a really significant issue in my electorate and in my city of Hastings in this year of supposed delivery from this Government. That is around housing.In 2016 the Hon Phil Twyford as a member of the Opposition said he wanted a state of emergency declared around housing in New Zealand. On 23 May in an answer to question No. 6 in 2018—almost one year ago—he was critical that the waiting list for State houses in Hastings had gone up by 86 percent. On 1 May this year—this day nearly half-way through the Government's year of non-delivery—we have one hectare of vacant land in Hastings completely serviced and ready to go and no houses on it. In fact in the last 12 months six houses have been built by Housing New Zealand in Hastings—six. One-hundred-and-twenty have been built under a papakāinga housing development which I supported when I was the previous mayor.In 2019—this year—do you know how many houses Housing New Zealand are going to build in Hastings? Seventeen—seventeen. And next year they are going to demolish 15 and build 51—a net addition of 36. Yet at the very same time in Hawke's Bay 440 of our children are living in motels many of them for over one year. There are 615 people on the waiting list and the Hastings District Council CEO thinks we're about 1800 houses short. This is a national and New Zealand disgrace. It is outrageous that in my community 440 children are living in motels for this winter and for many of them for over a year.I accept—I accept—that the National Government when it was in power didn't get everything right in Hastings. I was the mayor at the time and I could see what was happening. Houses were taken down and advice was given to the Government that there wasn't a demand. Well guess what: the Labour coalition Government is in charge and in the first 12 months—actually 18 now—they have built six houses.In my view what has happened in Hastings is a New Zealand disgrace. This Government so far in its first 18 months in office delivering for my people when they had all the land available all the services there—for them to deliver just six houses is incompetent. It's incompetent at a ministerial level and it's incompetent at a senior bureaucratic level. I like the people in my electorate that work in the Ministry of Social Development and housing. They're working hard. But when I see 440 children in Hawke's Bay living in motels and vacant land we have got something seriously wrong. When I listen to oral questions in this House being asked about Wānaka I hold my head in shame. When KiwiBuild can build 211 houses in Wānaka put 11 on the market and sell five and I have 440 children—children—in Hawke's Bay living in a motel I hold my head in shame. It is shameful what's occurring in Hastings. I am pleased and thank the Prime Minister and other Ministers for coming to Hastings a couple of weeks ago but can I say to them: I put them on notice. The housing situation in New Zealand in Hastings is a New Zealand disgrace. And the performance of this Government so far in this space is nothing less than a shambles.