Twyford PhilHon PHIL TWYFORD (Minister of Housing and Urban Development): Thank you Mr Speaker. Good to see a leadership bid come forth from the National front bench. They never clap like that for Simon Bridges do they? They never do. Well that was a pious lecture from the member who leaked the personal details of two beneficiaries while she was the social development Minister. It was her office who leaked the details on Hurimoana Denis to try and smear the personal reputation of someone who was embarrassing that Government over its record on homelessness.Last week we learnt about the home of Ms Dawn Robbie her partner Cameron and her two daughters—a three-year-old and a 10-month-old. They pay $520 a week in rent for a home that has beneath it an ankle-deep swamp underneath the house an unusable flooded yard when it rains. When water from the swamp evaporates moisture rises crumbling the home's polystyrene underfloor insulation. It makes the house damp cold and mouldy and Dawn told National Radio It's mosquito rat infested. We're living in shit no offence but that's literally how it feels." It's been like that for the last 21 months since Ms Dawn Robbie moved in. Her daughter is getting bronchitis at 10 months old. Dawn herself has strep throat. This house is a symbol of the past and it epitomises the need for this Government's positive plan to build a better New Zealand and it's a perfect example of why we need to overhaul the laws on renting and implement the healthy homes standards.Now speaking of unhealthy homes you only need to look across the aisle to see the perfect example of a swamp house. National's caucus would not pass the healthy homes standards. It's leaking it's cold it's not a nice place to be at the moment quite clearly and no one living there has the power to do anything about it. National are stuck in a quagmire. It's their very own swamp house—the perfect symbol for their management of the housing market over the last decade.Four weeks on from the National caucus leak of Simon Bridges' $114000 travel expenses National is still talking about a saboteur in their own ranks. Well they need to drain the swamp. For a party that's so against inquiries they're very keen to spend taxpayer money on an inquiry into who in the National caucus leaked Simon Bridges' travel expenses. Apparently that's focusing on the issues that matter. It's very disappointing for them because you can see it by the way they slump deeper and deeper in their chairs every time this is discussed in question time.Meanwhile the Government is getting on with the job and doing what matters because we're building houses. At the moment we're building 6400 additional public houses. We're investing $4 billion in building thousands of extra State houses because that side of the House reduced the number of State houses by 5000 while they were in office—reduced the number of State houses by 5000.We've just embarked on the biggest building programme that New Zealand has ever seen—a hundred thousand affordable homes for young Kiwi families; something that they refused to do the entire time they were in office. They refused to build houses that young Kiwi families could afford to buy and to live in. We are on the way to building a thousand houses in the first 12 months of the KiwiBuild program—18 houses unveiled last weekend another 12 to come by Christmas. Those 30 families will be the first KiwiBuild homeowners. They will wake up on Christmas morning in their own house—an affordable house delivered to them by this coalition Government. We're also reforming the tenancy laws to make 600000 rental properties in this country warm and dry."