Shearer DavidDAVID SHEARER (Labour—Mt Albert): As other speakers have said it was a great weekend last weekend with a rout right across the country: in Auckland Wellington Dunedin even in Wanganui—Hamish McDouall Labour Party to the core wins in Wanganui. It was good to see Auckland Future—although I understand it is changing its name to Auckland Past"—passed over passed away dead on the ground. It got only one councillor on to the Auckland Council. I listened to Parmjeet Parmar speaking just before and I want to say two words to her: Michael Wood. Those are the two words that you will wake up to every morning thinking "Oh my God I don't want to face Michael Wood because he is beating me."—and he will.It has not only been a good weekend but it has actually been quite a good start to the week as well and I want to tell you why. We see this National Government looking at policy and developing policy through its polling. Michael Woodhouse admitted the other day on Monday that tens of millions of dollars were being lost to parents of immigrants who have been coming to New Zealand and that he was going to curb those immigrants coming. The question we have is not how pathetic his policies are because they are pretty pathetic but why it has taken him so long. We have been telling him as other Opposition parties have been to start curbing immigration because it is putting pressure on our infrastructure pressure on our housing and pressure on our wages as well. Australia has already acted months ago the Reserve Bank was warning about it ages ago and this Government has taken months and months and months of sitting on its hands doing nothing about immigration. It is another example of this Government which has run out of ideas now turning to the Opposition for ideas instead.Just to prove that point Bill English yesterday announced that 30000 houses were going to be built. What does it look like to me?Hon David Parker: KiwiBuild.DAVID SHEARER: Thank you Mr Parker. It looks like KiwiBuild—KiwiBuild a Labour policy to build 100000 houses actually. It is a whole lot more ambitious—Hon David Parker: Announced when you were leader.DAVID SHEARER: It was announced when I was leader in 2012 and if this Government had listened and picked up that policy we would not be in the situation where we are now where Aucklanders are paying an average of $1 million for each of their houses.Just to pour salt on the wound how many affordable houses have been built and finished in Auckland? How many have been built in the special housing areas? It is 18—18. Nick Smith knows the names. He knows every single one of those people because there are only 18 people who have been able to move into affordable homes in special housing areas. Actually seven of them are in Mt Albert. We thank you for those seven Dr Nick Smith but I am afraid we are going to expect more.I am making a prediction because the Government has stolen the Opposition's policies on immigration and it has stolen them on housebuilding. My prediction is that within the next few months the Government will ban foreign buyers in New Zealand or it will tax them. That is what is going to happen—mark my words. It is what Phil Goff has been asking for in Auckland. It is what Aucklanders have been asking for. Vancouver in Canada put it in. Its housing market was on fire and now it has gone down. This Government will do it because it knows its polling is telling them that that is what Aucklanders and people right across New Zealand want.If you are going to get these wishy-washy weak limp pathetic policies that are coming through from the National Party why do you not get the full McCoy—the wholesome red-blooded Labour policies that they were copied from? Next year you get that opportunity. The Labour Party has been around for 100 years. It has transformed New Zealand and it will do it again in 2017."