Eagle Paul; Mallard TrevorPAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai): Mr Speaker thank you very much. Whoo! What an afternoon. I was just saying to people over the weekend when they were saying Look we don't want to watch"—[Interruption] Whoo! When I was trying to convince them to watch the parliamentary TV then what better TV to watch this afternoon? But can I just say that when I dropped off my 3½-year-old yesterday it reminded me of just that. There was talking here. They couldn't hear it properly. Someone stormed out. Someone told someone else. And then the whole lot sort of stormed out of the room from getting the plasticine into the sleep room. Amazing! Who would have thought 24 hours later I'm seeing it in the Parliament of New Zealand. But here it is throwing toys out. God how exciting! And what was more exciting actually—I was just watching the member for Hutt South Chris Bishop there. He was thinking "Is this my chance—is this my chance?"Kiritapu Allan: A contender.PAUL EAGLE: No no no. He was. He looked around back forward and over there: "Is this my turn?" He sort of had the package ready to go and to go from there to there—like "Could I do it?"Jamie Strange: He had the press release ready to go.PAUL EAGLE: Could he do it? He had the press release ready to go Facebook Instagram Snapchat Twitter anything else and he was ready to go—Heather du Plessis-Allan as well over here. But look he was ready to go and I thought "Is this it? Am I going to witness an historic moment?" But it wasn't to be. Look this could have been true history in the making but not today. So the anger the frothing at the mouth the kids play the toys—whoo! I'm excited.But what I want to say is this: I'm really excited at the fact that it's taken me about six months to get a speaking slot in the general debate.Hon Member: And you've wasted half of it.PAUL EAGLE: Yeah yeah. No no. They always save the good ones for the exciting moments and that's why I'm here today. They roll me out because they know that today is going to be the big day and it happened when I last spoke and it happened again this afternoon. I always get the big days. I love it. I don't know why. It's karma. I don't know why. But in that speech I talked about the dark clouds over the Rongotai electorate but guess what? On Friday the dark clouds were removed because the Rt Hon Prime Minister came and opened my electorate office and instantly the 150 people—National Party voters I have to say were added into that list—looked up in Newtown and the skies opened and what they saw was hope. They saw heart. And that's what the Prime Minister spoke about. She spoke about hope and heart and I thought "Now that's a Prime Minister giving people the real message." Look I was just so relieved that when I looked up I thought "No more. No more dark clouds. We've given people hope." She talked strongly about an MP who had heart—that's me by the way. It was me. And I thought: what can we put on the electorate office wall—maybe a painting of a heart or my photo with the Prime Minister? But I digress. What I want to talk about really is the hope that she gave and that this Government is giving to at least the people of Rongotai but I know all of New Zealand. Look I come back to that familiar ground that I love talking about and that's housing. Everywhere I look in Rongotai there's houses being built and I think "Thank you." to the Minister of Housing and Urban Development—this new cut-through agency the Urban Development Authority. What a name. It's going to get building it's going to look after tenants and it's certainly going to work with the private sector and the community to say "Let's get building again." I have the electorate where the first State house was built and opened. I only wish they'd open the first KiwiBuild house in Rongotai too. Never mind there'll be a new initiative and I'll make sure that Rongotai gets the benefit of that too.But I digress again. This is a Government that's delivering hope with MPs and members of a coalition Government who truly have heart. Look can I encourage those who are watching—all seven of you—that this is the channel to watch. This is where the excitement comes from. And look when I'm back in nine months' time Mr Speaker you can expect another riveting speech—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."