Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Honestly Mr Chair I have been trying so many times tonight and I have prepared so many speeches that I really hope you allow me a little bit of leniency to give my six speeches that I have written on this title and commencement debate. This is a relief. The misnamed Housing Legislation Amendment Bill—thank God I have got a chance to speak. It is a misnamed bill because a Housing Legislation Amendment Bill in the context that we are living in in these days in a generally acknowledged housing crisis—you would expect a Housing Legislation Amendment Bill to deliver more housing. Despite what this Minister says this bill is going to do we really have no evidence that it is going to do that. We have been told that this is about supply and that it is about affordability but when the first tranche of this legislation was introduced 3 years ago—again under urgency—the average house price in Auckland was about $730000. We were told this bill was going through under urgency. We were pushing through these proposals that would override council decision-making and control of land use in their communities because we had to prevent the possibility that the average house price in Auckland might get to $1 million within 3 or 4 years. Ha ha! Well it turns out that this proposal and this method that we are extending around the country sped that process up to the quickest tranche that we thought was possible back then. This is absolutely a failed initiative for which this Government is again using urgency to roll-out in an extended way around the country. I think it has delivered maybe—if I address now the supply aspect—1300 houses I understand over 3 years. Actually you have got to think that maybe the market could have delivered that by itself. I am no fan of the market so I really wonder whether this is the Government's concept of intervention of taking control and delivering for the people because if it is it is half-arsed. I would propose that as a better name for this bill than the Housing Legislation Amendment Bill. I would like to say that it is particularly important to note that 1300 houses have been delivered while the Government has sold off 2500 Housing New Zealand houses since 2011. So maybe this bill should be renamed the Let's Go Backwards Bill". The Government's housing agenda maybe is to put everyone on the streets. Maybe it is not enough that just 1 percent of the population or over 1 percent of the population now is homeless. Maybe the Government wants it to be more. Or maybe judging how this Government has voted on all of the brilliant I might say proposals that have been put forward by the members on this side of the Chamber this could be called the "We Don't Really Care Bill". Actually the Government wants to put up this tinkering thing to pretend that it is doing something but when it is given something substantive—like building more houses like putting a plan in place like ensuring emergency housing is available like intervening to address inequality and the absolute rort of investment that is happening in our housing market which is locking people out of the market—then it is "Well we really don't care. We don't want to do any of those things." The Government says: "Don't give us the regulatory impact statements because there is no detail." This is apparent; I think I understand that the legislation has been developed in 6 weeks whereas the proposals that have been put forward from this side of the Chamber—some of them have been considered through a select committee process that of course National did not want to participate in. Some of them have actually been through a select committee process. Some of them have actually been properly worked out and the details are very public. But the Government says no and that we are being hypocritical in challenging it on not providing us with the information. But it is OK. The Government will ignore all of our information and all New Zealanders' comments on this issue. I do want to speak just a little bit to the Housing New Zealand decision to not return the dividend to Housing New Zealand."