Delahunty CatherineCATHERINE DELAHUNTY (Green): Tēnā koe Mr Chair. Tēnā koutou e Te Whare. I am delighted to see some passion in this Chamber. Unlike Minister Brownlee passion is what this is about. Nick Smith showed enormous passion. Passion for development passion for investment passion for speculation passion for business as usual passion for ignoring Part 3 which is proposed in an excellent amendment from the Labour Party which has given us something to hope for and hold on to in this ridiculous debate which prior to that was about nothing useful at all. So if people want to dis members of Parliament for being passionate they better not go out there on the street—Carmel Sepuloni: They better not!CATHERINE DELAHUNTY: They better not go—Hon Member: Don't show passion!CATHERINE DELAHUNTY: Do not go out there and tell people to not be passionate. If you are sleeping in your car and you wake up in the middle of the night the person is passionate to have a home. And how does it go down in the Chamber? Don't get passionate Marama Davidson. Don't show any feelings. This isn't about feelings. Let's get some graphs instead. You cannot build a house out of a graph but if we get up a whole lot of graphs it will look like we're doing something." Fail fail double fail.I want to just congratulate the Labour Party on actually having a plan because we have been fighting about housing in this House for a few years and the Labour Party has got a plan that we can all buy into because it has got specific targets for actually doing something for people. The homelessness inquiry backs up what this plan talks about. The homelessness inquiry backs up the need for passion. What makes change is passion; it is not graphs people. Nobody gets passionate about a graph except people who do not understand what passion is.Marama Davidson: Or connection.CATHERINE DELAHUNTY: Passion and connection are the most important things for families who feel like they are being ignored by this Government.It is a bit like swimmable rivers—the same Minister says we cannot have swimmable rivers because it is all about birds. This same Minister is talking about housing "We can't have affordable housing because"—dot dot dot dot dot. "The graph says everything's OK." It is all about "no" it is all about "not" and it is all about "won't".Let us get on to Part 3 because this is about something constructive and I want to tautoko the comments of the previous speaker Stuart Nash who looked at the language. Language is important. Language is critical. The language that he referred to is very very important. It is really important that there are dates in this Part 3 amendment. It is really important that it says: "Within six months of the completion of the plan … the Minister must present a copy of the approved plan to the House of Representatives." Wow that sounds a little bit real—6 months!If you are living in a car 6 months seems like quite a long time to wait but I think people understand that; if there is a plan they would be prepared to hold on. They would be prepared—as have Te Puea Marae Manurewa Marae and all the marae—to say there needs to be a plan and that they are working towards a plan. But this bill this ain't a plan. Except for this part this bill ain't a plan. Well it is if you are passionate about investment if you are passionate about speculation if you are passionate about taking away land that belongs to Māori if you are passionate about looking like you are doing something when you are really not doing something—yup it is a plan for that. But it is not a plan for people who are homeless not a plan for first-home buyers.What I like about this plan is that it acknowledges—and I said this last night when I talked about the State Advances Corporation and the ability that we had in my day. Not that it is over; I am still passionate obviously. In my day you could get a home as a first-home buyer and start your life. That is what this part actually says—it says you can do those things: "Ensure that the houses are sold to first home buyers and are not used for speculation;". Oh my goodness a rule about speculation! Praise the goddess somebody cares. I do not want to hear from a Minister of the Crown in any Government that it is faux emotional to give a damn about homelessness about houses being inaccessible and unaffordable. If the Government has completely lost touch that is one thing but we have not. The people on this side of the Chamber we are prepared to do something. We just want to do something because if we do not do something the fabric of our society means that everyone will sleep badly. The rich will sleep badly inside their speculator-driven investment-rich barbed wire fences and on the outside the poor in their cars and garages will sleep badly as well. So we need to stand up for this."