Leavasa Dr Anae NeruDr ANAE NERU LEAVASA (Labour—Takanini): Thank you Mr Speaker. It's a pleasure to take a call the last call for this general debate on housing such an important issue across New Zealand not only for our Pacific whānau but for everyone included. I just have to look to my parents to get an example of what homeownership is all about and the struggles of not having one. My parents migrated here from Samoa in the early 1980s. We settled in Ponsonby / Grey Lynn and we moved from house to house and it was a struggle; my parents worked a few jobs while we were so young. I'm just so glad that in the 1980s under the Labour Government there was a housing scheme to help first-home buyers in terms of getting a loan to secure that. My parents were so blessed they were able to settle subsequently in South Auckland with their first home. So when we talk about whānau trying to settle we found it a struggle to try to settle in terms of the early 1980s when my parents did migrate here and I'm so glad that we were able to settle in South Auckland.I only look when I try to localise this housing issue into my own electorate of Takanini. The suburbs involved: we have Flat Bush; Mission Heights in our northern end; moving down to Clover Park; Manurewa East; down to Conifer Grove; Wattle Downs; and Takanini itself. Look our electorate is rapidly growing; it is one of the fastest-growing in New Zealand—an annual growth rate of 5 percent compared to the New Zealand average of 2.1 percent. Our population is young. A lot of our large families are there. We are ranked one of the first in terms of dwellings that have five or more bedrooms. That data will have changed since 2018 and we're only seeing more of our families settling in the Takanini electorate. So having the announcements yesterday will definitely help in terms of our larger families—in my electorate access for First Home Loans for First Home Grants and getting their first home secured. I look to the diverse nature of the population in my electorate. We not only have our large Pacific community our large migrant community our large multi-ethnic community—our Indian our Asian our South Asian communities that have settled in Takanini. And I can say that from the multiple emails or social media platform messages that I get regarding the housing crisis I'm sure that many of my constituents will be very happy in receiving the news yesterday.I look at the multiple levers of the housing programme that have been announced and I just want to look at again the first-home buyers like my mum and dad in the 1980s in terms of getting those home grants and the home loan programmes. I look at the removing of the barriers holding up the building of new homes—the $3.8 billion housing acceleration fund that's available for local councils and the private sector. I look to the many programmes in my electorate where I look at the Ormiston Rise Mahia Park Murphy's Park developments. These are areas that again due to the rapidly growing population will have access to the infrastructure needed to build more homes in our electorate and make sure that the rapidly growing population will have secured their homes as well—in terms of incentivising investment in new builds again looking at those programmes I've laid out.I was privileged to go and see one of our training providers on the Takanini and Papakura border. It is called the Skills Update Training Institute and it was great to meet up with Josh Levi who is the general manager there. The team was so welcoming of my team coming across and seeing the multiple programmes that they provide and looking at their building carpentry and programmes that will help get our community members into apprenticeships. So those are the things that I'm pretty happy about that will make a real change in my community not only providing those homes for our rapidly growing population but also the training provided to get our community members into good jobs that will secure their future. And that's why I support the levers announced. Thank you Mr Speaker.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed.