Collins JudithHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura): Thank you Mr Speaker. This Government has played fast and loose on housing. Six months ago the Government announced it would have a KiwiBuild reset in a few weeks. Fast and loose. It wasn't in April it wasn't in the Budget. It was going to be in July—no July's gone. We're now in August; apparently it's going to be in September. We wait and we wait.In August last year Phil Twyford said that he was going to redo all of the residential tenancy rules and have a look at the whole thing; there would be a review. What's happened? Nothing. Fast and loose again. He said if landlords don't like it well then they can take their money elsewhere—that's what he said. What has happened is that landlords have taken their money elsewhere.They are now in this Government overseeing the worst State housing crisis that this country has ever seen. We now have 12000 families waiting on the State house waiting register—12000 families—up from 6000 families when the National Government left office almost two years ago. When the Government changed Labour said they were going to fix what they had described as the housing crisis" and what they've done now is build more tents.We've heard from the Green member Marama Davidson who talks about a rent-to-buy scheme using State housing. These are the same people who opposed every attempt that National had to get people who are State tenants into owning their own home.What we have seen is the State house waiting list double. We have seen in the Speech from the Throne that there would be a rent-to-buy scheme introduced. Nothing has been delivered. In two years we've just seen people given promises; promises made and then not delivered on. Again it's a fast and loose Government on housing.Phil Twyford liked to walk around with tears in his little eyes saying "We've now got a housing Minister who acknowledges we have a housing crisis." Well he's just made it worse and that's the problem. Many New Zealanders have to rent—or choose to rent depending on their circumstances—and the one thing that they need is a house not a tent but that's what we're getting under this Government.Remember: we were going to have no more people living in cars in the winter. Now actually that number has gone up. Where's the media? Oh I don't know maybe no longer talking to Labour as they were. The Labour Party had nine years in Opposition to work with the National Party—and the then Government—on Resource Management Act (RMA) reform. They refused every single—every single—overture to work with us to bring forward really good RMA reform to free up housing land to free up the cost of houses to free up getting more houses built. Instead what we now have is that Phil Twyford's admitted we need major housing reform and I see the new State housing Minister Kris Faafoi overseeing the worst housing crisis in State housing we've ever seenKiwiBuild was always a farce. And what we've seen is all these houses promised under KiwiBuild—remember it was 1000 in the first year; we've got 83. Well 83 is OK; it's not 1000 though. In Canterbury there's an underwrite—a promise a guarantee a price—of 70 houses that were already under construction anyway. Six of those have been sold. Almost two years in and six of them have been sold.We're going to have to as a Parliament appropriate money for 64 houses in Canterbury off the same developer in just a few weeks. In that time almost nothing has happened. We in Government had nine years and we brought in all sorts things like the HomeStart scheme. We got 70000 families or young couples into their first home and this Government has done almost nothing. They've promised big. They've talked big they've had a little cry; what they haven't done is actually deliver for New Zealanders. They've been very fast and loose with the truth about what they could deliver—SPEAKER: Order! Order!Hon JUDITH COLLINS: —and what they needed to actually do. They've been very fast and loose with housing Mr Speaker and they haven't been able to deliver on their promises. When this Government announces its reset in some more weeks' or possibly months' time it's going to reset back to the National Party policy that actually delivered—a party that delivered nine years of progress."