Eagle Paul; Dyson RuthPAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai): Thank you Madam Chair. I'm always excited as I say every time to talk about housing and this Government's programme because as we know we inherited a housing crisis—and we're not shy to say that. On that side of the House though they denied it for nine long years and neglected this fundamental issue of every Kiwi every New Zealander having a warm dry home. But look we want to just get on with it and fix this housing crisis and this work is a key part of that.As we know this is about bringing together our public housing component which is none other than Housing New Zealand Corporation together with HLC—Homes. Land. Community. formerly the Hobsonville Land Company—and of course the KiwiBuild function. Within those are synergies that we want to bring together and ensure a focused housing production and development effort notwithstanding the ethos of a public housing service. That is the heart of this Government's housing policy.I want to focus on Part 2 and just endorse some of those comments that my colleague has talked about in terms of the Minister issuing a Government policy statement (GPS) on housing and urban development. We've heard already that the hard-working committee the Environment Committee—and thanks to the members of that committee who were allocated this critical piece of work because they certainly had a very close look. There were I think 90-something submissions from memory. I haven't got the paperwork here but over 90 submissions into this and some changes were made—appropriate changes can I say in terms of responding to those submissions.We've heard about the Government policy statement having that multi-decade outlook and can I say that that's vital for housing. This shouldn't be a Government-by-Government programme—Angie Warren-Clark: Election cycle.PAUL EAGLE: An election cycle—that's the term I was looking for. Thank you Angie Warren-Clark. It should take that long-term view because it's vital that this has a pipeline. We've just come off the back of the Infrastructure Commission. Housing wasn't mentioned in that but housing of course is infrastructure. This is vital to that and ensuring that we can look at the housing continuum and every single aspect along there whether it's the homelessness the array of the affordable housing—be it rental key worker or say a rent-to-own scheme through to those seeking just to simply look at the homes they do own and make some additions or otherwise through a regulatory framework. All of those need to be part of that multi-decade outlook but tied to a long-term vision for the sector. That's what the Government policy statement intention is and that's been included.I can now see the link—and I won't say it wasn't obvious—in terms of putting it through the Environment Committee. There was no surprise when the expectation came back that there was a contribution to climate change mitigation and adaptation and that's important. I'm proud that the committee chose to ensure that this Government's environmental vision is connected in a way where our public servants those officials who do the mahi on the ground will link that work into housing. Look I haven't got time to go—CHAIRPERSON (Hon Ruth Dyson): I'm really sorry to interrupt the member but the time has come for the dinner break.Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.