Faafoi KrisKRIS FAAFOI (Labour—Mana): I understand we are on clause 4 of the bill. My colleagues Chris Hipkins and Ruth Dyson have commented on the fact that within this repeal bill we have clauses and pieces of legislation that are being enacted and updated and there are questions around that.My contribution goes to Part 1 of schedule 3 which I understand is in clause 4. It goes to something that is being repealed and that is the Home Ownership Savings Act 1974. It was probably a really creative piece of legislation of the Labour Government at the time to encourage homeownership. I feel that maybe this is one of those pieces of legislation that we should look at that possibly could have been looked at a little bit closer as to whether we could have kept it and looked at some other creative ways of homeownership because of New Zealand's declining rate of homeownership at the moment.Schedule 3 under the Home Ownership Savings Act 1974 does repeal the definitions of things like ordinary farm ownership accounts ordinary fishing vessel ownership accounts special farm ownership accounts and special fishing vessel ownership accounts. As you can see from the kinds of things that we are repealing that Labour Government of the time was probably taking some really fresh approaches to encourage ownership of homes—a lot different from what the current Government is doing. I think it is very interesting that we have got a Government that is repealing something called the Home Ownership Savings Act 1974.It does not surprise me at all because the current Government does not seem to care about the declining rate of homeownership in New Zealand. It does not seem to care that the likes of Auckland has got massive issues with growing populations and not enough affordable housing to cater for them. It is no surprise to me whatsoever that this National Government is opposed to something called the Home Ownership Savings Act. The Government has little or no commitment to homeownership itself so it does not surprise me whatsoever that Part 1 of schedule 3 includes the repeal of the Home Ownership Savings Act.I do not have any questions for the Minister because I know what she will say. She will have no answer to the fact that this Government is quite happy to see something like the Home Ownership Savings Act repealed because it has had no plan for increasing homeownership in New Zealand whatsoever.The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Chester Borrows): Order! I want to just draw the member's attention to the rules around the Committee stage which is about talking about submissions before the select committee Supplementary Order Papers and asking the Minister questions. It is not a chance for a rant. That is for one of the speeches the member may well give in one of the reading stages of the bill.KRIS FAAFOI: I was just about to get into the rant so I will take a different tack. I do not think there probably were any submissions on this fact whatsoever but—The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Chester Borrows): You cannot talk about what there was not either. You can only talk about what there was.KRIS FAAFOI: But if there were some submissions on this I would suggest there would be a lot of people concerned about this Government and its lack of commitment to homeownership as shown by its repealing of the Home Ownership Savings Act 1974. Thank you very much for the opportunity.