Delahunty CatherineCATHERINE DELAHUNTY (Green): Tēnā koutou e Te Whare. This has been an interesting debate. If my colleague has been accused of being sanctimonious just wait for what I have got. I wonder what the people sitting in the motels who have been sent there by Work and Income because they have got nowhere to live watching Parliament TV—because what else would you do; I am sure they are all glued to the screen—think about this bill. I wonder how those people feel listening to this technical and arcane debate when what they want is somewhere to live that they can afford. I wonder what they think about the special housing areas rhetoric which turns out to be business as usual. It turns out to be the Government saying We're doing something by not really doing something." which is quite a familiar theme to any observer of Parliament. I wonder how it feels for the people who testified at the Cross-Party Homelessness Inquiry when they read Part 1 of this bill and look for the innovative committed and justice-based provisions that are going to provide them with a home. I wonder what they think of us as they know we are going home to comfortable homes and they are going back to the car the garage or the transience of 22 different homes in 3 years for a child. We call this a debate about housing? This is not a debate about housing; this is about some weird excuse for acting on something that the Government has not got the guts to call a crisis. Why are we in urgency? Because this is a crisis—it is a crisis of conscience for this Parliament to sit here in 2016 and make up rules about housing that will assist and facilitate developers but do nothing for the people who are shut out. They are shut out from $200000 homes let alone $500000 or $600000 homes. Get real for a change people. Do these people who write this legislation know what it is like to have no home? I will listen to Marama Davidson and Metiria Turei because they know—because Marama is a renter in South Auckland. Why do we not listen to the renters in South Auckland and the people who have parked up for homes? They know what the people are going through. It is too late in the history of this time to treat people as if homelessness was something that could be fixed by some bizarre tinkering with the market. It cannot be fixed by that. The people on the streets are looking at us for guidance and leadership right now and what are we giving them? Special housing areas over sacred sites in Tāmaki-makau-rau. When I was a child my parents bought a house through the State Advances Corporation. When I became an adult I capitalised the family benefit so that I could have a kitchen and bathroom for my child on a floor that was not sloping. I was lucky to be born in that dreadful old socialist welfare terrible era when the State thought that people could have a house that it would help them do it and that when they had it we could get on with our lives as families and build a society and a community that worked. This Government has walked away from that. I am not asking for a romantic latte-free 1950s reality; I am just asking for the State to take responsibility for a crisis. I am just asking that we actually pass legislation here that will facilitate for those who really need it not for those people who like to play the market and who want to invest in a couple of homes. If this bill did what it said it does then Metiria would not need a Supplementary Order Paper and no one would be calling Marama Davidson sanctimonious because she stands up every day in this House for her own people who are constantly marginalised by privilege. But that is not what is happening in this bill. We are in urgency because this issue is so simple that we do not want the public to talk about it. If this Parliament had a solution why would it go into urgency and prevent people from coming and discussing that solution? It is only because this is not a solution that we are having this conversation and blocking out the public. It is a disgrace."