Faafoi KrisHon KRIS FAAFOI (Associate Minister of Housing (Public Housing)): Just for those who are watching at home I just want to reflect on some of the contribution that was made by the last speaker from the Opposition Louise Upston because it has become clear to me over the last three or four months that the Opposition doesn't care about facts. It is trumpeting a lot of misinformation and has gone full Trump in its desperate efforts to try and discredit a lot of the good work that this Government is doing and the one example that I would like to bring to your attention is that Louise Upston said that there were originally 4000 places in Mana in Mahi and we've backtracked that to 2000. That is an out and out mistruth. She knows what she's doing and—CHAIRPERSON (Hon Anne Tolley): Order! Order! No you can't actually accuse a—Hon KRIS FAAFOI: OK. Well that is not correct and everything you hear tonight from the Opposition—I suggest everyone at home who is listening to this take it with a grain of salt because I would like to give credit to my colleague the Hon Willie Jackson for the Mana in Mahi programme which started out as 150 places. We've increased it to 2000 places not what Louise Upston said where we've scaled back from 4000 to 2000. That is the extent of the desperation from the other side of the House where they would blatantly go out and misinterpret or put misinformation out there to make the good work of this Government that we've done in the last 24 months look bad. But I think getting called out by that is one of the only ways that we can counter that.So I'm really looking forward to the rest of the contributions from the members on the other side of the House to see what other misinformation they may be putting out there because I want to give those people on that side of the House one figure that you cannot argue with and that is 3.8 percent unemployment—the lowest unemployment in 11 years lower than it was in the previous nine years of the National Government and you cannot argue with that. We are making sure that people have got jobs and are able to support their families because we have delivered the lowest unemployment rate—3.8 percent.I am proud that we are tackling the long-term issues and one of my recent new responsibilities is around housing and we are doing an excellent job of ensuring that public housing spaces are available for New Zealanders that need it. We inherited a position where the previous Government was selling off State houses not building them. The waiting lists are growing and we are building more houses and we've got a goal of 6400 more public houses over the next four years to ensure that people have a safe warm and dry and affordable home to live in. In fact that's 1600 on average per year and in the previous 12 months to June we overshot that mark by about 700. So we're doing an extremely good job of building homes faster and making sure that they are affordable homes for New Zealanders to live in.So what did we inherit? We inherited a housing crisis that the previous Government said and it promised around special housing areas that it would build 39000 homes. What did they deliver? Three thousand homes and only 100 of those homes were affordable homes. That is a fact and let's see what they say on the other side of the House as opposed to what this Government is doing and delivering those 6400 homes to make sure that those people who desperately need a home are going to get it. We aren't a Government that is going to sell off State houses; we are a Government that is going to build State houses. We are not a Government that is going to sit back and watch foreign investors come into New Zealand and ramp up the prices of those houses and make those houses unaffordable to Kiwi first-home buyers. So we have already in our first 24 months ensured that foreign buyers cannot buy homes here in New Zealand unless they want to build and add to the housing stock.This is a Government that is focussed on the long-term issues for New Zealanders which is why my good friend and colleague Megan Woods in the reset is doing things to make sure that homeownership is more realistic for New Zealanders by giving them some assistance. I have been with her over the last couple of months talking to community housing providers talking to banks talking to those in the sector to make sure that New Zealanders have a better pathway to homeownership and we are dealing with the issues that the previous Government ignored which means that waiting lists are going up and will probably get worse before they get better. But we are doing something about it when that previous Government did absolutely nothing.