SpeechDr PARMJEET PARMAR (National): To start I want to acknowledge the member in charge of this bill Kelvin Davis. The Housing Corporation (Affordable Housing Development) Amendment Bill as we know is inspired by the Labour Party's KiwiBuild policy. We know that under the KiwiBuild policy Labour would allocate $2 billion to build 100000 houses over a period of 10 years. In this bill the member is proposing to build that exact number of houses—10000 houses per year—improving the supply of houses to make houses affordable and improving the supply of land. But if you look at Labour's policy that is allocating $2 billion to build 100000 houses over a period of 10 years and if you do the maths properly with $2 billion we can build not 10000 not 100000 but only 4000 houses. That means you have to recycle your funds. Recycle recycle recycle—not five times not 10 times not 20 times but 25 times. Is that practical? No that is not practical.As this bill is based on this flawed policy of the Labour Party I am taking this call to oppose this bill. I can understand the intention behind this bill. On this side of the House we value homeownership highly as well and that is why we are continuing our focus on improving the supply of houses. To make houses affordable yes we need to have a strong supply of houses but it is also about quality and it is also about choice. I visited a special housing area development in Three Kings which is in Mount Roskill. What I saw there was this really nice building coming up with lots of houses in there. There was a real community feeling. There was a lot of choice. We do not want to see house after house that look like clones of each other. We want to give first-home buyers the choice. There should be choice there should be quality and they should of course be affordable. We know that it is about improving the supply of houses and that is why we have a wide programme under way which includes freeing up Crown land which as I have already mentioned has special housing areas. We are also constraining building material costs and then we have the KiwiSaver HomeStart package which helps people get into their first home. That will help 90000 people get into their first home.The other thing is the Resource Management Act reform that is coming before the House. If the member is really serious about making houses affordable I urge the member to go and talk to his caucus colleagues to support the Resource Management Act reform because that will definitely reduce complexities and cost. That will definitely improve affordability of houses. If the member is serious about it I urge the member to talk to his caucus colleagues to come and support Resource Management Act reform.Yes there is a $1 billion infrastructure fund. We know that housing development needs to be supported by infrastructure. I was in Hamilton a few days ago. The mayor there was really looking forward to the process. We know the applications are closing at the end of this month. I would like to see the same thing happening in Auckland as well. Supply of houses is one side. There is another thing that we need to do to help people get into their first homes. That is people need to have a reliable source of income because they have to pay their instalments their mortgage. For that they need jobs. Under the National Government in the past 3 years we have created 250000 new jobs. The forecast is that there will be 150000 new jobs by 2021. The other thing is that if you have employment now and then casual or temporary that does not help. You need to have a consistent source of income to pay your instalments. If you look at people who are in paid employment 90 percent of them are in long-term permanent employment under this National Government. This is a very important aspect because this gives the confidence to people to go out and commit because buying a house is not a simple thing. It can be a 15-year or 20-year kind of commitment.As I said this bill has good intentions but it will not deliver what it intends to. This National Government is already running a very comprehensive housing plan and we are already starting to see results from our comprehensive housing plan so I do not support this bill.