Dean Jacqui: Supplementary Estimates — Imprest Supply DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDean Jacqui: Supplementary Estimates — Imprest Supply Debate[Sitting date: 24 June 2014. Volume:699;Page:18819. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JACQUI DEAN (National—Waitaki):Well that was a very enlightening contribution by the member who has just resumed his seat Phil Twyford. He was able to tell this House about Labour’s housing policy which is going to magic up houses into being. It has an aspirational target of 10000 houses a year over 10 years so it is going to build—it is going to magic up—100000 houses in New Zealand. Let us just think about that because magicking houses just by saying you are going to do it is not actually achieving the building of those houses. So the member who just resumed his speech says it is going to happen—Denis O’Rourke: Resumed his speech?JACQUI DEAN: —resumed his seat thank you—but he did not say how. I can tell the House why he did not say how and that is because he simply does not know.Hon Member: Hasn’t got a clue.JACQUI DEAN: He does not have a clue. It sounds good. It sounds like a great sound bite like all the rest of the hyperbole we are getting across the House from a more and more desperate Labour Opposition as it sees its support ebbing away across to the Greens New Zealand First and some other minor parties. The language is getting more and more heated and fanciful but you cannot simply magic up houses into being for people who need them.So that is why today I was very pleased to read that the Queenstown Lakes District Council has now become part of the housing accord legislation. That is a piece of work undertaken by the Hon Nick Smith that far from just magicking houses into being is making some pretty critical steps amongst many others into making houses happen. You see another thing that Labour does not quite understand is that although the Government might build social housing it is not the Government that is going to magic up those 100000 houses over the next 10 years. It is not the Government that is going to do that—no it is not. It is the developers those people who are prepared to take a stake in New Zealand’s future and provide houses. It is they who are going to be building those houses.Let us have a look at Queenstown and its region which have experienced very strong provincial growth. My colleague from Otago might be able to help me. Growth in the Otago region—is it around 4.5 percent?Hon Michael Woodhouse: Over.JACQUI DEAN: Over 4 percent. Growth is extremely strong in the Otago region. We are going to need houses in Queenstown as well as houses in Christchurch Auckland Wellington and the Bay of Plenty so it is very pleasing to see that what is actually going to make the houses get built is being put into place under the housing accord legislation. So what is going to be provided for in Queenstown is the fast tracking of the planning process. The member who has just resumed his seat is absolutely kidding himself if he discounts as he seems to that getting the planning process right and getting it done in a timely fashion is absolutely critical to the ability of developers to put their money where their mouth is and build houses for New Zealanders.The housing accord legislation also provides councils with consenting tools that will make those developments possible to happen. That is such good news for Queenstown. There is so much growth in the region that we need to anticipate that growth. That is something that Labour has always failed to do. “Oh woe is me!” those members said “We’re going to fix it.” Well when will they ever acknowledge that they were a large part of the problem because in the 9 years that they were in Government they absolutely ignored the growth in population in Auckland. So that member who has just resumed his seat has no credibility in this area.This is a good Budget. As part of the work this Government is doing is around affordable housing for New Zealanders it is a good Budget. Nick Smith is a good Minister and we are tackling this problem.