SpeechTĀMATI COFFEY (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. For the benefit of the member that just resumed his seat Chris Penk who said that this Government has done nothing for the cyclone recovery I just need to point out—Chris Penk: Almost nothing.TĀMATI COFFEY: Oh almost nothing. Here we go. If almost nothing means an initial $250 million for Waka Kotahi and local councils to assess and fix the roads that must be almost nothing. If it's $74 million for affected farmers and growers to clean up and re-establish their businesses almost nothing; $75 million for businesses with immediate costs and clean ups to be distributed by local delivery partners for affected regions almost nothing; $5 million into mayoral relief funds up and down the coast; $65 million in civil defence payments and more. The member leaves but actually we've done a lot and I hope that he's gone and heard that.It has been a really tough time for those people up on the coast and we do need to focus on those issues. But unfortunately when we look around the Chamber there's a whole lot going on. I want to start my contribution with what the Hon Dr Megan Woods started with at the start of her contribution. She talked about a few films she framed it up talked about Star Wars and Back to the Future. I want to talk about Frozen. That's right it's a classic. And if you haven't seen it you need to see the movie. It really is awesome. Boy meets princess falls in love has a dance he turns out to be a psychopath but that's a whole different story. In amongst the winter wonderland that is Frozen you have talking reindeer singing snowmen but a line in a song which is a classic and that line is: The cold never bothered me anyway." What a song what a line: "The cold never bothered me anyway." What a lie as well.Actually the cold hurts. The cold makes you sick. The cold can send you to hospital. The cold can be very very harmful for the health of Kiwi families up and down Aotearoa which is why I'm super perplexed by the fact that the National Party have got a policy in place which is all about ensuring that landlords can get rid of their tenants without a brass razoo of a reason. No-reason evictions; just "You know what if I'm feeling like it I'm just gonna kick you out." And they don't have to give a reason. Kick them out on to those cold streets over the course of the winter that is detrimental to the health of Kiwi families which is why we on this side of the House stand united against that policy: making sure that landlords don't have the ability to be able to kick out Kiwi families into the streets for no apparent reason. It really does baffle me.It's part of the reason I'm so proud that on this side of the House we've done so much—so much—to be able to support those people who are inevitably renters. And we've seen so many of them especially in Māori families—so many families haven't got the privilege of homeownership so they have to rent; that's what they have to do. And a policy which enables landlords to be able to kick those renters out on to the street without a reason absolutely dazes me.On this side of the House we've been focused in our term in Parliament on building State homes so that we can get people off the streets that have found themselves homeless for whatever reason into safe warm accommodation. We've changed the conditions the regulations around houses to make sure that they're warm and they're safe for families to be able to live in. We have an unprecedented house-building programme going on all around the country and I know it because in my city in Rotorua we are seeing the houses going up and we are seeing people moving out of motels and into those safe warm dry houses. And what we've done is we've also purposely strengthened the position of renters in our communities. And making sure that actually landlords don't have the ability to be able to kick out tenants for no apparent reason because it's the right thing to do. The fact that the Opposition think that that's a good idea means that they're thinking I don't know maybe with their financial backers in their back pocket. We know that you know there's a lot of people—SPEAKER: Order! The member cannot make that kind of accusation in this House. He will stand withdraw and apologise.TĀMATI COFFEY: I withdraw and apologise. What I'm trying to say here is that it absolutely baffles me that the Opposition have come to this House and brought this terrible policy which is going to see thousands of Kiwi families up and down the country potentially evicted for no apparent reason. It's not right it's not fair and on this side of the House—the Labour Party—we stand united against that very very dumb policy.SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired. The time for this debate has expired also.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed."