Potaka Tama; Woods MeganTAMA POTAKA (National—Hamilton West): Ngā mihi matakoakoa o te pō roa nei.[Pleasant greetings on this long night.]And I always acknowledge my brother in arms from Hamilton East Jamie Strange. Kia ora chiefs. The right to adequate housing is well articulated in a number of international rights documents: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights and of course the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. As a country we're failing to facilitate conditions where those rights can be fully expressed by all New Zealanders. Tragic.The housing system is broken particularly for the most vulnerable Kiwis. I can refer to all the stats that can move hearts and minds in this regard: over 3000 households in emergency housing arrangements and 25000 or so households whānau waiting for social housing—a lot of whom actually live in the Waikato and Hamilton West. Now various agencies continue to deliver results especially under programmes started by Nick Smith and others of our great National Party like the Land for Housing programme—kei te mihi.However my observations over years of being actually involved at the pounamu-face of housing in tribal and private enterprise are instructive. The numbers particularly with Māori and Pasifika and young people are absolutely disturbing. The appropriations for housing have led to some unusual results—unusual accountabilities. Now Ihumātao in South Auckland is a great example of that. A significant protest and $30 million appropriated ultimately for the Land for Housing programme and since then—over two years ago—we have not heard of or seen any major planning to take place to actually deliver housing.So one thing that I want to find out a bit more about tonight is: when do we expect housing being actually (ā) planned at Ihumātao and (ē) built there to help address the broken housing system that we all see?Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Housing): I'm very happy to be joined tonight by two of the fantastic housing team in Willie Jackson and Marama Davidson and we will share some of the responses to questions that are here.But it was refreshing to hear a member from the National Party acknowledge the housing crisis we have and ask to talk about the statistics that led to this. I'd just like to throw some out here for this debate that we're going to have on Estimates and one of those is that one-in-seven of the public houses that we have in New Zealand have been built by our Government since 2017. An extraordinary statistic when we consider that we have been building State houses in this country since the first Labour Government in the 1930s.I think this speaks to the fact that there has been a deficit of commitment in certainly the decade preceding our Government coming to power. I am proud to say that since we've come into Government 11830 public housing places have been added to the stock. I'll put that against the 1500 fewer houses across both community housing providers and Housing New Zealand that the National Party finished up Government in 2017 with. They came into Government in 2008 and there were 1500 fewer when they went out of Government in 2017. They did not add public housing. It wasn't just the loss of those 1500 houses; it was the failure to build or add to the stock for nearly a decade that is the cause of our housing crisis that we are facing today.But we are seeing the green shoots of change. We are seeing that we are finally repairing the damage of a decade of extracting dividend from Housing New Zealand—$500000000 by the National Party—rather than building houses for the most vulnerable New Zealanders. We are a Government that has turned that around. We are starting to see the green shoots of change and I'm incredibly proud of our sector and what they are achieving and what we are achieving together. But I'll ask Minister Jackson to address some of the other questions.