Faafoi Kris: Debate on Prime Minister’s StatementText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeFaafoi Kris: Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement[Sitting date: 10 February 2015. Volume:703;Page:1410. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]KRIS FAAFOI (Labour—Mana): Can I extend to you Mr Assistant Speaker and to all other members of Parliament a happy New Year and also to the officers of Parliament who look after us. I wish all my parliamentary colleagues varying degrees of success over the next 12 months.We have heard a lot about the Prime Minister. That party across the way trades very much on his brand. There is a lot to be said about a back story. The Prime Minister John Key’s back story is all about the State house boy who made good—went to university and went away to the US and made $50 million. It is a great back story. It has done him well and National has got a third term in Parliament. But there is a problem with that back story now because John Key—who was raised in a State house who had the benefit of a State house upbringing—wants to sell off 8000 State houses. So the very opportunity that the Prime Minister took for himself—the help of the State—he wants to take away from over 8000 families around this country. There is a difference of political ideology here and right now there is a stark difference. We did not hear a peep out of this Government about the wholesale sale of State houses before 20 September but as soon as we have a state of the nation address this year John Key says 8000 State homes are on the block. Do not forget this is a man who had an upbringing in a State house and the opportunity of a State house and he does not want the most struggling families in our country to have the same opportunities that he had—of a State house—because he wants to sell off those State homes. This is a Prime Minister who has forgotten where he has come from.I grew up in a State home too Prime Minister but when I get to this place I am going to fight for those families who need a State home not sell them off. I have not forgotten where I have come from. I have not made $50 million but I will fight for the State homes that those families who are in desperate need need right now—need right now. I heard Nick Smith a former housing Minister say that the problem is the supply of land. Well Mr Smith come to Porirua where you demolished 16 or 17 houses about 5 years ago and that land still stands empty. Your department has done zilch for the last 5 years to increase—that Minister’s department that Minister and this Government have done nothing over the last 6 years to replace those 17 homes that were taken away from that community. Where are the replacements? Where are the State homes that those families were living in? Where are those replacements? This is a Government that says: “Oh we can’t get our hands on land.” There have been plans for 22 new units for that land. Where is the Government? Is it building them? No. It has not done one single thing. Then in Hazard Grove and Esk Place—right in the heart of Cannons Creek where some of the lowest-paid people in this country live—it plans to demolish more homes. Is there any plan to replace those homes? Not one. It is going to sell that land. It will probably go to a developer who will make a tidy little income out of that.This is a Government that will sell off State homes and take away opportunity from those people who need it. It will sell that land off to developers and it does not care. I am not going to sit here and listen to Nick Smith or the Prime Minister say they are going to give opportunities to the most vulnerable Kiwis when they have done nothing to replace the homes—the 17 homes—that the Government made a decision to demolish and that it made a decision not to replace. This Government has done nothing for those families who need more homes and then it has its Housing New Zealand officials say: “Oh there’s no demand in Porirua East.” Well come spend a day at my office where we get a deluge of people. Two-thirds of the work that comes through my electorate office is Housing New Zealand work and this is a Government that has its officials say there is no demand in Porirua East just like there will be no demand in South Auckland.And you say Mr Young that you are connected to the communities. You guys are so out of touch when it comes to State housing. You can snigger Mr Young. You can snigger but that side of the House does not realise just how deep the hatred of your State house policy is because there are a lot of good people who have done good—just like that Prime Minister there—who do not like what you are doing. They live in their own homes but they got a start in a State home. They do not like what you are doing because the opportunity that they got and that some of the people across that side of the House got you are taking away from them and you should be ashamed of that.