Wall LouisaLOUISA WALL (Labour—Manurewa): Malo e lelei Mr Chair. Thank you very much for this opportunity to contribute to what has been a robust debate. I am particularly supportive of proposed Part 7 which has been introduced in an amendment by my colleague Metiria Turei. What she hopes to amend is section 40 of the Housing Corporation Act which is Distribution of profits". It is interesting when you read the Housing Corporation Act 1974 because it is all about paying money into a Crown account. How much money have we paid into the Crown account? Well in 2014 we paid $108 million into the Crown account on 8 September 2015 we paid $118 million into the Crown account and in fact we forecast in this year's Budget to put in $38 million this year and $54 million next year. Based on that in answer to my colleague Kelvin Davis' question: $126 million Kelvin. That is over 2200 of your 100 square metre properties and over 1500 of your 200 square metre properties that we could have built in the North. This amendment is actually really relevant when you look at those figures because we could have added to the housing stock over 2000 properties which would have housed those most in need.I want to particularly look at the functions of the Housing New Zealand Corporation. My colleague Adrian Rurawhe talked about section 18(2)(a) of the Housing Corporation Act which is about "providing rental housing principally for those who need it most" but I want to talk about subsection (2)(b) which is about "providing appropriate accommodation … for community organisations … that provide residential support services for people with special needs):". The reason I want to highlight that is that I was fortunate enough to participate in two sessions of the homelessness inquiry—and I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate my colleague Phil Twyford my colleague Marama Davidson and also my colleague Marama Fox on the way that they conducted that homelessness inquiry.What I would like to bring to the table is the unmet need that will be met by the money that will be reinvested into one of the functions of the Housing New Zealand Corporation—the communities that will benefit most from this particular amendment. I particularly want to highlight from Monday's hearing here in Wellington the submission by Ara Taiohi. It was given by Anya Satyanand and Sandra Dickson and it focused specifically on the exclusion of LGBTI youth and LGBTI homelessness. I also want to acknowledge that another member of that submission group was Kassie Hartendorp who works for Evolve. Where we got to in terms of their representation of LGBTI youth is that they are already a marginalised group. We have an already marginalised group—because they do not have the family structures available—living on the streets or relying on as Sandra said people like herself who are part of the community allowing these young people to sleep on their couches.One of the solutions that was proposed in the submission hearing on Monday was that maybe we should create a hostel that would be funded by Housing New Zealand and serviced by LGBTI groups for LGBTI groups. That is a huge unmet need in our society. That would be a tangible investment by this Government based on this proposal by my colleague Metiria Turei.I want to now quickly reference the 22 August hearing at Te Puea Marae and particularly want to highlight the submission by Danielle Bergin who works for the Island Child Charitable Trust. One of the things she said that struck me most was that of the last six families she had had five of them had newborn babies. She provides a service that aims to help up to 35 families a year but because of restricted funding it could help only 15. It brings in a context where young women are provided with the support to know how to parent and they are given an opportunity to create a loving bond with that child. This again highlights a whole lot of unmet need that this reinvestment by not putting it into the Crown accounts can contribute to. Kia ora."