Henare PeeniPEENI HENARE (Labour—Tāmaki Makaurau): Tēnā koe e Te Māngai o Te Whare. I want to take one of the phrases by Dr Martin Luther King who said that too often when Governments are confronted with significant issues in their communities they suffer from paralysis by over-analysis.We keep hearing from this Government about data—making sure we are inputting the right data. I heard the Minister who spoke earlier on in the debate today suggest that this Government wants to find the correct data so that the communities that most need assistance from this Government actually get it. Here is the data she is looking for: drive down Surrey Street in Manurewa and find families living in their cars; drive down John Walker Drive in Manurewa and find families living in their cars. Offer an accommodation supplement to those families—the families that need the assistance.It seems to be a case of amnesia by this Government. Not long ago—in fact almost a year ago—was the anniversary of the great work that Te Puea Marae did with the whānau in Tāmaki-makau-rau. Indeed that goodwill spread right across the country. Whānau from the regions were coming to Tāmaki-makau-rau to go to Te Puea Marae to seek the assistance that this Government was not giving them.We see a continuation of this. We see a long winter of poverty; not the kind of poverty that was traditionally thought of in New Zealand—We are still not doing too badly." Maybe they had to cut a few corners here and there to get by. It is a different kind of poverty. Those families that are living on Surrey Street in Manurewa in their cars and those families that are living on John Walker Drive in their cars—I can tell you they are working families. They are working families. They are mums and dads who are working hard trying to make life better for themselves and their families.I can tell you from my experience of the people who are coming through the offices in Tāmaki-makau-rau those hard-working families will not be any better off for the measurements proposed by this Government in the recent Budget. Government members can say all the numbers they want. They can talk about the accommodation supplements until they are black and blue in the face. I say to the House that accommodation supplements are not available to those families living in those cars. That is a serious problem. It is a serious problem because this Government has chosen to ignore them—ignore them.I mentioned earlier that amnesia has set in in this Government. It has forgotten that the people out there are actually struggling. The Government thinks that throwing numbers around in the Budget as announced last week will actually make the lot of our people better—homes being built in Tāmaki-makau-rau.Homelessness and housing still remain the No. 1 issue that comes through my office. I cannot say to those people: "Live on a false promise. Here put a false promise over your head and hope that it provides accommodation for you and your family." I cannot say to them: "Here is a consent form that has been approved by this Government and this council. Put this over your head and encourage yourself and your family to live underneath it."This Government is suffering from paralysis by over-analysis because if Government members were actually out there in the communities they would see the true issues facing our people in Tāmaki-makau-rau. Tāmaki-makau-rau is our biggest city—another city that because of the lack of action from this Government is actually paralysed. I say "paralysed" because people are sitting in their cars. Work productivity is down. Infrastructure is failing. People cannot travel across Tāmaki-makau-rau.It is often said that in the Māori electorates it is always difficult to travel. I think of my colleagues on this side of the House. Rino Tirikatene has to cover the entire South Island and part of Pōneke. It takes me 3½ hours to drive through several suburbs in Tāmaki-makau-rau. Would I wait for a bus? No because the public transport system is inadequate and unreliable due to a lack of funding and due to a lack of investment from this Government.We need a change and in September this year—23 September—that change is going to come. I encourage all of the whānau out there to have a good hard look at the numbers in the Budget presented by this Government to see exactly whether or not there is something for them. I can promise them that in September there will be."