Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): Fa'fetai mo le avanoa Mr Deputy Speaker. Thank you for the opportunity—and in recognition of this being Samoan Language Week. I just want to correct the previous speaker Mr Lotu-Iiga. We are not voting to support this Budget. I am very proud that we will be voting against the Budget. Here we are tonight spouting off almost like a laundry list what has been bought and spent and sold and traded in this Budget: who has put a few million dollars there for this; who has put a few million dollars there for that. The bigger thing that we all need to be talking about really is the value settings and how this Budget is going to make any real impact and make any real difference to the future because of the challenges we are facing today.This Government does not get to slash State housing sell off Crown land to wealthy developers and then finally start building a little bit again while celebrating. You do not get to pretend to celebrate that without being called out. It is election year; the Government has been in there for 9 years and finally Ooh we'd better start building a programme for building houses."—on land I might add that has been empty and neglected for years and years to the point where the local church community in Naenae set up an occupation. That is right. This Government has pushed our religious leaders into protesting. That is what this Government has done. They are fed up and they have occupied empty Crown land.In this Budget you do not get to lie down and let the speculators run riot in our communities to the point where in Manurewa—over 90 percent of the sales of homes in Manurewa go to investors—and to the point where the Clendon Work and Income office on any given day has a long line down the road of people lining up desperate because they cannot pay the rent and feed their whānau. You do not get to do all of that and then stand up in this House and read out a Budget that has no measures in it to curb speculation at all. You do not get to do that without being called out. You do not get to be at the forefront of a renting crisis. For example the principal at one of my local schools has told me that 60 percent of his roll is transient—that 60 percent of his roll is just moving through visiting.You do not get to be at the forefront of that renting crisis for families where you are making no improvement in the availability or the affordability of houses and then celebrate an accommodation supplement that is just literally feeding billions of dollars—billions of dollars are flowing from Government accounts—to landlords over the next few years while the families themselves are no better off. You do not get to do that—Hon Anne Tolley: You can't complain about a renting crisis and then go crook at landlords. Good God! Really; talk some sense.MARAMA DAVIDSON: Even the Government's own officials Minister—if the Minister would just hear this out—have confirmed that the accommodation supplement is at high risk of increasing rents. We have already seen online—we have already seen investors getting all excited about this accommodation supplement. They have been telling each other: "Woo look at this! We can hike the rents up. Look what the Government just did for us." You do not get to champion that and be at the forefront of the impact on things like 60 percent of school rolls being transient and celebrate that without being called out.The Greens in Government will initiate a progressive homeownership rent-to-own plan. We will build the thousands of houses that we need to make a real difference for the future one that is not going to support a 60 percent transient roll in schools in my community. The Greens in Government will have a strong State housing programme and will not slash State houses while in the meantime using emergency housing to hide families away in motels—get them out of the parked cars and off the streets so that in election year voters do not have to be confronted by them. Strong State public housing restricting rental rises having minimum 3-year tenancy terms for families to put down roots—those are just a few of the things that a Government with leadership for the future can actually do to make a real difference for the future of our New Zealanders. Thank you."