Potaka TamaHon TAMA POTAKA (Associate Minister of Housing): Madam Chair thank you. And thank you for the questions about Māori housing which I will take a little bit of time to respond to. Certainly the challenges that Māori have had in housing are well documented whether or not it's ownership or rental or other challenges such as the large number of Māori in State housing—public housing—in either Kāinga Ora homes community housing provider homes or emergency housing. I think people know that some of the stats particularly with emergency housing are very concerning. In some locations over 70 percent of those residents of emergency housing arrangements are Māori such as in Rotorua and near to Hamilton.The Whai Kāinga Whai Oranga strategy documents the tremendous aspiration to have more homes for Māori but also by Māori for Māori" approaches to building homes. There is certainly some evidence of excellent success and exemplary success in the Whai Kāinga Whai Oranga programme particularly with Toitū Tairāwhiti Ka Uruora and other providers but there are also some opportunities however for improvement for value for money and to make sure that the homes that are being built are not only affordable at the end point but also affordable through the construction methodology that is used. So there is a definite intent to look at how we can encourage and work more closely with those operating within the Whai Kāinga Whai Oranga strategy to ensure greater efficiency and expeditious delivery of housing.I think there was a question in relation to Cyclone Gabrielle and then it merged into whether or not the rent-to-buy homes at Toitū Tairāwhiti were progressing according to the aspirations and the intent and I can represent to the committee that there is some significant build programme in front of Toitū Tairāwhiti. One thing I like about Toitū Tairāwhiti is that they engage with young people as well to get them involved as kaimahi as trainees and as I mentioned last week in this House some people who lost their jobs down at the timber mill in Gisborne were retrained to get into construction jobs. So that was a marvellous result for those people who were going to be laid off. Now they're in construction helping Toitū Tairāwhiti build homes. Toitū was actually involved in also building separate cabins and homes for those that suffered through the Cyclone Gabrielle process and those North Island weather events and also raising the existing homes not just cabins to accommodate any further flooding in the future.There were a couple of questions in relation to home repairs and the programme of home repairs which has been ongoing through Te Puni Kōkiri and the overall Whai Kāinga Whai Oranga programme. I can reflect that that mahi has actually resulted in some really good outcomes for people living in homes that have had a few challenges getting them back up to scratch and up to speed and can come back with specifics on numbers for both that and the question around Te Pouahi up in Te Taitokerau which is one of the iwi housing prototypes which has just got started and it started a little bit later than the other three housing prototypes. But it's on its way and it's starting to get homes built for needy Māori and needy New Zealanders. Kia ora tātou."