Collins Judith: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeCollins Judith: General Debate[Sitting date: 31 July 2013. Volume:692;Page:12121. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon JUDITH COLLINS (Minister of Justice):I moveThat the House take note of miscellaneous business . Desperate times call for desperate measures and of course there is nothing as desperate as the Labour Party in free fall. We had the Labour Party this weekend come out and decide that it is now going to compete for the 5 percent that New Zealand First has got—a party that has actually shown itself to be far more mature and better behaved in Parliament and elsewhere than David Shearer’s Labour Party led by Trevor Mallard.What have we heard from the Labour Party this week? We heard this whole new term today the new term of “second-hand houses”. What is that? Actually it is a house. It is a house Mr Parker it is a house—a second-hand house. It is what we live in actually. As soon as we do we live in it.What we are trying to address here is in fact an issue of not enough houses in Auckland in particular—that is not enough houses being built. We need 12000 new houses or apartments in Auckland and at the moment we are getting only a third of that.The Labour Party policy at one stage was to build 100000 houses. I am not quite sure where it thought it was going to get the builders to do that or where it would have the land because the Labour Party has opposed every reform to the Resource Management Act that we have put forward to free up land. Every single time those members are against it; you can ever be guaranteed only of that. What has their answer been? They had David Shearer on television this weekend. Well that was a strange event because normally they send Sue Moroney to go and represent the Labour Party policies and I cannot understand why they did not do that this time. It must be because she is a woman. It could not be for anything else.What does Labour’s policy actually mean? Well apart from the fact that it said that if you are a foreigner except for Australians—because we had to have the “Russel Norman clause” just to make sure that it kept Russel in the loop. If you are a foreigner but you are not Russel Norman or an Australian then of course you will have to turn up with your passport to prove that you should have a look through the homes these second-hand homes that you are looking at. The other bit of the policy which came out on Monday was how this was going to happen. Lawyers are going to guarantee that these purchasers of second-hand homes are going to live in them. Well that is going to be interesting. I mean they only had—Hon Tony Ryall: Who called them second-hand homes?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: Well actually David Parker said it was a second-hand home. I live in a second-hand home Mr Ryall lives in a second-hand home and Ms Parata lives in a second-hand home. We in this party live in second-hand homes. But if Labour members are that worried about second-hand homes why does Mr Shearer not give them some of his second-hand homes? He has got more than one—he has got several. In fact he is one of the people who would not be able to do what he does now. And what about poor Helen Clark? She has got five second-hand homes and she would have to sell them up too.This policy achieves absolutely nothing other than it does this: it scratches an itch and that itch is all about xenophobia. That is all it does. One-quarter of all Aucklanders were born in some place other than New Zealand. What that party over there did—that party that once used to be a Government—was descend down to the 5 percent lot. That is what it did. For Rajen Prasad the former Race Relations Commissioner to still be in that party is an utter disgrace. Then we have Raymond Huo who said he has got five houses—extra rental ones. Why does he not sell them? Of course I do not know whether he was actually born in New Zealand. Does that make him a foreigner? No. It is disgraceful what that party did to a quarter of all Aucklanders.The thing is: would it actually even work? Would it even work? The answer is no. What we need is freeing up the land supply. We also need people to be able to access capital. That party over there has now become the party of protectionism the party that does not want foreign capital. It does not want anybody with foreign money coming in. I heard on the radio or the television that apparently some foreign banks are lending to foreigners. Well it is a shame that most of our banks happen to be Australian. It is a good thing Russel is still able to stay in. But that is what we are dealing with. It is utter rubbish.We have got to free up the land supply we are reviewing the development contribution compliance cost and we have brought in a 6-month consenting limit. We have brought in all of these measures to free up the land supply not like that lot who are just xenophobes.