Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): Tēnā koe Mr Speaker. Huri noa ki tēnei Whare tēnā tātou katoa. Today is my first day back in the House after the adjournment. I stayed in Auckland yesterday for my appearance on the Native Affairs live panel last night shot at Te Puea Marae in Māngere. This is the marae that has been helping families into homes. I am sitting here listening to all of these speeches particularly from National benches and I wish that this House and the members in it were not so disconnected from the realities of New Zealanders and the hardships that families are facing at this very time. I have had to sit here and listen to members such as the honourable Minister Amy Adams saying that it is nasty negative and no-hope discussion when the real issues are brought to members' attention. I wish the Minister had come to the Native Affairs live panel last night and listened to the likes of the social service providers such as Hurimoana Dennis Darryl Evans and Ian Hutson of the Salvation Army of Māngere Budgeting Services and of Te Puea Marae who were absolutely the opposite of nasty negative and no hope. They were simply talking with calm with reason with insight and with wisdom about the years of work they have done at the front line and the realities that they and many other social service providers are facing—realities that happened and are happening to our country because of mismanagement by this Government. To listen in the House today in question time to our Prime Minister harp on about the record number of houses being built without mentioning the record figures of homelessness that we are now having to face is an absolute farce. Some of those people are working. Some of those families are in paid employment. I also had to listen to Minister Tolley talking about how being in employment is the solver of all the issues. Some of those people who are living in vans cramped in homes and squashed in garages are in paid employment. Nurses teachers and police are finding it hard to live in Auckland. That is OK—should we just say that Auckland is not for nurses Auckland is not for police and Auckland is not for teachers? Their salaries are not enough to keep up the pace of what houses—[Interruption] Yeah look at me like that. I do not mind. I will look at you straight back. Auckland should be for everybody. I have had to sit in this House at question time today and listen to the Prime Minister refer to poverty as a great range of financial situations in this country." That is how our Prime Minister has defined poverty. The absolute minimum that we should expect no matter the great range of financial situations is that every tamariki every mokopuna every whānau and every person should have a warm safe affordable and secure home to live in. If we do not start there then you are in denial—and that is how the Prime Minister and his Government have not answered all the questions today and many before. Every time they are caught out every time they are having to face and confront what their Government has failed in they try to blame it on someone else or they will talk about something else or they will talk about something else from the past. They cannot answer directly and confront and face exactly what is happening. This is why they did not want to support the inquiry into homelessness. Labour the Greens and the Māori Party are not afraid to confront the truth and are working together across the country to face the issues. We are not afraid of being accountable. I have had to sit here today and I wish the members in this House were not so disconnected from what is happening to ordinary people who are not even as angry as I am. They are calm. They are doing the best they can. They are remaining and struggling and doing the best that they can. I wish all of us were accountable. Thank you."