Kanongata'a-Suisuiki AnahilaANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI (Labour): Six thousand State houses were sold under National. If you do the maths—if you do the maths—he wants a number so I'll give him numbers. Nine years of National: 6000 State houses sold. That's 365 days a year. You do the maths: 6000 divided by 9; then you divide that by 365—1.82 houses a day State housing that was sold by that Government sold by the National Party. One—almost two—State house a day was sold by that Government. I want to actually give another set of numbers: 2206 State houses have been built by this Government. Yesterday was the 82nd anniversary of the first State house built by a Labour Government by the Hon Joseph Savage. My mother was born in 1936. She was a year old when they built the first State house at 12 Fife Lane.The reason why I go to numbers is because what we are proposing is a solution to solve what National have left us which is a mess—to solve the mess that National has left us. Let's do the maths—let's do the maths—82 years ago the first State house was built; in the two years that this coalition Government has been in place we have built 2203 State houses. What does that work out to? That works out to almost 2½ State houses a day that we've built since we've come into Government. What did National build? Well they sold 6000 State houses. How many State houses did they actually build in the nine years? It was 338. In nine years National built only 338 State houses—338 that is.Hon Clare Curran: Shame!ANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI: Shame! Shame on them.If they want numbers we'll give them numbers: 800 families were affected by the P decisions that that side of the House made—a sniff of P and what they did was dislocate 800 families. I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge Ngāti Hinerangi who were here earlier this afternoon. It's over a hundred years or so that they have been fighting the fight to get to this House to talk about what rightfully should be theirs and we are giving it to them in fractions. Last nine years of the National Government 800—800—families were affected dislocated became homeless. I don't know how many years that will affect them and there is no settlement for that to happen for those 800 families to receive some sort of apology from that side of the House. That's what we call no-heart leadership—no National no plans.I want to take this opportunity. I'm wearing a camellia in my right ear. This is from a place not far from here. It's 126 years since women got the vote here in this country and I want to acknowledge all those women that have fought the good battle for us to be here and we are now at our third woman Prime Minister. I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the leadership of the Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern in terms of being the Prime Minister for this time for this era—this era when we are building warm dry homes.Let me come back to Kāinga Ora. I want to acknowledge the Minister the Hon Phil Twyford in terms of Kāinga Ora. The naming of this bill actually is the principal beginning—that door that opens up on how we are doing things differently. Kāinga Ora when I read it as a Tongan I read it as thinking about everybody who lives in the House outside the House and in this motu. Kāinga Ora is about that.I want to quote the Hon Phil Twyford from the speech he gave earlier this afternoon because I think it describes what this is—it's about a vision. It is about a vision on how we're going forward not just for the next 30 years but beyond that. I quote: For the first time we will have a strategic direction … an overarching plan for housing [in New Zealand] and set out expectations and priorities for the whole sector from local authorities to community housing providers the private sector Kāinga Ora itself and iwi." If that is the beginning the vision of this bill then everything else that falls under it comes in with a good spirit and a good heart.I want to talk about what this bill will actually deliver. The bill delivers on the Government's new approach to State housing. I've said before we've built over 2000 but we're building more houses and I'll come back and maybe next year know more numbers on what we've been building in warm housing. So what this bill will do is legislate for Housing New Zealand to aim to sustain tenancies provide warm houses dry housing treat tenants with respect and social objectives.There is a word that we use in this House all the time. People in this House use the word "vulnerable" all the time. There is one thing that we share with every other human being on this planet and that is that when we lay our head down to sleep at night when we close our eyes we are all vulnerable.But for members of this House we know that we'll wake up tomorrow that we've slept in a warm dry room that's in a warm dry home. Many in the nine years of National couldn't say that because where I live—I live in Manurewa in South Auckland—and it was becoming in the nine years of National normal to lay your head to rest on the pavement of the footpath of shopping centres outside takeaways. That was what National has left them. What Kāinga Ora will do is work in partnership with everybody in the sector to build something that every New Zealander when they go to sleep at night will not be vulnerable because we are building warm dry homes.Chris Bishop: How's homelessness going for you?ANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI: Mr Speaker—I can't hear what that person is saying but what I want to—Chris Bishop: Tell us about the motels.ANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI: —know is—I heard the member Chris Bishop saying "Tell us about motels"—motels that were created by their Government motels that they were having people—those were their policies. I don't know why they're pointing fingers at us when actually that's their legacy that they left. The legacy that they left was they had no plans. I've said many times that people think the National Party can add but they can't. Why? Let me quantify that statement. If you're selling State houses—6000 State houses—and if you're not helping other community providers build houses people are being born in this country people are coming into this country people are living longer; what does that add up to? It adds up to the population actually over—the National Party didn't have a plan for the population growth for poorer New Zealanders who couldn't afford to do that. So I just want to do that. They could not do maths because they were thinking with their pockets and not their hearts.Anyway let me get back to Kāinga Ora. I am moved to hear the story of Mohi that talks about the collective group that helped him into a home in Hamilton. I am moved by that story and that is the sort of story New Zealanders want to tell—that when they're down someone there is able to help them. When they're down and they're sleeping on the streets and they feel like nobody's there that's the role of Government: to provide warm dry homes for its population. If you can't do that then I actually don't know what that is.I want to end my speech today by acknowledging all the women who are standing in the local elections. The voting papers are out today. I want to acknowledge the legacy: that 126 years that women have had the vote in New Zealand. I went to urge every woman out there to get out there and support every other woman that's standing and vote—vote because that was fought for 126 years ago today. On that note I commend this excellent excellent bill to the House. Mālō."