Woods MeganDr EMILY HENDERSON (Labour—Whangārei): My question is to the housing Minister. I'm really intrigued by statements that the Minister's made about the way in which the Housing Acceleration Fund is going to enable the unlocking of up to maybe 8000 homes and I wondered whether she could talk to us about why there is value in this targeted approach that we're taking—as opposed to the more generalised approach that other parties put forward—to housing development.Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Housing): I'll start with the question that was just posed by my colleague Dr Emily Henderson around the Infrastructure Acceleration Fund and the value that we're seeing from this and why we can say that very targeted approaches like this and working with communities are much better than blanket funding that you say you're going to give per house for example. For example in Ōtaki we're actually seeing—I think it's Ōtaki that we're seeing—some of the houses it's as low as $8000 to $9000 as the contribution that needs to go in to enable the infrastructure for those homes. This differs across the country. Taking a much more simplistic one-size-fits-all and just saying you'll give money in an untargeted way to councils for each house built doesn't allow you to get the economies of scale that you get when actually you're enabling a whole community and you're doing area-wide solutions with infrastructure because that can be leveraged across multiple properties.In terms of the other questions that we've had we had a question around how many of those 60 applications for the Affordable Housing Fund have been funded. Applications closed last week so that's still at the appraisal stage. So they're working through but are very pleased to see a very strong number of applications coming through in that round. And they'll be obviously notified in due course as they work themselves through a robust appraisal stage figuring out the difference that we can make in many of our towns and communities and cities with that funding.One of the questions was also how can we be sure that we're not just simply paying above the odds in terms of our insulation and heat pump insulation projects—the fact that we are going in and we're making sure that our public houses are warm safe dry places for people to live. In terms of the procurement process this was of course done through a competitive panel process. We are doing it at bulk so actually we are able to get some of the economies of scale across this because we're giving secure pipelines of work to providers. I know visiting a number of our insulation providers around the country—I know certainly in Christchurch Community Energy Action have been in the position because of the Warmer Kiwi Homes programme of taking on apprentices in this area and training young people in this. So I think we're seeing long and good pipelines of work leading to benefits way beyond just us having warmer drier homes which actually I think is a pretty good benefit anyway.Mr Bishop asked about when the bill—I believe it is extremely imminent if not already there. So it is on its way. He asked about some technical amendments that he has in a bill that's been launched and I'm sorry Mr Bishop I haven't read your bill. It hasn't been drawn so I wouldn't know what's in your bill so I couldn't comment on that.