Eagle PaulPAUL EAGLE (Labour—Rongotai): Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. Look it's a pleasure to come to the House early to talk about one of my favourite topics and that's housing. Nothing gets me more excited than talking about housing. But before I just leap into that can I acknowledge our finance Minister the Hon Grant Robertson for a fantastic Budget known in my electorate as the  'Thank God for Labour you've arrived just in time' Budget".I say that because in the context of housing there are just so many issues. Only the other day I was reminiscing about the Service of Lament held out in Strathmore Park. When many of you fly out from the wonderful electorate of Rongotai and you leave my electorate and the city of Wellington to go to where you live what you may not notice is that on the left-hand side on the hill there is a whole lot of State housing. Isn't it interesting? Nothing's changed there for nine long years to the point where on the flat—as I've said in this House before—the previous Government sold off those valuable homes for those most in need to the wealthiest school in Wellington.Look I respect the children and the parents who send their children there. But what defies me most is that the housing for the most vulnerable for those most in need for those who really needed it went to those who could most afford it. That's outrageous. Just down the road there's a rugby field - sized plot of green land that I used to walk past. In fact I went and put up two hoardings in there. There was so much land there and I thought "I don't know who owns this. I don't know if it's the Housing New Zealand Corporation." but I thought it would make a great hoardings site. One of the things I did was put up my signs up there that said "Look vote for me"—and they did—"vote for this party" and they did because there was nothing else going on there.Luckily we've got a Labour Party that says we're going to build houses on this green site. I thought "Thank God" and no wonder as I said the good people of Rongotai are calling this the " 'Thank God for Labour' Budget" because there will be 6400 more State houses built in this country. I'm hoping—fingers crossed—that there will be some houses there. In fact I know that there are 12 being built there. That's good; that's a start. We need thousands more. I know as my good colleagues here tour the green of this country—they tell me stories that could replicate if not reminisce in the same way that I do about how after nine long years there's simply not the State houses there.Let's get on to emergency housing. Some of you will go up Taranaki Street there and you'll see a night shelter opposite Wellington High School there. You'll think "Jeepers. Why is there still a night shelter?" I remember talking to the Home of Compassion nuns—that's a local Catholic order. They said to me—you know we had a good chat about again the people who need housing the most. I said "What does success look like for emergency housing to you?" The sister said to me "I wouldn't be here." I said "That's exactly right." because you wouldn't need her or her organisation who have been in place for 130 years to be there any longer.This Government is saying that there'll be 1400 emergency houses in place and that no more children will need to sleep in cars. Because that's what's happening even in the capital city here. Some of you have even come up to me saying "Oh I was frightened when I walked through parts of your electorate and saw them sleeping here." They're everywhere. But these 1400 houses will go a long way to saying "Look this is unacceptable." whether it's in the capital city of Aotearoa New Zealand whether it's in the Wairarapa Auckland the East Coast—wherever. It's unacceptable in this day and age that we have a New Zealand that reflects that. I didn't grow up you didn't grow up in that—through you Mr Assistant Speaker; sorry. But what I am saying is that this is the " 'Thank God for Labour' Budget" because it fundamentally goes back to the heart where every New Zealander Kiwi deserves a roof over their head.This is the plan. I haven't even talked about the hundreds of other things in here—the great things that this Government is putting in place for housing. But I'll be back. I'll be back at some stage to talk about that stuff. I haven't talked about the 100000 new houses—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Adrian Rurawhe): I'm sorry to interrupt the member but it has come time for me to leave the Chair for the dinner break.Sitting suspended from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.PAUL EAGLE: As I have been saying thank God for Labour thank God for the Labour Budget—there we are."