Willis NicolaNICOLA WILLIS (National): Has there ever been a Government that has promised so much and delivered so little? Has there ever been a Government that makes itself look so good in the PR spin and so poor in reality? Has there ever been a Government that has announced so much and delivered so little? And that member from Hamilton Jamie Strange chose to talk about this Government's record in housing. So let's just talk about that shall we?Let's remember that these are the people who in 2017 promised New Zealanders they would solve what they said was a housing crisis. Well what's happened since then? We have seen the fastest increase in housing prices in history. We have seen average rents go up $100 a week. We have seen declining rates of homeownership such that the lowest proportion of New Zealanders are in their own home. We have seen a Government promise 100000 KiwiBuild homes—in fact it's KiwiBuild's birthday this week ladies and gentlemen. And this is the week when the Government was meant to be delivering the first 16000 KiwiBuild homes. So how are we tracking against that milestone? Well those people over there who say they're doing such a great job in housing have delivered the grand sum total of 923 KiwiBuild homes. And Jamie Strange thinks that's an achievement and got up to show off about it.We are now in a situation where those members opposite were lamenting the fact that the Government of the day was spending $90000 a day making sure that people didn't need to live in their cars putting them in motels. The Government said That's far too much. It's a disgrace." So how much is this Government now spending on emergency housing across this country? One million dollars a day. Hang your heads in shame. There are now more than 4000 families being forced to raise their children in motel rooms and campgrounds and Jamie Strange gets up and says "What an achievement." We are now in a situation where there are four times as many people—Jamie Strange: So what are you going to do?NICOLA WILLIS: Jamie you need to listen to this because—SPEAKER: Order! Order!NICOLA WILLIS: —I don't think you've been talking about it in caucus. We're now in a situation where there are more than four times as many New Zealanders in such desperate need of housing that they are classified as at risk by the Ministry of Social Development and are waiting for a State house and they are waiting now on average more than 200 days to be housed. And that's all happening under Labour. Thanks Labour! Jamie Strange thinks this is a great result. We're now in a situation where the Government who promised healthier homes has said to its own housing arm Kāinga Ora "Hey don't worry. The standards don't apply to you. We'll give you another two years." So that New Zealand's most vulnerable citizens living in our State homes are the least likely to be in a home that's insulated and warm. What a disgrace.And so what did they do to solve it? Well in November 2019 the Government's housing arm Kāinga Ora said "It's time we fixed the headlines. What are we going to do?" And did they come up with a plan for building more homes quickly at scale and pace? No no no they'd already tried that and failed. So what they did was sign a contract for $25000 a month to buy a few headlines. And this sneaky little contract where they get paid advertorial online on the OneRoof site—did they declare on the site that they were paying for it that actually taxpayers were paying for it? No no they did not disclose it in a clear breach of advertising standards guidelines. They decided to do the sneaky and when I asked Minister Woods about it she said that there was no agreement in place. Until a few weeks later when I proved it and she said it was a clerical error not to tell me that. This is the same Minister who came down to this House and said that she had proactively released all the information about the Government's housing policies when she had not and she had to apologise to this House for that. There is a pattern of behaviour.So what should this Government do? Talk to National. We have provided you an emergency response bill with urgent measures that would solve the housing crisis and if you don't believe that releasing that land is what's needed listen to your own officials Minister Woods who said in their last briefing to you: "Availability of suitable land remains our biggest challenge" —SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."