Faafoi KrisHon KRIS FAAFOI (Associate Minister of Housing (Public Housing)): I thought I'd spectate for some time but given that contribution I think it's only fair that we respond almost instantly. I know the Ministers in the chair are not meant to ask questions of members who are making contributions but I might just to ask Mr O'Connor: where was his concern around some of these issues when his party was in Government? If we're going to talk about whose experts you're going to trust then we asked the Prime Minister's Chief Science Adviser Sir Peter Gluckman to look into the issue; not someone that we appointed but someone who is independent and looked at the issue and used science as a basis—funny that—and used evidence as a basis to look into this issue.What I find ever so slightly galling—that we are being asked questions of the type that Mr O'Connor is asking—is that his party used even as his own leader has said dud advice". He said it in June 2018. Simon Bridges said that his party had got dud advice from officials around the methamphetamine levels which were safe in these houses to base its entire attitude towards Housing New Zealand tenants and whether they were fit or not to maintain their tenancies. As I say on the dud advice that the previous Government relied on they evicted 800 tenants. So even Mr O'Connor's leader said the dud advice was dud advice but then again because we've found that the Leader of the Opposition barks at every car going about three months after he said "Well it might have been dud advice but you shouldn't be compensating meth cooks." when this Government wasn't. So the previous Government at every opportunity has been desperate to try and make sure it can turn around the truth of the fact that they relied on dud advice—and probably ignored solid advice when they were in Government—to turf 800 of the most vulnerable tenants in our country out of their properties.So we have gone on to a journey to make sure that we can have sound solid science-based standards to make sure not just that that level of methamphetamine contamination is known to tenants but that there's also some certainty for landlords about what is safe and what is not safe. So they can sit over that side of the Chamber and point fingers and claim that meth cooks are being compensated when they know that's a lie—they know that's a lie—but what we know on this side is that this is another one of the previous Government's messes that we are being forced to clean up. That is the absolute truth. So they should hang their heads in shame about asking for some accountability when this is a mess that they created and which we are fixing and which we're happy to fix because we need to make sure that landlords and tenants have some certainty in this area.Mr O'Connor is a member that I very much respect but I think he has fallen for the old trick of being first into the Chamber and being first to have to make a contribution from notes that someone has written between 6 and 7.30 because all the points that he made lack credibility—if you only want to go back to the cold hard fact that the Prime Minister's science adviser Sir Peter Gluckman shot the science out of water that they relied on and which they used politically to evict 800 tenants out of their homes. I think they should hang their heads in shame for that—for the fact that they now ask for some accountability for the fact that that's what they relied on.So what this Part 2 does is it puts in train the journey to make sure we know what the contaminants are what the levels are and what the rights of the tenants or the rights of the landlords are. To be perfectly honest it was a mess that we inherited. So I would love to hear another contribution from the other side of the Chamber to talk about their shameful history in this area. I don't think I will but I impress upon the members on that side of the Chamber to relive this beautiful part of the history of the last National Government."