NICOLA WILLIS (National): I return to the line of questioning that I raised earlier because I think it's very important that the Minister provide assurances about the billions of dollars that have been allocated in this Budget for land acquisition. The concern I raised was a substantive one. It was: how can the Government be confident when it goes out to purchase large tracts of land for housing, multimillion-dollar plots of land, tens of millions of dollars being spent on land, that when it does that, it is adding net benefit for taxpayers? Because the alternative, in most of these scenarios, is that a private developer purchases that land, then builds housing on it. The record that New Zealanders are very well aware of, whether it's KiwiBuild or the failed State house bill targets, whether it's the slow build at Unitec, is that actually the Government isn't as good at building houses at scale and pace as the private sector is.