Henare Tau: General Debate 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Henare Tau: General Debate 
[Sitting date: 21 March 2012. Volume:678;Page:1160. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon TAU HENARE (National) 
: 
 I was waiting for a I suppose better speech from Grant Robertson but all he did— 
Hon Member 
: No you weren’t. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: I was. All we heard was him gloating—gloating in the fact that the Opposition has scored a goal. After 3½ years all members opposite had to do was to get up and say what Labour proposes to do in the next couple of years. But what did we hear from Grant Robertson? What did we hear? A horrible attack on a person who has spent nearly 20 years in this place. So what I want to do today is hit back to them—hit back on these people. I want to mention a few names. The Hon Dover Samuels—sacked as Minister of Maori Affairs but never given his job back by Helen Clark. No evidence of criminal behaviour was found but he was not given his job back. In fact what he got was to be the Minister of State whatever that is. Ruth Dyson—drunk in charge of a vehicle. [ 
Interruption 
] Oh she was not? 
Hon Member 
: She wasn’t. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Oh well I do not know. Phillida Bunkle—yep I remember Phillida Bunkle—and Marian Hobbs. Harry Duynhoven— 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: When are you getting to me Tau? What about me? 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Ah you are coming. It is here—it is here. Harry Duynhoven had his ministerial powers suspended after inadvertently breaking the electoral law by renewing his Dutch citizenship. Lianne Dalziel was fired because she lied. John Tamihere—he resigned his portfolios because there were reports that he accepted $195000 from Waipareira Trust. 
Hon Annette King 
: Your friend. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Oh absolutely. He was my lawyer. Here is the thing: he told voters that he was not going to accept any payout but he did. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: If you’re guilty get John. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: I am getting to you Mr Mallard. I am getting to you. David Benson-Pope— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! Referring to “you” is referring to the Speaker and I hope you are not getting to the Speaker. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Yep OK we know. Taito Phillip Field—we know what happened to him. His mates tried to cover up for him and then they distanced themselves. They were members of the Labour Party. 
Michael Woodhouse 
: Remember what he was guilty of? Working hard for his constituents. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Working hard for his constituents in Thailand. David Parker—he resigned as Attorney-General and transport energy and climate change Minister. 
Then there was my good friend Winston Peters. He stood aside from his foreign affairs racing and associate senior citizens portfolios outside— 
Le’aufa’amulia 
 Asenati Lole-Taylor 
: What about Pansy Wong? 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: Oh yeah but I am talking about their side. See I am talking about their side because they did not have to get up and gloat. They did not have to get up and gloat but they did. 
And then we come to Trevor Mallard. Trevor Mallard—the violent one the one with the anger problem who I might add has just come back from England because after 30-odd years in this place he still does not know about parliamentary practice. So he went over. He travelled to England. He travelled to England to learn about parliamentary practice after nearly 30 years in the place. I would have thought— 
Hon Parekura Horomia 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I think this is quite alarming. He is accusing my colleague of going to England to learn about parliamentary practice but he is going to Uganda to learn about it. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! The member will sit down. [ 
Interruption 
] Order! I am on my feet. I guess the score is about one all at this stage in terms of spurious points of order but I do not want the score to be raised by anyone in the House. That kind of point of order is totally out of order. 
Hon TAU HENARE 
: I am going to Uganda to teach them about parliamentary procedure—that is the difference. And I am going with a Labour member. Oh so what do we say about that? And also a Green member. The fact of the matter is—the fact of the matter is—that we should not gloat about the demise of anybody in this House because all we heard today was a pretty sad story about a person who has given his life for this place. He made an error. He stood up he copped it on the chin and he did what everybody has been baying for. I just want to say before I close that I hope that it does not happen to anybody else in this Chamber.