Tirikatene Rino: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTirikatene Rino: General Debate[Sitting date: 11 May 2016. Volume:713;Page:10987. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]RINO TIRIKATENE (Labour—Te Tai Tonga): If we are talking about who needs to apologise the National Government needs to apologise for the disgraceful actions that it has inflicted upon Māori in the past. Who remembers Don Brash in Ōrewa? Who remembers that speech? Who remembers the hate that was whipped up from that dog whistle from that Government over that? We all remember it because this is the Government of smoke and mirrors. It is the Government of smoke and mirrors or as Oscar Kightley performs it they like to perform Jedi mind tricks. They like to distract and deflect and distract the population especially and the ringmaster is John Key.Well we know that those tricks are not working any more. He is under pressure and his powers are weakening and that is why the Government is under pressure today. Why have they been trying to say that Labour needs to apologise? We were merely seeking information as to what the true picture was in terms of overseas foreign speculators buying property in the New Zealand market. And what have we received? We have received absolute bogus data—bogus data from this Government. It is absolutely bogus. It is a mockery to mathematics—a mockery to mathematics. If anyone needs to apologise the National Government needs to apologise to the Egyptians the Babylonians and the Greeks for absolutely destroying mathematics with their appalling so-called analysis of foreign-buyers’ data. That is who they need to apologise to.How do we know—because the chief executive of Land Information New Zealand has even doubted the report himself. He is unsure of those figures. He says that you cannot trust this—you cannot trust these numbers. It is actually not very robust. So for this Government of smoke and mirrors and of Jedi mind tricks to try to say that “Oh yes this is our report and the numbers are all good and it was only 1600 foreign buyers.”—hello! Forty-five percent of the sales in Auckland were excluded because they were in businesses and trusts and the like so how can we actually get an accurate picture?This is the Government that likes to be very selective only on what it drip-feeds out and it tries to manipulate the population. As I said the game is up for John Key. His powers are weakening. His powers are weakening because middle New Zealanders are wising up. They are wising up; they know whom John Key and this Government serve. They know whom they are there for; they are there only for the top. They are there only for the wealthy. They are not there for middle New Zealand. They are not there for the battlers. They are not there for the everyday folk out there who are working hard who want to get their kids educated and who want to have a good health system when they get māuiui. They are not there for them. They have been running down all those very institutions that are the absolutely pillars of our just New Zealand society. That is what this Government of smoke and mirrors has done and it is an absolute shame.Let us go to the Panama Papers. You know a month ago I thought that Mossack Fonseca was a football player for FC Barcelona. How we have come a long way in one month—we have come a long way. What we have seen now is our reputation—our reputation internationally as Aotearoa—besmirched by the fact that we are labelled as a tax haven that we are harbouring funds. Who knows where they come from but our laws are permitting that. Our laws are welcoming the corruptness of the wealthy class from around the world. And the ringleader of all that and the chief sponsor of all of that is John Key and this Government. It is an absolute disgrace.It is a Government of smoke and mirrors. But the good people of Aotearoa are waking up to that and they are blowing the smoke away. We can see the pressure on the Government right now. That was evidenced by John Key getting kicked out of this House. Thank you.