Peters Winston: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers Questions to Members 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Peters Winston: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers Questions to Members 
[Sitting date: 17 October 2012. Volume:684;Page:5880. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
2. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
 to the  
Minister responsible for the GCSB 
: Specifically have there been staff issues associated with the Government Communications Security Bureau and Dotcom affair brought to his attention by the Government Communications Security Bureau or members of the New Zealand Police in which such staff members no longer work in their previous capacity for the Government Communications Security Bureau or any government agency; if so what were the circumstances? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Minister responsible for the GCSB) 
: 
 The director of the Government Communications Security Bureau has raised some staff issues with me. As the member will be aware the director made a public statement last week which advised that an investigation had commenced within the bureau as to whether there had been unauthorised disclosure of information and if so its source. I do not believe that it is appropriate for me to make further comment about staff matters which are clearly the responsibility of the director. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Does the Prime Minister have any knowledge at all of disciplinary action being taken against an individual working for the Government Communications Security Bureau in respect of the Dotcom affair; if so why will he not tell the House when he was first informed of it? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: I am not in a position to discuss staffing matters; they are a matter for the director and best left with him. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I am not asking him to discuss staffing matters; I am asking him whether there was a discussion relating to staffing matters that came to his attention. That is a different question. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: I am prepared to let the member repeat his question but that was not what his question actually asked. In case I am in error I am happy for the member to repeat his question. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Does he have any knowledge at all of disciplinary action being taken against an individual working for the Government Communications Security Bureau in respect of the Dotcom affair; if so why will he not tell the House when he was first informed of it? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: I am not in a position to confirm whether disciplinary action has or has not been taken. I am advised by the director as he sees fit. But they are ongoing staffing matters and it would be inappropriate for me to comment further. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Is the Minister saying that he is not aware of a member of the Government Communications Security Bureau being specifically and particularly put on “gardening leave” in respect of the Kim Dotcom affair despite the name and role of that person being widely known around Wellington? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: What I am prepared to say is that any matters involving personnel at the Government Communications Security Bureau are a matter for the director. It would be inappropriate for me to publicly comment on those at this time. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: In another case can he assure the House that an officer of the New Zealand Police force with a record of 15 years’ service in the Diplomatic Protection Squad never spoke to him about Dotcom prior to 19 January 2012 the date the PM now finally admits he first learnt of Kim Dotcom? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: I have no recollection of any Diplomatic Protection Squad agent speaking to me about that. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Is he saying as Minister that a member of the Prime Minister’s protection squad with a record of 15 years’ service to Prime Ministers including himself never told him as Prime Minister of his intention to leave the Diplomatic Protection Squad to go to work for Kim Dotcom? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: The member is referring to a chap whose last name I do not know; his first name is Regan. He does not work for the Diplomatic Protection Squad; he works for—or he used to work for—the VIP Protection Squad in Auckland and no I was not aware that he went to work for Kim Dotcom.