Robertson Grant: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRobertson Grant: General Debate[Sitting date: 31 July 2013. Volume:692;Page:12127. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]GRANT ROBERTSON (Deputy Leader—Labour):I am sure we are all grateful for the lessons from Mr Heatley on being in Cabinet. He knows a lot about being in Cabinet and a lot about being out of Cabinet as well.There is a saying that many of us would have been told by our parents: “What a tangled web you weave when at first you set out to deceive”. What we have seen from this Prime Minister John Key in this Government is what we call the web of deceit. This is it here for the benefit of my colleagues on this placard—the web of deceit. Members of the House will notice that at the centre of the web of deceit is John Key because he has been at the centre of every single cover-up every single mistruth and every single lie by omission that has happened in this House around the security and intelligence agencies.Rt Hon Winston Peters: He’s donkey deep.GRANT ROBERTSON: Donkey deep he is indeed. That started right from the beginning of this term of Parliament when it comes to John Banks the member who could not remember visiting this gentleman Kim Dotcom and his giraffe. I would remember visiting Kim Dotcom and his giraffe in a helicopter if that had happened to me but this member John Banks could not remember that.Right beside him in our web of deceit is Ian Fletcher. Let us be absolutely clear. It took 10 days for the Prime Minister to acknowledge his role in appointing Ian Fletcher to the job of Director of the Government Communications Security Bureau.Then beside him in our web of deceit is Peter Dunne. He is at the centre of what is one of the most serious things that I have heard in this Parliament—that is the spying and intrusion upon a journalist who works in this building.The material that was tabled in the House today is very instructive. It is very instructive. What that material says is that what was being sought were calls to and from not only Andrea Vance’s parliamentary extension but also her mobile phone and her landline—her mobile phone her parliamentary extension and her landline. The Prime Minister stood up here in this House today and said that everybody would have expected the terms of reference of this inquiry to be understood. Well what Mr Key has to answer is how it is that his inquiry—the Henry inquiry—was asking for Andrea Vance’s mobile phone and personal landline calls as well as calls from her parliamentary extension as if that was not bad enough.But it is the role of the Prime Minister and the role of his chief of staff WayneEagleson that is clearly part of the web of deceit that has been woven by this Prime Minister. WayneEagleson is the person who intervened to make sure that phone records swipe-card records and emails were released. The Parliamentary Service said no when the Henry inquiry asked for that—twice. It was WayneEagleson’s intervention as the Prime Minister’s chief of staff. We are told that if we are talking to WayneEagleson we are talking to John Key. He is the person who intervened and said that those records should be released. It is John Key who is responsible for this inquiry. It is John Key who is responsible for a massive breach of trust with the press gallery in this building and with parliamentarians. John Key has no right to be ordering that emails phone records or mobile phone records of journalists or parliamentarians be released but that is what he has done.This is just a continuation of this Government’s record of riding roughshod over the democratic process. Be it through the teapot tapes and bringing the police into the media outlets and the journalists; whether it is the casino bill which rode roughshod over good process and where the Prime Minister intervened; whether it is the protest-at-sea law where the Government says that you cannot protest within 500 metres of a boat; orwhether it is the Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment Bill which plainly extends the powers of the Government Communications Security Bureau to go well beyond where they are now to infringe on the privacy of New Zealanders this Government has no respect for democracy.This Government is not acting in the way that New Zealanders would expect or that New Zealanders would want—that is a Government that looks after its citizens. John Key needs to hear the lesson. This country is not some company that he gets to play and trade around with; it is a democratic country where the rights and the rule of law count. This Prime Minister does not respect those—he should go.