Coleman Jonathan: Urgent Debates — SIS—Report on Release of InformationText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeColeman Jonathan: Urgent Debates — SIS—Report on Release of Information[Sitting date: 25 November 2014. Volume:702;Page:776. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN (Minister of Health):What we have just heard from the Greens is a totally fictional narrative on the report that has been released today. It was a total series of smears on upright and honest public servants and on frankly the most honest Prime Minister we have ever had in this country. I think it is disgusting that Metiria Turei would get up and smear the reputation of Rebecca Kitteridge a public servant who has given great service to successive Governments—served under the Labour Government as Secretary of the Cabinet served under this Government and continues to serve. I just think frankly that it is behaviour that is beneath the dignity of this House when the co-leader of the Greens comes in and makes statements like that.What has been clear in this report is that actually there was no political collusion. All these things that the Greens are alleging did not happen. I will quote directly from paragraph 17 where the inspector-general says: “I have not found any political collusion by or direction of the NZSIS in its disclosure of information or any unauthorised disclosure of information by NZSIS staff as has been alleged. I did find that information was disclosed by a member of the staff of the PMO to Cameron Slater but that disclosure did not breach any obligations of confidentiality owed to the NZSIS on the part of that PMO staff member.” So there it is—not the greatest day ever for the SIS. But actually to try to smear the reputation of the Prime Minister is completely beneath what people expect of members of Parliament.The one thing though that has emerged today—and the member of Parliament has pretty much admitted it—is that the report which appeared at 6 o’clock on both channels last night was released early by Phil Goff. There is no question about it. He said in the House today that no one had a copy of the written report but by doing so he actually admitted that he had read that report and then he went and leaked it to Television One and TV3. You would think that surely Phil Goff would not have done that—surely not. But he is guilty. He has not refuted that claim today. I challenge him to get up and tell the House that he did not speak to journalists yesterday about this report because he knows he did.Why we know this is actually because Phil Goff has got form in this area. I would say this is about the fifth incident at a casual count of Phil Goff being party to privileged information that he has then gone and released. You will remember the “gone by lunchtime” episode. Phil Goff was in there with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials. What did he do? He leaked privileged information. What did we have more recently? We had a coroner’s report that Phil Goff went and leaked to the media. It was the report into the death of a soldier in Afghanistan. It was under a suppression order. The police looked into it. Phil Goff is on a police warning. And now with this most serious breach Phil Goff could actually face a year in prison and actually I think that might teach him a thing or two. And then there was the instance where a former staffer from Phil Goff’s office when he was Leader of the Opposition went off to work at the State Services Commission. Suddenly miraculously a copy of a Cabinet paper emerged into Phil Goff’s hands and he was quoting from it in Parliament but then it emerged that his own staffer had stolen that paper.The common thread through this is Phil Goff. This was back in the days when Phil Goff really cared—back in the days when he was still dyeing his hair when he was still doing the John Travolta walk. But now he has given up on it. He has decided that he is just going to cause mayhem. Last night on Andrew Little’s biggest day of his parliamentary career when he was revealing his line-up Phil Goff decided that he would wipe the new leader off the front page and the leading article of the news by going and leaking this report. He knew exactly what he was doing. Now he is going to form the nexus of grumpy former leaders sitting there at about Nos 14 15 16 and 17—David Cunliffe David Shearer Phil Goff—who are going to wreck everything. Phil Goff has no moral backbone. He knows he has leaked this. He is up next. I challenge him to get up and say: “I did not speak to a journalist yesterday.” And then I challenge him to say it outside the House. This is serious for Phil Goff. We are talking a year in prison for Phil Goff and actually that might not be a bad idea. Thank you.