3. Immigration Energy and Resources and Environment Ministers—ConfidenceRt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) to the Prime MinisterImmigration Energy and Resources and Environment Ministers—ConfidenceMr SPEAKER: Question No. 3—Ron Mark on behalf of the Rt Hon Winston Peters.Hon Gerry Brownlee: Who's on holiday?Mr SPEAKER: Order! That is the sort of interjection that leads to gross disorder.3. RON MARK (Deputy Leader—NZ First) on behalf of Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) to the Prime Minister: Does he have confidence in all his Ministers; if so why?Hon BILL ENGLISH (Acting Prime Minister): Yes and particularly the Minister who just said that the leader of New Zealand First must be away on holiday.Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! I advised Mr Brownlee when he interjected that that would lead to gross disorder. No one should refer to the absence of any member and it is equally disorderly then for the Acting Prime Minister to do so.Ron Mark: How can he have confidence in his Minister of Immigration when Vinod Kumar Sharma a former Indian education agent was able to obtain an immigration licence from the Immigration Advisers Authority despite three cases of fraud confirmed by Immigration New Zealand?Hon BILL ENGLISH: I cannot comment on the individual cases other than to say that if anyone has broken the law they are likely to get caught and if they get caught they are likely to get punished.Ron Mark: How can he have confidence in the Minister of Immigration when he has implemented only three of the 14 recommendations from the MartinJenkins review of immigration advice which has resulted in the Immigration Advisers Authority receiving 143 complaints this year about dodgy education agents who are based in India and are giving New Zealand immigration advice unlawfully?Hon BILL ENGLISH: The Minister is implementing the recommendations of the review and I think the member just needs to understand that whatever the rules are there will be people who try to break them. The Government cannot make a set of rules that mean that no one tries to break those rules but we can be assured that if they try to break them and succeed they are likely to be caught and will be punished.Ron Mark: I seek leave to table a response to an Official Information Act request from the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment dated 5 August giving a summary of the total number of complaints received and the recommendations that have been implemented—Mr SPEAKER: Order! It has been described. Leave is sought to table that particular document. Is there any objection? There is objection.Ron Mark: How can he have confidence in the Minister of Energy and Resources who will not use his section 18 powers to scrap the Electricity Authority's unfair imposition of new power charges?Hon BILL ENGLISH: That may be the member's view about the discussion that is going on about transmission charging but the Prime Minister has every confidence in the Minister of Energy and Resources. In fact I cannot recall a time when consumer prices for electricity have been less contentious. In fact I believe under this Minister's watch they have been dropping to some extent which is a pretty major achievement and I would have thought the member would want to congratulate him on that.Ron Mark: How can he have confidence in the Minister of Energy and Resources when the National Party's pet pollster David Farrar found that Kiwis want to pay the same electricity prices from Kaitāia to Bluff and will not forgive his Government if it betrays that fundamental principle?Hon BILL ENGLISH: Whatever discussions New Zealand First is having with some pollster I should think it will not be top of mind for the Minister of Energy and Resources. His job is to make sure that we have an efficient market and I must say that despite the opposition of New Zealand First the 51 percent Government-owned companies having been partially sold down are contributing to that efficient market.Ron Mark: How can hard up families in Northland deal with another $15.5 million in power charges—and for that matter struggling businesses in Northland?Hon BILL ENGLISH: All participants in this discussion should take into account the impact on households and businesses—and in particular households and businesses in the region. And that is really the point of having what has been a quite transparent and very long drawn-out process to discuss exactly those issues.Ron Mark: How can the Prime Minister continue to have confidence in the Minister for the Environment who was clearly demoted as the lead negotiator over the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary due to his bloody-minded incompetence in dealing with the fishing industry over its property rights?Mr SPEAKER: Order! The question is a very marginal question. I will let the Acting Prime Minister answer it the way he sees fit.Hon BILL ENGLISH: It is a bit rich coming from New Zealand First which cannot even get itself organised to confirm some Treaty settlements that have already been done to then criticise the Minister over negotiations that are dealing with very complex issues of property rights for Māori. It seems completely contradictory on the part of New Zealand First.Ron Mark: I seek the leave of the House to table the voting records at select committee that show—Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! The member is now trifling with the House with such a point of order.