4. Pike River Mine Disaster—Drift Re-entry and Video FootageRt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) to the Prime MinisterPike River Mine Disaster—Drift Re-entry and Video Footage4. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his statements; if so how?Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH (Prime Minister): Yes. Rt Hon Winston Peters: Does he stand by his statement on manned re-entry into Pike River that You can't have no one responsible"; if so why is it that after 6 years no one has been held accountable for the disaster and loss of 29 lives?Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: While the company was actually found guilty it was the perception that no one was held responsible that led to the changes in workplace safety law passed by this Parliament. It is somewhat ironic that that member is the one who now wants us to exempt the Pike River situation from the law we put in place because of the problems at Pike River. Rt Hon Winston Peters: Why did the Government switch to saying re-entry into the mine is not safe when the Pike River Coal tunnel reclamation proposal of 2007 pages 6 to 8 outlined two options of reclamation that do not mention any risk of explosion? Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: It is not a matter of whether it is the Government's position. It is the case that the decision not to send men back into that mine at significant risk to their lives was made by the people in charge of the workplace who would be responsible for the entry and who had extensive assessment of the safety risks and came to the view that they could not deal with all those risks. That is the decision that has been made and the Government as it happens agrees with the view based on that advice. Rt Hon Winston Peters: Who should the people of New Zealand trust: Paula Bennett who claims that Pike River families were shown key parts of the video footage in 2011 or Mike Clement Deputy Police Commissioner who admitted that the families were not shown footage of a mine rescuer in the drift?Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: The two people are probably talking about different things. The Police advice was that video was shown to the families. They have not made any claims about which bits were seen and which family members were there. The video should all be and is being released to the families. I wish it would deal with their concerns but it probably will not. Rt Hon Winston Peters: When the Police say it does not know who made the decision not to show all the footage to the Pike River families who did because it challenges the Government's perverse view that the mine is not safe for re-entry?Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: It would be great if the video footage was decisive in some way either about what happened in the mine or about the safety of re-entry. Certainly the advice that I have had is that it does not make any difference to those perceptions. However it is important that the families can see that and therefore that they should see all of the video. In the meantime we are getting on with a process that will collect more and better video with a safe unmanned entry to the mine to try to answer some of the families' questions.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Does the footage to be shown to the families include all the borehole footage?Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: I am advised that all the video that has been taken will be made available to the families and some already has. If there are further questions about what is in the mine or evidence about what might have happened hopefully more questions will be able to be answered by the next step in the process which is unmanned entry with better technology and higher-quality video.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I asked a question that would have to be answered yes no or I do not know which was to do with the specific borehole footage that the families want to see and the Prime Minister is going everywhere but there. I want to know whether it is yes no or he does not know.Mr SPEAKER: Order! On this occasion I cannot help the member. I ask him to refer to Speaker's rulings 191(3) and (4). What that says effectively is if that member wants that sort of detail in his further supplementary questions then he needs to not ask such a generalised primary question.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Ah!Mr SPEAKER: Order! The question has been addressed by the Prime Minister in answering the member's supplementary question.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Did he have a memory fade when he said he was not aware of New Zealand being used as a back-door entry to Australia given the countless times he was warned by New Zealand First of that and even by his colleague in March of 2003 in her copycat mode—that is Katherine Rich—when she said it was being used as a back-door entry because—Hon Dr Nick Smith: 14 years ago.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Well that is when it happened stupid. All right?Mr SPEAKER: Order! The question has now been asked and it was not helped by the interjection from the Hon Dr Nick Smith.Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: No."