1. Prime Minister—Government Tree-planting Programme and KiwiBuildHon PAULA BENNETT (Deputy Leader—National) to the Prime MinisterORAL QUESTIONSQUESTIONS TO MINISTERSPrime Minister—Government Tree-planting Programme and KiwiBuild1. Hon PAULA BENNETT (Deputy Leader—National) to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his Government's policies and actions?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Acting Prime Minister): Yes.Hon Paula Bennett: Does he consider it fair that a family earning the median household income of $82000 per year is less likely to get into one of the 1000 KiwiBuild houses because two doctors earning $180000 a year are eligible to enter the ballot?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: The reality is that both the examples given by the member will be in the ballot. We're not going to advance the course of defeating homelessness in this country by setting people against each other for political purposes.Hon Paula Bennett: So what does he say to a hard-working family who earn $82000 per year who are likely to miss out on a KiwiSaver home to a family earning more than double that?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: The reality is that anyone who knows a thing about housing development knows that KiwiBuild is a dynamic start to which there will be additions in the future and for the first time in a very long time people like that are going to have a chance to enter the home market as an owner rather than a renter.Hon Paula Bennett: Isn't it correct that the only reason that you've increased the eligibility criteria to such high levels is because you know that you can't deliver houses that are actually affordable?SPEAKER: Order! No. The Prime Minister will not answer that question. [Interruption] No. The Prime Minister might—in fact he can't because it was mainly addressed to me. Paula Bennett do you have a further supplementary?Hon Paula Bennett: Does he stand by his Government's statement that it is committed to its tree planting ambitions which will help create sustainable jobs in our regions and help meet our carbon emissions targets"?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Yes.Hon Paula Bennett: Why does his Government's policy of planting 1 billion trees include plants recognised as pest weeds such as silver wattle hawthorn and the Taiwan cherry which the Tasman District Council has been working to eradicate?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: The experience from history of course is as you are preparing for a war in this case on neglect toward the provinces one might make the odd mistake but over 400 trees were listed. One or two were a mistake and they have been weeded out.SPEAKER: Order! Order! Before the Hon Paula Bennett asks her next supplementary which member interjected while Ms Bennett was asking her previous supplementary?Hon Dr David Clark: I believe I interjected after Ms Bennett had finished her question but—SPEAKER: No. Someone clearly interjected during the supplementary question. OK I'll go back to the tapes and have a look.Hon Paula Bennett: So is it a billion trees or a billion weeds?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: The research department of the Opposition are going to have to put more work in than that. If that was an attempt at being a comedian don't give up the day job but then again maybe it's not the member's fault and it's the research department's fault because that sort of mistake has been repeated in this House by countless members of the Opposition.Hon Paula Bennett: If as the Prime Minister states the list has been updated and the errors have been corrected then why at 1 o'clock when I printed the list was it exactly the same and still talking about the silver wattle the hawthorn and the Taiwan cherry?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Well I can say that given there's such little public interest in this mistake and that only one person apparently has applied to see that it is there as evidence namely the member—despite that this Government is so aware of public concern on a matter like that if it ever it arises that even one application for information sees us act within a matter of minutes.Hon Paula Bennett: I seek leave then to table the list of native and exotic species that have been included in the programme that was available at 1 o'clock as it may be changed over time. I'd like it tabled in the House thank you.SPEAKER: OK the member seeks leave to table a document which everyone hopes will be changed. Is there any objection to that? There appears to be none.Document by leave laid on the Table of the House.Hon Paula Bennett: Is he reassessing his Government's foreign ownership policy now that he is happily welcoming in the Chinese Wonder Tree the Oriental plane and the Manchurian birch?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Can I just say that there's two things about that question which should be clarified. First of all: these are productive investments. And the second thing is that because of the ideological mantra that we have to live with of the 10 biggest forestry companies in this country eight are foreign-owned. We're setting out to build a New Zealand that we will own in the future."