Jones ShaneHon SHANE JONES (NZ First): Tēnā anō tātou katoa i roto i tēnei Wiki o Te Reo Māori. Me te tautoko hoki i tēnei tuahine-ā-tōrangapū āku e kaha nei ki te whakahuahua i tō tātou reo Māori i roto i tō tātou Whare i tēnei rā.[Greetings one and all during Māori Language Week. I would like to acknowledge my sister-in-politics who spoke our Māori language in our House today.]I want to again acknowledge the efforts of the parliamentary community to use our language to naturalise it to normalise it and to strip it of its cringe factor so that people will feel more comfortable giving it a go.I stand in this debate to address a matter that is a regular feature of how I discharge my functions and obligations. From time to time I'm challenged as to whether or not the fiscal decisions that are made have been made with the necessary probity and whether I am a very good steward. I think that's a fair enough challenge: that the face of the Provincial Growth Fund needs to be able to withstand attacks from time to time and criticism in terms of stewardship.Now I have visited my ire upon Fonterra and I would say that Fonterra has a new CEO. They've lost both their CEO and their chair in recent times and the CEO needs to be given an opportunity to help correct the trajectory of the waka. He's a younger man. There are big challenges in Fonterra. No doubt there are big challenges because there are large numbers of people that are going to have to curb their ways or be invited to move on in order for this powerful company to sustain itself.But there's one thing that I will not tolerate. I will not tolerate anyone saying the following things about my good self: that my intervention in the Fonterra issues according to Mr Mark Townshend a former director of Fonterra was driven by my donations. That is not only malignant; that is grossly untrue and I say to Mr Townshend a large shareholder at the Fonterra company: if you want to come out into the public and doubt the integrity of our party sure. Mr Townshend and his ilk may think that our small party New Zealand First is a rinky-dink outfit but you sir are out of line. You are casting aspersions on the donors that I have listed. You are doubting the integrity of me and my party as we participate in the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act review and that remark of yours cannot go unanswered. I say to you: go back to Chile and redeem your reputation over there where New Zealand's reputation for being strong on animal rights failed under your stewardship. I say to you sir: do not direct your ire at the ability of New Zealand First to continue to be critics and supporters of various options for improving Fonterra.Now Fonterra is an important entity but no one in Fonterra is bigger than Parliament. No one in Fonterra is bigger than the law. So I say to those directors that are signing up to take on directorial duties as I said to the recently departed chairman of that organisation keep your nose out of NZ First politics. Keep your nose out of politics out of this Parliament because Fonterra is a creation of the law and we as legislators are utterly entitled to reflect perspectives and views. I am not going to remain silent whilst one of New Zealand's most wealthy dairy farmers believes he can blithely go around and darken my good name and expect to continuing to ride around on a helicopter or fly all over the world and survey his dairy empire whilst imagining that those remarks designed to diminish my integrity and status and the ability of our party to speak fearlessly go unanswered.Now I know the man is a grandee of the National Party. I don't care whether he's donated to any member of the National Party. My approach is very candid my approach is very lucid and it's very transparent but I give fair warning to any new director or old director who does that again: you will feel the entire wrath of our party.The debate having concluded the motion lapsed.