Henare Tau: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHenare Tau: General Debate[Sitting date: 08 May 2013. Volume:689;Page:9648. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon TAU HENARE (National): A mere apology is not going to reinvent the man from the North. This is the man who saw an investment opportunity. He bought all the electricity houses in Meremere all the old rundown houses and then he shifted them to the North and he rented them to his own whānau. In fact his own whānau said “No thanks Shane that’s a bit of a ramshackle house. I’d rather be in a State house.” That is the sort of slum landlord Shane Jones is and that is what the Labour Party has invested in.Grant Robertson: Oh!Hon TAU HENARE: Oh do not worry about that. There are plenty of people in the North who were offered those houses. So how dare he come into this House and say he is the new messiah that he is the new man? He is nothing but an old man and an old man who has said sorry for his appalling behaviour. Saying sorry does not actually cut it. Saying sorry does not actually mean you receive the baton from somebody like Parekura. Saying sorry is not going to get you anywhere near the leadership. I will tell you something else.Hon Annette King: You should know Tau No. 80 on the list.Hon TAU HENARE: I am proud to be No. 40—I am proud to be No. 40.I will tell you something about the petition. It was an absolute rort at half a million dollars. One in four signatures—it was basically signed by 2-year-olds basically signed by other people who had already signed the petition. There needs to be an inquiry into that behaviour of the Greens. And let us not point the finger too much at the Greens because who were their mates in this dastardly act? It was not New Zealand First. It just wants to steal property. It just wants to steal property—it wants to nationalise it. It was the Labour Party.Grant Robertson: Shameful Tau.Hon TAU HENARE: What was that?Grant Robertson: It was Grey Power so you’re abusing—Hon TAU HENARE: No no it was not Grey Power; it was the Greens and Labour who spent half a million dollars of taxpayers’ money. And here is the shameful thing: they could not even get the signatures that were required. They could not even get the signatures. They had months and months and months of getting out amongst the people and asking the people to sign a petition. How many signatures did they fall short of?Sixteen thousand—in fact it was most probably more but I think the Clerk of the House was being kind.Todd McClay: How many fakes?Hon TAU HENARE: How many fakes? Sixteen thousand as far as I am concerned.Todd McClay: 100000.Hon TAU HENARE: Sorry I got my figures mixed up. It was 100000—100000 signatures. I could have understood there being 1000 signatures that were a bit dodgy.Dr Cam Calder: Human error.Hon TAU HENARE: Yes human error. But 100000 people in this country? No it cannot be. I cannot believe that a political party or two political parties would rort the system that much—that much. I think there should be an inquiry. In fact I will call now on the Auditor-General to get down here and make an inquiry into the performance of the Green Party and the Labour Party because half a million dollars could have gone to feeding some children. Half a million dollars could have gone to buy some Weetbix for the children so that those children could go to school with a couple of Weetbix in their belly.You see how silly the Green Party and the Labour Party have been in trying to rort the system. One in four signatures was dodgy. One in four signatures was made up. One in four signatures was—well I have to say this: it is criminal. It is criminal. If we were to find somebody double-voting they would have the full force of the law come down upon them. But what about double signatures here? What about the people who rorted the system here? Let us have a look—Grant Robertson: Arrest David Farrar now then.Hon TAU HENARE: There is no need to say that we should arrest David Shearer. There is no need to say that.