Peters Winston: Appointments — Deputy Speaker Assistant Speakers 
Peters Winston: Appointments — Deputy Speaker Assistant Speakers 
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Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
: 
 New Zealand First wholeheartedly supports this appointment. But I want to respond also to the comments of Rodney Hide someone who grossly overspent at the last election. 
Rodney Hide 
: Ha ha! 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: Oh yes he did. He forgot his colleagues and his fellow candidates went to Epsom and grossly overspent. Members should not ask me; they should ask Richard Worth. They need not believe me; they should believe him. Richard Worth knows so do the people who work for him and Rodney Hide has the temerity to come here and fail to recant on that fact. It was he with Don Brash who sat in our office in our caucus making every offer possible: “Anything you want you can have.” It was Don Brash who said in July to the media that he was very happy for the leader of New Zealand First to be the Minister of Foreign Affairs—though he never discussed it with me. [ 
Interruption 
] Oh yes he did. 
Dr Don Brash 
: I raise a point of order Madam Speaker. At no time did I offer to Mr Peters the position of Minister of Foreign Affairs in a National-led Government—or any other ministerial position. 
Rodney Hide 
: Point of order— 
Madam SPEAKER 
: No I do not need any assistance. [ 
Interruption 
] I do not need any assistance Mr Hide I am on my feet. I know this is in effect the first day but I remind members that when points of order are taken they are heard in silence as a matter of respect. I also note that when a member speaks it must be relevant to the motion. I think the member was straying off the point of the motion as he continued in his speech. So I ask the member to continue his speech but to speak to the motion before the House. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: I will. My real point is that Ross Robertson would never behave like that. It is not in his nature—that is why he is qualified for the job. He has enormous experience unlike the people who are now complaining. But my real point is that what Mr Hide had to say given what Don Brash told the media in July without any consultation is like that word one cannot use in Parliament but its first letter resembles a rugby goalpost. It is a word I cannot use in Parliament but it starts with “H” and today we saw the first attempt by those people to gainsay every action they took before the last campaign. 
Gerry Brownlee 
: I seek leave to table Mr Winston Peters’ Rotorua speech so that everybody can see who else is a person beginning with a letter not dissimilar to a rugby goalpost. 
Madam SPEAKER 
: Leave is sought to table that speech. Is there any objection? Yes there is objection. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS 
: I seek leave to table the press statements of the visitation to the New Zealand First office by one Rodney Hide and another Mr Don Brash whose purpose we all know was certain. They should not deny it now or try in my absence from Parliament on important public business to get away with a total undiluted piece of hypocrisy. 
Madam SPEAKER 
: Leave is sought to table those press releases. Is there any objection? 
Gerry Brownlee 
: What’s he tabling? 
Madam SPEAKER 
: Press releases. Is there any objection? Yes there is objection.