Kaye Nikki: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers Questions to Members 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Kaye Nikki: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers Questions to Members 
[Sitting date: 14 August 2012. Volume:682;Page:4309. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
10. 
NIKKI KAYE (National—Auckland Central) 
 to the  
Minister of Housing 
: What reports has he received on his alleged visit to 44 Symonds Street earlier this year? 
Hon PHIL HEATLEY (Minister of Housing) 
: 
 I have received a number of reports on this matter. On 2 August 2012 the Hon Annette King gave me the credit for new lino at the entrance of 44 Symonds Street and I have to admit that I was delighted to imagine the residents enjoying their new clean sparkling flooring. However a search in my diary and checking by my staff and the Housing New Zealand Corporation suggest that I have not visited 44 Symonds Street this year. In fact as far we can determine I have not visited 44— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! I apologise to the Minister but I cannot hear a thing with that level of noise. [ 
Interruption 
] Order! I am on my feet. We will have a reasonable level of interjection. 
Hon PHIL HEATLEY 
: In fact I have not visited 44 Symonds Street as Minister and I would welcome the member proving her claims to the contrary. So although the Symonds Street ministerial lino makes for a fascinating story I am afraid I need to tell the House that it appears to be misinformed. 
Nikki Kaye 
: What reports has he received on maintenance at 44 Symonds Street? 
Hon PHIL HEATLEY 
: Although I cannot take credit for the lino I am happy to inform the Hon Annette King that her assertion that this is the only maintenance of the flats in the last 4 years was also incorrect. In fact I am advised by the corporation that in the 3 years from 2009 to 2011 over $350000 has been spent on work on the flats. This is $150000 more than the previous Government spent in the 3 years from 2006 to 2008. So can I say to members on that side of the House that instead of coming in here with tales about visits or fictitious stories about flats with no maintenance maybe they could contribute to the solution and support us at every turn—instead of opposing us at every turn—to make State housing better places in New Zealand. 
Hon Annette King 
: When—[ 
Interruption 
] 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! I want to hear this question. 
Hon Annette King 
: When he said recently that he knew he was a very effective Minister because new lino had been put down at the foyer of 44 Symonds Street when he visited the flats is he now saying that he is not a very effective Minister at all because they got the lino without his help; and did the tenants meet a Phil Heatley imposter or was it a linocut of him? 
Hon PHIL HEATLEY 
: Ha ha ha ha ha ha! No amount of joking—no amount of joking—is going to get past— 
Hon Annette King 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. [ 
Interruption 
] 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! [ 
Interruption 
] Order! Now the House will come to order. A point of order has been called. 
Hon Annette King 
: That is a very very unusual way of answering a question— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! I accept it was unusual but I did not hear anything out of order. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I wonder whether you could dig deep back into your history of understanding internal animal noises to identify the animal. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! We have had enough we have—[ 
Interruption 
] Order! The House will come to—[ 
Interruption 
] Order! We have had sufficient. 
Hon PHIL HEATLEY 
: No amount of joking about this gets past the fact that the member incorrectly said that I visited the place and tabled documents in the House—or at least attempted to—and incorrectly said there was no maintenance. They may tell jokes and make jokes but my point is this: media need to check very carefully when Annette King— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! That is sufficient. We are not going to have members attacking questioners in that manner. The Minister had made his point perfectly clearly without that. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I am sorry; I had assumed that the Minister was going to correct his previous answer at this point. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: The Minister had answered the question asked and— 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: No no from the previous— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! That is not a point of order. The member knows that.