Peters Winston: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 04 June 2013. Volume:690;Page:10630. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]4.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) to thePrime Minister: Has he recently had reason to have lost confidence in any of his Ministers; if so why?Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister): No.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Did he or his office question the Minister of Revenue as to how aDominion Postjournalist received inside information leading that journalist to write on 5 February this year: “A ministry briefing leaked last night”—Hon Members: When?Rt Hon Winston Peters: —last night—“suggests Novopay needs a fundamental redesign.” and outlining that the Inland Revenue Department—[Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! Will the member please continue with his question. [Interruption] Order! Will the member please continue with his question.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Down here we can hardly hear a thing because of the noise.Mr SPEAKER: There were interjections I acknowledge that to the member but they were not that loud. They are often substantially louder than that. Would the member please start his question again.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Did he or his office question the Minister of Revenue as to how aDominion Postjournalist received inside information leading that journalist to write on 5 February this year: “A ministry briefing leaked last night suggests Novopay needs a fundamental redesign.” and outlining that the Inland Revenue Department had installed a senior manager and small teams of payroll experts at the Ministry of Education to sort out the Novopay mess?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Well I certainly have not. I am not aware of my office doing such a thing. From what the member seems to be saying—I have not read the article; I presume I may have read it at the time but I do not have it in front of me—it does sound like it is quite possible that a journalist could have information on that simply because it was in the public domain anyway that Novopay was going to be substantially reworked.Rt Hon Winston Peters: As Prime Minister and Minister responsible for the GCSB did he or his office investigate the leaking of an internal survey on the GovernmentCommunications Security Bureau to aDominion Postjournalist outlining how low the morale at the bureau was as reported in theDominion Poston 16 October 2012?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: No not to the best of my knowledge.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Has he directed his staff to investigate how a journalist from theDominion Postobtained the information that led to a report that Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee members were being muzzled from asking detailed questions on the Dotcom saga as reported in theDominion Poston 13 December 2012?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: No.Rt Hon Winston Peters: As Prime Minister and chair of the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee does he believe there is a leak in that committee and if so who does he believe is that leak—Mr Shearer Mr Norman Mr Banks the Prime Minister himself or the remaining member of that five-member committee who wrote of the Government Communications Security Bureau on 24 October last year: “I am starting to feel very uncomfortable.”?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: No I do not think there is a leak. It is possible that someone has made an indiscreet comment and if they have I am sure that they would regret that.