Harawira Hone: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers Questions to MembersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHarawira Hone: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers Questions to Members[Sitting date: 22 August 2013. Volume:692;Page:12757. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]9.HONE HARAWIRA (Leader—Mana)to thePrime Minister: Will he now that the bill has had its third reading give us the names of the 88 New Zealanders that the GCSB reportedly spied on illegally; if not why not?Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Attorney-General)on behalf of thePrime Minister: I need to begin by saying that among the misinformation surrounding the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) legislation was a claim that 88 people were found to have been illegally spied on. That is not the case. The Kitteridge review found difficulties of interpretation in the law and the issue was forwarded to the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security. The inspector-general found that there were arguably no breaches but said that the law should be clarified. That has now happened. That having been said I can say to the honourable member that the names of the 88 people have not been released publicly and will not be released. To do so would not be in the national interest.Hone Harawira: Given that the SIS has already admitted to spying on people like Annette Sykes Moana Jackson Jane Kelsey John Minto Sue Bradford union members Greenpeace members Amnesty International members New Zealand residents of German extraction and myself does the passing of the GCSB legislation mean that that spying will now be widened to include such subversives and terrorist sympathisers as New Zealand journalists law lecturers New Zealanders of the Year and Queen’s Counsel; if not why not?Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON: I cannot really comment on the first part of the question that starts with the word “Given” and ends with “myself” but I can say that the passage of the GCSB legislation is not going to result in an expansion of surveillance. The member can rest easy in his bed each night.Hone Harawira: Can the Prime Minister confirm that under the proviso that the GCSB is to contribute to the economic well-being of New Zealand—Hon Simon Bridges: What’s all this honky talk?Hone Harawira: —those iwi who along with the New Zealand Māori Council oppose the sale—mēnā e hiahia ana koutou kia whakamāoritia ōku pātai ka pai tērā. Mēnā e kore me kōrero Pākehā ahau. Kei a koe te tikanga. He aha tō whakautu? Horekau? E kore koe e mōhio ki tō tātou reo rangatira? Ka pai.[If you collectively want my questions translated into Māori that is fine. If not then I will speak in English. It is your decision. What is your response? You do have not any? Do you not know our chiefly language? Good .]Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption ] Order! I am going to invite the member to start his question again. Could he help the House by asking the question in either English or Te Reo.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. That was beginning to be a long question but what Mr Harawira really said was: “Do you yourself speak Māori or is that stupid look on your face the one you were born with?”.Mr SPEAKER: Order! If he said that to me it is very uncomplimentary to the Speaker! But we are going to try to get the question asked and answered.Hone Harawira: Can the Prime Minister confirm that under the proviso that the GCSB is to contribute to the economic well-being of New Zealand those iwi who along with the New Zealand Māori Council oppose the sale of water-based electricity companies—because the Government has refused to properly recognise and provide for Māori proprietary interests in water—may become suspects worthy of the attention of the GCSB; and given that the GCSB has acted in the past without the prior knowledge or consent of the Prime Minister is it true that the GCSB may spy on those Māori organisations without telling them anyway?Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON: I have to say in relation to the first part of the question which begins with the word “Given” that it is not a proviso about the economic well-being that is contained in the functions section. That goes back to the Labour Government’s 2003 legislation. But I can assure the member that organisations like the Māori Council which may take a principled stand in opposition to a particular Government policy are hardly likely to be the subject of surveillance and to suggest otherwise would be silly.