Graham Kennedy: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeGraham Kennedy: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 20 May 2014. Volume:699;Page:18086. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]10.Dr KENNEDY GRAHAM (Green) to thePrime Minister: Has he received information that any other New Zealander apart from Daryl Jones has been killed in United States drone strikes; if so what was that information?Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister): I have previously said that a New Zealander was killed in a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen. I am advised that I have not received information that other New Zealanders have been killed in drone strikes. However I am not going to rule that out for the following reasons. As I have said there are sometimes New Zealanders who put themselves in harm’s way the Government does not know where they are and what they are doing and a number of people are registered as dual citizens.Dr Kennedy Graham: Can he affirm that information supplied to US intelligence during his time as Prime Minister has never led to the death of any civilian?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I cannot be sure of that information. As I said yesterday in my press conference New Zealand intelligence agencies have gathered information—in Afghanistan for instance—and have passed that to our International Security Assistance Force partners. Our International Security Assistance Force partners have used that information I suspect and I cannot confirm exactly the results of that.Dr Kennedy Graham: Does he then consider the New Zealand Government to be an accomplice to an extrajudicial killing of a New Zealand citizen if our intelligence agency supplies information to its US counterpart about a New Zealander and that New Zealander is killed by a US drone strike?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: The member is talking about a hypothetical situation that has not occurred to the best of my knowledge.Dr Kennedy Graham: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. My previous question was not hypothetical because in fact it has been acknowledged and accepted by the House that a New Zealander has been killed.Rt Hon JOHN KEY: The member was quite clear. He made the comment in his question that New Zealand intelligence services have provided information that had been used in the killing of a New Zealander in Yemen. As I have made quite clear inpublic statements New Zealand did not supply information to the US authorities when it came to the New Zealander who was killed in counter-terrorism operations in Yemen.Mr SPEAKER: The point is that the question was asked and it has been addressed in the answer of the Prime Minister.Dr Kennedy Graham: Will the Prime Minister instruct our intelligence agency to adopt a policy similar to that of its German counterpart which rules out the possibility of shared information being directly used in a US drone strike against one’s own citizens?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: No.Hon David Cunliffe: As a matter of policy and not of operational detail what caveats limits or policies of any kind does New Zealand place on the use of New Zealand - sourced signals intelligence provided to its Five Eyes partner countries in operations such as drone strikes?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: That is a very detailed question and I simply do not have the answer to that with me in the House.Hon David Cunliffe: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. It may be legitimate for the Prime Minister to say that he does not have all the detail but given that the question was carefully phrased to say “of any kind” could the Prime Minister please—Mr SPEAKER: Could the member come to the point of order? What is the point of order?Hon David Cunliffe: —say whether there is some detail that he may be in a position to provide.Mr SPEAKER: That is not a point of order; that is effectively the member asking another supplementary question which he may well be entitled to do. The Prime Minister has answered the question. If the member wants to continue with further supplementaries he has every opportunity to do so but not by a point of order.