Peters WinstonRt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First): Let us deal with the member for Epsom who was placed there by the National Party. This is how informed this young guy is. He said that Lion is technically" owned overseas. No it is not "technically" owned overseas. It is owned overseas sunshine. Not technically; it is owned offshore. Then he said that Ward went over to get this money in the late 1800s. No he did not. He went in the 1920s. Does he not know any history?Ron Mark: No he doesn't.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: No. He gets up here beats his mouth off—Ron Mark: He hasn't been to school yet.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: He has not gone to school. He is a policy wonk. He just makes a right fool of himself.I want to thank Rino Tirikatene for that brilliant example and Phil Twyford and Eugenie Sage from the Greens for their contributions and David Cunliffe as well for making plain common sense. Common sense is what New Zealanders want. They are sick and tired of this ephemeral neo-liberal claptrap that people like David Seymour cannot get their heads around as they cannot get their heads around the fact that he does not belong to a political party. He gets up and he says "On behalf of the ACT Party".Ron Mark: What's that?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Well what party would that be? What party would that be? How did he get here? Well the National Party guy pulled his hoardings down. Do you feel like a puppet? "Yes I do." That is what he should be saying but he has got the arrogance to get up here to criticise a party that is talking plain common sense.Let me start with Mr Foster-Bell. He said this would cost each house purchaser $1500. That is balderdash. Do you know what the register cost in Australia? It cost $186000—$186000 for the country. We are living in a computerised age. It is a matter of compilation so you know what is going on. Then he says it is an offence against foreign owners' rights. But he did not say it was an offence against New Zealanders' rights because they have to go on the register now. That is the law. In fact Alastair Scott who lives in Wellington represents Wairarapa and speaks for the banks said he backed the Overseas Investment Office (OIO). He said the brightline test is a bank account number. That is his answer. But no one Mr Scott is collating the information. That is my point. Does he not get it?For example here is the essence of it all because it is seriously fundamental: no statement came from Land Information New Zealand for 38 percent of foreign sales. For 38 percent there was no statement.David Seymour: Who cares?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Oh "Who cares?". Well apparently everybody excepting the moron does care. We also know from the OIO that the Inland Revenue Department does not record information based on tax residency. But then Mr Foster-Bell talked about all those people—no doubt from the National Party—who have got multiple tax residencies. Well why do we not name them? Are they going to act for the New Zealand people or are they just going to act for all these foreigners? We know the answer to that.I think Mr Foster-Bell also said: "It's against our free-trade agreements." Funny that—China does not allow us to buy land in their country. So that cannot be right can it? Australia—well it cannot be against the Australia and New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement the oldest one we have got because they have a register. I want to say this: it is astonishing you know when you get somebody who gets up like the member for—what is it—Wairarapa who lives in Wellington Alastair Scott. He said this: "Does my son have to go on a register if he buys land?". Well Mr Scott if he is a New Zealander yes he does now and has done for decades. Look it is one thing to come from the banks but your job is to represent Wairarapa and the good people there.Can I say also there when Brett Hudson got up what he said was simply unnecessary. Incoherent he said—that is what he talked about: "incoherent"—and he said the Government had been collecting data. It is not a great problem he said. Well it is a great problem when 38 percent of the information is not required to be registered in the first place.But here is the most important thing—here is the most important thing. Australia the UK the Netherlands France Ireland and Norway are all going to it. China Hong Kong Singapore and Malaysia are all heading down this track. So are nearly all the countries of Asia. They know that they are not making any more land. The problem with the ACT Party and the National Party which is similarly of its ilk is that they do not realise that there has been a massive change in this country's politics in the last 2 years. The game is up. The game of disguising facts for the New Zealand people is simply not going to work. And in fact—yes Mr Assistant Speaker I will wind up very fast. I am going to get on the campaign trail and wind in the Wairarapa and down to Invercargill—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order!Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: —and all over the country to spread the word because out there New Zealanders want to know.Jono Naylor: What about the people of the Far North? Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: No no in Palmerston North I will. Jono Naylor: What about Northland; are you going to visit them?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: In Palmerston North yes—well unlike your leader I live there. He lives in Parnell. I have been in my electorate more times in 1 month than he has for the full 10 years in his electorate.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order!Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: We are not here to still have these silly questions again. Thank you very much. I commend this bill to the House."