Joyce Steven: Urgent Debates — Hon Peter Dunne—Report on Investigation of Review of Compliance Leak and Resignation as MinisterText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeJoyce Steven: Urgent Debates — Hon Peter Dunne—Report on Investigation of Review of Compliance Leak and Resignation as Minister[Sitting date: 11 June 2013. Volume:691;Page:10929. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon STEVEN JOYCE (Minister for Economic Development):The so-called urgent debate from the Labour Party this afternoon has actually been pretty appalling.The leader of the Labour Party could not even devote 15 minutes to the issue. He had to—Hon Trevor Mallard: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I just want to seek an assurance that there is a written undertaking for this member to take the call that belongs to the Hon Peter Dunne.Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: This according to my schedule is an either/or call.Hon STEVEN JOYCE: As I was saying in this so-called urgent debate the leader of the Labour Party could not even devote 15 minutes of his speech to the issue at hand. He had to trail off down the Skycity path which of course is a path that certain Labour MPs trod on the weekend on Saturday night at a certain rugby match—Hon Gerry Brownlee: Oh no!Hon STEVEN JOYCE: Yes certain Labour Party MPs were treading off down the Skycity path and enjoying the hospitality of Skycity. That is actually a little like the “h” word we are not allowed to use in this Chamber and that is what we see out of this debate with the Labour Party today. Actually I think it would be very helpful if Labour MPs could rule themselves out as to whether they attended the Skycity box on Saturday night because that would prove they were not being “h”—hypocritical—and they would then have the opportunity to show that they had the courage of their convictions.But we need to have an assessment of how the relevant people involved in this particular issue have performed—the Prime Minister first of all. The Prime Minister has once again upheld the highest standards in his ministry. There is no Taito Phillip Field issue here. There is no trying to pretend it is not happening for months on end as the Labour Party did—trying to pretend that Taito Phillip Field was not an issue as the Labour Party did for months and months on end. The Prime Minister has an issue he calls an inquiry the inquiry reports the Minister refuses to cooperate with the inquiry and the Minister resigns. That is the quality of the leadership of this Prime Minister in this Parliament which is way higher than what actually occurred under the Labour Government of the previous 9 years which was absolutely shonky the entire time.Then we have Mr Dunne. Mr Dunne has made mistakes—there is no doubt about that—and he has paid for those mistakes. He has paid for those mistakes and I am sure wherever he is this week he is contemplating those mistakes. But of course he has had a proud 29 years in this Parliament. He has accepted his punishment and he has resigned from the ministry. He has actually done that and he has done it without complaint which is appropriate in this situation.So those two people involved in this—the Prime Minister with his high standards and in fact the person who was directly involved—have actually done their jobs. So what about the rest? What about David Shearer? Well I am sorry David Shearer and his party have been hysterical and also completely hypocritical in terms of the way this has happened. The reality of it is that the Labour Party sat there and in fact Grant Robertson said on theThe Nation on the weekend that Peter Dunne should leave Parliament altogether—he should leave Parliament altogether.Well do not Labour members have short memories? Back in 2004 Lianne Dalziel leaked legally privileged case notes to the media about a refugee. She repeatedly denied that she had done this. And what was her punishment for this? She was sacked as a Minister. She did not leave Parliament. You did not hear Grant Robertson in the leader’s office declaring that she should resign. She actually stood in the 2005 election and was reappointed again after the election. So the problem for the Labour Party is that it is completely double standard on this—completely double standard. Of course it is trying to quietly back away a little bit now in terms of the issue because it does not even want to know because it knows Phil Goff is in the gun. Phil Goff is in the gun for his leak. I could quote all the comments about Phil Goff saying that it was ridiculous tohave an inquiry into the leaks at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade which of course he did.But the other one that needs to be mentioned—well there are two. One is Winston Peters. Winston Peters—I am sorry; it is just like a rerun of everything I have watched on TV for the last 25 years. You may not have yet seen the new Sky television channel called JONES! but I tell you what that speech this afternoon was like being on JONES! TV. It could have slotted in betweenIt Ain’t Half Hot Mum andCheers . It was that relevant it was that modern and it was that much of a rerun of every speech he has made over the last 30 years. It was appalling just like his performance onCampbell Live last night. Then we have Russel Norman—“Rusty”—who in his race to be the Leader of the Opposition races towards the cliff of requiring the emails of every MP to be made available to the Prime Minister of the day and then like a late-realising lemming actually stops just prior to the cliff and backs away. Meanwhile all his friends on the left are calling him illiberal and an authoritarian. The problem is that these parties have not considered what they want and have done an appalling job on this issue.