Peters Winston: Urgent Debates — Hon Peter Dunne—Report on Investigation of Review of Compliance Leak and Resignation as MinisterText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: 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:10924. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First):There is a sword of Damocles that hangs over the Prime Minister and the head of this Government. Those members seem to have learnt nothing. Whether it was back when we had the Māori loans affair the BNZ the wine-box inquiry the tea party tapes—they sit there and scream out “Where’s your evidence?” and when it is all over they are the ones who have been severely damaged by their behaviour. It puts you in mind of Walter Scott’s famous quote when he said: “O what a tangled web we weave When we first practise to deceive!”. It had all the marks of a whodunit. And if Dunne had not done it who had?Oh how things have changed. Back just before the time he ordered the inquiry Mr Key was the anti-politician—the fellow who could be trusted because he did not behave like the rest of us. He had standards that were high he said. He was someone above the ruck of politics. Of course he thought that matters like this—proven when he sent the police in after the teapot tapes—were things that were justified from a Government and from the Prime Minister of a country. Remember that? That was 2 months ago. Back then he was going to make sure that no one undermined the integrity of the entire Public Service. How laudable was that? He was going to get to the proverbial bottom of it. Now he is condemned by his own words. Now he can parachute out of the bottom of a snake and still have some room.It looks like John Key never had any intention of finding out what really happened. There was no public servant alas to carry the can like they did over Novopay. Three Ministers were responsible but oh no they found a civil servant. And the meat shipments left on the wharf in China—has any Minister been called to account? No.The finger of suspicion came on Mr Dunne. The Prime Minister had a dual responsibility over this matter. He is the Minister responsible for security. He is the Minister above all Ministers responsible for the actions of those who are his Ministers. The leak of the Kitteridge report was not an isolated incident. That demonstrates how incompetent this Prime Minister is and how irresponsible his behaviour is. This was not an isolated incident. There was the leak about morale at the Government Communications Security Bureau there was the leak about the new head of the bureau there were leaks about the briefing on the bureau there was a leak about the security of the Intelligence and Security Committee itself and there were other leaks. The secretary of the committee warned the members in writing to shut up. All five members were now under suspicion. But one was responsible. There are five sets of electronic records Mr Key and we want to see the complete package. There are five sets of electronic records—Hon John Banks: Well table them—table them.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: —and it is the responsibility Mr Banks of your Prime Minister to show the country what they mean. There are over five leaks with one department alone the Government Communications Security Bureau. And Mr Banks has the temerity to shout out to a backbench MP: “You table them.” Well I can see why someone who would forget 42 out of 42 texts would say that. But a rational sane person would not say that—that the responsibility lay with a backbench MP. No Prime Minister the reason why you have on your CV the Prime Minister’s job is that with the job and the status and the office goes a terrible thing called responsibility transparency openness and honesty.You know national security is the first duty of any and every MP. What are our allies thinking? The member Peter Dunne broke the terms of his warrant when he was a Minister. He leaked security matters to a journalist. This was no stand over matters of principle. This was no stand to make the world a better and safer place or to make New Zealand a better and safer place. Maybe years of looking at the tax tables made him flip. Maybe they caused him to want to get some excitement into his life. Whatever it is—it may be a human explanation—it is not what the nation needs to know which is what was leaked to whom and when and it was far wider than the Kitteridge report was looking into. He is given life though simply because National needs his vote to sell off our assets and he let the shonky casino deal go ahead and Mighty River Power—Hon John Banks: Ha ha!Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: No no Mr Banks. I have seen that nervous laugh and it gives me enormous confidence that one day I will wipe it off your face.You know yesterdayPrime News at 5.30 carried Fairfax’s outing of Mr Dunne with information that I knew at the time that I said in the select committee: “Mr Dunne you’re the leak aren’t you?”.Hon John Banks: How did you know that?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Oh great question. My job is to be good at my job. My job and my colleagues’ job—everybody who votes for New Zealand First knows one thing profoundly: we will keep the system honest. That is why they are coming out in their droves because New Zealand First keeps the system honest. This is just one more example. I know that members would love to know how we know. Well you know I suppose we would all like to know that but we cannot divulge the source.Hon John Banks: What about Owen Glenn’s cheque?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: That was not behaving illegally. That is the difference over here. That is the difference over here.Why did David Henry stop investigating the leak of the Kitteridge report? It is all on page 2 of his report. “I’ve got the powers in the State Services Commission.” he says. “I’ve got the support of the Prime Minister. I’ve got a Minister out of Cabinet who is not a civil servant. I remain of the view that I need to have full access to all 86 emails.” It is all there.What is the National Party’s devious and bound-to-fail excuse? “Oh all of a sudden we cannot entertain any breach of privacy issues.” Mr Banks and Mr Brownlee where in the report from Mr Henry has he disclosed the 44 emails already seen by him highly edited as they are? There is no privacy issue. I personally am not concerned about the emails from Andrea Vance; I am concerned about the far more than 86 emails that were on this issue and others as well.Some members here should learn how to do their research and homework. Perhaps if they knew a few people around town they might find out what is going on downtown. Let us demolish the argument that there is a privacy issue. Mr Henry has not given over the 44 emails. There goes the excuse. Why did Mr Henry not get the powers to see all the emails and ensure a thorough and complete investigation? The Prime Minister was asked today: “When you set up the inquiry did you want to get at the full truth?”. “Yes.” he said. Really? Well he is exposed by his own words and shibboleths and deceit. Why for example is this reeking of double deals? Had it been a civil servant it would have been not just demotion—not just demotion—but demotion and then dismissal instantly. But here we have got Mr Dunne—he stays on. The whole affair is smelling like a giant cover-up.The Prime Minister goes on to tell the media yesterday at a press conference that Mr Dunne has been removed from the Intelligence and Security Committee because he is no longer a Minister. Here is the Intelligence and Security Committee Act 1996. This is section 7 of the Act and it shows that after 24 hours the Prime Minister still cannot tell the truth. The media might fall for it but we did not. Peter Dunne is entitled as an MP to be on that committee so why did you get up in front of the press and say that when you knew you had to be not telling what were the facts?Every day there is more obfuscation and evasion. And let me tell you this: this is not a case of whether New Zealand First or an MP in New Zealand First should do the Prime Minister’s job but we are going to carry on until this cover-up is totally exposed for what it is. It has one valuable asset for New Zealand apart from correcting our national security. Do you know what it is? People are going to find over the ensuing days and weeks exactly what the Prime Minister of their country alas is like.