Turei Metiria: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTurei Metiria: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 26 August 2015. Volume:708;Page:6157. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]4.METIRIA TUREI (Co-Leader—Green) to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all of his Government’s policies?Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister): Yes.Metiria Turei: Does the Prime Minister stand by his Government’s decision to not introduce a comprehensive warrant of fitness for rental properties in New Zealand?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Yes.Metiria Turei: Will the Prime Minister work with us in the Green Party to implement a comprehensive warrant of fitness for rental housing given the research that shows that 1600 New Zealanders die from housing-related illnesses every winter?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: No.Metiria Turei: What more information does the Prime Minister need to help him move his decision and to introduce a comprehensive rental warrant of fitness if not the 1600 extra deaths each winter from housing-related illnesses if not the deaths of Emma-Lita Bourne or Soesa Tovo—Mr SPEAKER: Order! Bring the question to a conclusion.Metiria Turei: —or the thousands of other illnesses and hospitalisations that Kiwi children suffer?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: From the Greens none.Metiria Turei: Will the Prime Minister meet with the families of Emma-Lita Bourne Soesa Tovo and Iriah Marama and explain to them that their deaths and illnesses are acceptable to him and his Government?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I am more than happy for the Government to continue to correspond with the families about the steps that the Government has taken including the $300 million a year that we are spending including what we have done in terms of insulation of State houses putting in heating devices and the variety of other things we do. I am actually quite proud of this Government’s record of tidying up the mess that we inherited from Labour.Metiria Turei: Is the Prime Minister saying to New Zealanders that he thinks that it is perfectly fair that some New Zealanders will live in warm dry homes while thousands of others will live in cold damp and mouldy homes that make them unsafe or even lead to their deaths and he will do that—he thinks that it is fair—because he does not want to work with the Greens?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Not wanting to work with the Greens has got nothing to do with the issue; that is a longstanding position. In relation to the homes we have insulated 280000 homes under our watch—48000 State houses. We have spent $30 million providing heating and housing. We have installed thermal curtains in 17000 homes since February 2013. We are spending $300 million a year maintaining houses. I would strongly suggest that we are probably doing more to improve the stock of housing than has ever occurred under any Government in New Zealand’s history and I am quite proud of that fact.Metiria Turei: Has the Prime Minister forgotten that the considerable success of the home insulation scheme arose out of an agreement between the National Government and the Green Party to insulate those 300000 homes; and how many more New Zealanders does he believe it will take to get ill be hospitalised and die before he will introduce a comprehensive warrant of fitness for rentals which—Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! The member will resume her seat. She had now asked effectively two questions and is still going on. I will allow the Prime Minister to answer.Rt Hon JOHN KEY: In relation to providing improved standards for housing—for want of a better term a warrant of fitness—the Government is moving in that area as the member is aware. There are a number of important steps that we can take and the Government has prioritised important areas like insulation. We are also conscious of the fact that if there was to be a standardised warrant of fitness across every house there would almost certainly be very increased costs for those who have to rent those properties. And then I am sure the member would be back in the House telling us that we were responsible for rents going up.Clayton Mitchell: Was it his intention under National’s Health and Safety Reform Bill to make paid school sports coaches and teachers legally culpable if children are injured or worse?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: We reject that proposition. I can assure the member that any time that he wants to play bar-the-door with Winston Peters he is free to do it but do not catch him or he will sulk.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! The Rt Hon Winston Peters has a right to raise a point of order and I wish to hear it in silence.Rt Hon Winston Peters: That is another unwarranted attack that is going to lead to disorder. I know he has got an envy complex but that will not solve it.Mr SPEAKER: It is—[Interruption] Order! I will hear from the Rt Hon Prime Minister.Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I was simply referring to the comments I have seen by the Rt Hon Winston Peters himself that he was as quick as lightning back in those days of his rugby career—Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! This will not help the order of the House. The Rt Hon Winston Peters actually raised a reasonable point that it is not necessary to continue to attack the New Zealand First Party in the answers that are given by the Prime Minister.