Peters Winston: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers Questions to MembersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers Questions to Members[Sitting date: 09 December 2015. Volume:710;Page:8691. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]7.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his statements?Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister): Yes.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Why does he stand by this statement: “If you just look at abattoirs around the Middle East we know there’s a huge amount of opportunity and work there because their abattoirs are very old and they slaughter a lot of animals for domestic business and the Haj.”?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Because it is correct.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Why does he believe that $2.6 million of taxpayers’ money is better given to a Saudi multimillionaire to build an abattoir in Saudi Arabia rather than funding for example melanoma patient Tessa Taylor and at least 11 other New Zealanders with the treatment Keytruda?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Because it is an investment in potential economic growth and it is a strong economy that leaves the Government with more resources ultimately to fund drugs like Keytruda.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Why does he believe that millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money is better given to a Saudi Arabian multimillionaire to build an abattoir in Saudi Arabia rather than contributing to a new needed abattoir on the Chatham Islands for example which would employ 18 people there and vastly improve the Chatham Islands economy?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I do not know the details about the abattoir on the Chatham Islands but I do know that the Minister for Primary Industries has just returned from the Chathams this afternoon. To describe the reception that a National Minister got as a rock concert literally in the Chatham Islands—he was showered with gifts of crayfish titles that they had overwhelming joy about the wharf that we are building and that was just a sample. He came back with not only a massive crayfish for me but a message: “Please come back Prime Minister we want you in the Chatham Islands we desperately”—Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order!Hon Annette King: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Point of order—Mr SPEAKER: Order! I have a point of order first of all from—[Interruption] Order! I have a point of order first of all from the Hon Annette King.Hon Annette King: I wonder whether the Prime Minister could extend that answer and talk about the crayfish and the reception I got on the Chatham Islands yesterday.Mr SPEAKER: We are keen to finish before 10 o’clock tonight.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. Because it is not available I want to table two documents. One is the meat processing project report—it is not available on the internet—with regard to the Chatham Islands and the other one is a photograph of the Chatham Islanders in respect of the last ministerial visit where they are still laughing.Mr SPEAKER: I will put the leave certainly for the first document. In fact I will put the leave for both documents. Leave is sought to table them. Is there any objection? There is none. They will be tabled.Documents by leave laid on the Table of the House.Rt Hon Winston Peters: What representations has the Prime Minister received from his colleague the Hon Chris Finlayson about projects like a new meatworks for the Chatham Islands and the lengthening of the runway there—something he boasts about to Chatham Islanders ad nauseam?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: My understanding is that Mr Finlayson has been to the Chatham Islands on many occasions. He also has received great support from the people of the Chatham Islands. I do not know exactly the party vote results in the Rongotai electorate of the Chatham Islands but I just heard the squabbling amongst the extended family members and the way I heard the discussion was that Chris Finlayson beat Annette King. But we do not like to mention that here so close to Christmas.