Bennett PaulaHon PAULA BENNETT (Deputy Leader—National): Well ministerial discretion by definition is specific powers that Ministers have to make decisions that are provided to them by the New Zealand Parliament. These decisions are considered so important that the Minister is given power over anyone and anything else. They're often difficult complex and have multiple elements to them. The Minister must have known that the Karel Sroubek decision would be controversial. Let's be frank: to most people it would be abhorrent. So when you're faced with a decision like that you cross your t's and you dot your i's. You get officials into your office. You dig. You ask every question that you can possibly think of. You think about it in every conceivable way and then you sit on it for a few days and you think about it some more. Then you think of some other questions that you perhaps didn't ask. One goes back to those officials and asks those questions again and digs in because they know this will be controversial. They know that the public won't understand or agree with it.There are even times when as a Minister you may take an oral item to Cabinet to inform them of your decision so that they understand. We hear the Prime Minister found out—she told us today—about this decision via the media. So his radar wasn't even working well enough that he alerted the Prime Minister to something that could be this controversial. You do not do the bare minimum—the bare minimum—expected from a Minister. The bare minimum is what this Minister did—the bare minimum. What I am saying to the Minister of Immigration is: you are a Minister of the Crown; you should put the protection and the safety of New Zealanders first not an individual and that is not what has happened.Here's what we know to date. I do this to help the Minister of Immigration because we seem to know more about the Karel Sroubek case than actually he does.Hon Member: Everyone knows more.Hon PAULA BENNETT: Yeah. Everybody seems to know more. Even today he had to get a patsy question from his colleagues saying You're spokesperson on immigration. Please tell me what he knows because we don't know anything and it'd be really handy if he kind of let us."—but anyway. So he arrived in New Zealand in 2003 under a fake name fake passport fleeing from the Czech Republic after some dealings with the Czech police. He gets residency. He stays in New Zealand. Since 2010 he has a rap sheet that would make Tony Soprano think he should be a member of his gang quite frankly and one he would be proud of. He was arrested in 2009 on aggravated robbery and blackmail charges.In 2011 a jury found him guilty of using a false passport and giving false details. He was arrested soon after as part of Operation Ark a covert investigation into drugs. I reckon there's a bit more to come on that so we'll keep digging around that one and keep watching that one. That's a watching brief because there are a number of people that were involved in Operation Ark and a number that went through that and the fact that Sroubek is actually part of it just does have another whole lot of links going on there.In 2014 he was charged with manufacturing drugs. A few months later he was arrested for importing drugs. He then was jailed for almost six years. The Parole Board declined early release because he's untrustworthy. So the Parole Board declined release and then Iain Lees-Galloway cancelled his deportation less than 48 hours later. Yeah—48 hours later. I know it sounds unbelievable—that's actually because it is unbelievable—but that is the decision that the Minister made without telling the Prime Minister and without actually going to his colleagues.Here's where it gets interesting in the last few days. We've got people in witness protection. He allegedly assaulted and intimidated witnesses. The police placed the entire family in witness protection because they were in fear of their lives. Police do not do that lightly. The police actually took this seriously enough. Now we are learning that his estranged wife is having all sorts of dealings to do with the house and that that's going on sale and we've heard that he's got caveats on things and everything else. Ironically when the house goes up for sale which he didn't want to happen—because he put a caveat on it—we're now finding that that house has been burgled. His character is not the type that we want in this country and that is why he should not have been given residency like he was. There is no way the right decision has been made and no way the right questions were asked of this Minister and it's time he took account for it."