1. Question No. 1—Prime MinisterHon PAULA BENNETT (Deputy Leader—National) to the Prime MinisterORAL QUESTIONSQUESTIONS TO MINISTERSQuestion No. 1—Prime Minister1. Hon PAULA BENNETT (Deputy Leader—National) to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government's statements and actions?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Deputy Prime Minister) on behalf of the Prime Minister: On behalf of the Prime Minister of course. Hon Paula Bennett: How long does she think there should be between a positive test of COVID-19 and the public being informed of the details?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: The answers to those questions we are leaving to medical experts and not making jaundiced political decisions about it.Hon Paula Bennett: Well why then did it take almost six hours after the Minister of Health confirmed a third case of COVID-19 on live television this morning for the Director-General of Health to provide any further details to the public?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Because the Government is acting in a responsible timely manner and at the behest of the medical experts who are on the front line in this case and we regret the attempt to sensationalise what is a problem that we in this country must all face together.Hon Paula Bennett: Does she think then that it is at the behest of those medical experts that a Minister of Health makes an announcement on live television and yet more details are not provided to the public for many hours afterwards?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Again we do not intend to prosecute the correctness of the information to the public via only the media. Public statements will be made when the medical experts are certain of what they are saying. But I want to remind that member of what Siouxsie Wiles a microbiologist said and she said this about Mr Bridges: [It's] downright irresponsible during an outbreak such as this to undermine public confidence in the official response." And I agree with her.Hon Grant Robertson: In light of that answer by the Deputy Prime Minister what is his reaction—SPEAKER: Order! The member will get it right: "by the Prime Minister".Hon Grant Robertson: In light of that answer by the Prime Minister what is his reaction to a member of the Opposition Mr David Bennett—SPEAKER: Order! Now I'm going to give the Minister of Finance one last chance to get it right.Hon Grant Robertson: Has she seen reports of members of the Opposition—in particular Mr David Bennett—encouraging people to panic buy and does she think that is a responsible action?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Could I just reply on behalf of the Prime Minister and say that yes Mr Bennett a National MP has even told his constituents over radio to start "panic buying". Now this is in circumstances where Michael Baker of the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago said that the handling of this issue has been exemplary. And here's the point: it would be laughable what Mr Bennett said but the reality is that nobody in this country thinks such clowns should be in the next Government.Hon Paula Bennett: Does he think it instils confidence in the public when the Minister of Health makes a statement on live TV in the morning and yet it is then hours later that the actual facts are given to the public?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: On behalf of the Prime Minister everybody over here everybody watching this programme is doing their darnedest to fathom out why that member is asking that question as though it is of some significance.Hon Member: That's not an answer.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: It is an answer.SPEAKER: I think the last bit of it might have been.Hon Paula Bennett: Was the Deputy Prime Minister wrong when he said that the car "feebate" tax was "dead"?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: On behalf of the Prime Minister I'm very pleased to confirm that the Deputy Prime Minister said no such thing. What he did say was that the claim being made by the National Party in their social media was an unadulterated porky. That's what you did say that the Deputy Prime Minister said and in that sense he is totally correct.Hon Paula Bennett: Will taxpayers' money be used to buy land at Ihumātao?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: On behalf of the Prime Minister I am glad that the Deputy Prime Minister is answering for me today because what I said yesterday is what he is going to say today: the same thing.Hon Paula Bennett: When will there be an announcement on what is happening at Ihumātao?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: On behalf of the Prime Minister in the fullness of time when we've all kept our word.Hon Paula Bennett: What was the Deputy Prime Minister's response to her view that Minister Shane Jones' comments were "loose and wrong" with respect to his comments about Indian students?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: On behalf of the Prime Minister my views were made very clear to the public with respect to what Mr Jones had said. But then of course I've later had the opportunity to be appraised of the full context which would have been invaluable at the time and that context is to be seen in 19 different articles in all sorts of Indian media—including by a man who is of Indian extraction in the National Party who said that in February of 2017 at the height of the National Party's debacle with tertiary students from India.Hon Paula Bennett: Does she now think she was incorrect to have made a statement about Shane Jones' comments on Indian students and to call them loose and wrong?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: On behalf of the Prime Minister I am the leader of this Government and I'm not wrong in what I said."