Mark Ron: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMark Ron: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 22 September 2015. Volume:709;Page:6839. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]2.RON MARK (Deputy Leader—NZ First) to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his statements?Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister): Yes especially the statement when I said I am amazed New Zealand First did not get the memo that Labour and the Greens got.Ron Mark: Does he stand by his statement that his Government “is delivering on its commitment to help all New Zealanders get ahead”; if so why?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Yes.Ron Mark: How is he helping New Zealanders get ahead when he is bringing in 60000 new migrants a year at a rate of 1200 a week half of whom will settle in Auckland and all of whom will need a place to live?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Well firstly there are a great many Kiwis returning home from overseas. But interestingly enough we have free migration between New Zealand and Australia. The difference is that under a previous Labour Government 35000 people a year left for Australia; under a National Government in the last 5 months in a row more Australians have come to New Zealand. I count that as success.Ron Mark: How committed is he when an extra 26800 foreign students arrived in the past year at a rate of 500 a week many of whom move into work while over 27000 young Māori do not have a job?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: A great many students do come from overseas to study in New Zealand. It is worth billions of dollars. Actually if you go around the schools and universities and polytechs of New Zealand they are actually very grateful to have the opportunity to earn what they do collectively: well over $2 billion from export education.Ron Mark: Supplementary question—and ignoring the fact—Mr SPEAKER: Order! Just ask the supplementary question.Ron Mark: How committed is he when more and more jobseeker migrants arrive yet he has not created enough jobs in 7 years for New Zealanders—for example Northland’s unemployment rate has doubled to 8.6 percent in that same time? How committed is he?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Well for a start off there are more New Zealanders in work than there ever have been before. There were 68000 more jobs created in the last year alone. But one way to create more employment in Northland would be for the member for Northland to have an office up there so they can employ some people.Mr SPEAKER: Order! That is unnecessary to the answer.Ron Mark: For the Prime Minister’s benefit could I table the address of our electorate office in Auckland for him so he can find it. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member needs to start using the points of order procedure properly.Ron Mark: Given his statements on the flag referendum is he aware of the concerns of many of his own party regarding the terrible poll numbers for changing the flag and has Judith Collins thanked him personally for making her job of rolling him a lot easier?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: There is always a lot of interest in polls and there are always a lot of questions that get asked. But given the National Party is polling a touch above 47 percent in every poll that is out there when it comes to rolling the only thing that is happening on this side of the fence is rolling in the clover.Ron Mark: Given his statements on the flag referendum when will he accept that his vanity project is as dead as a dodo that beggar-all Kiwis want any of his tea towel designs that his silly panel has come up with and that he has essentially flushed $26 million down the dunny?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: It is fair to say I reject the proposition in the question.