Tabuteau Fletcher: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTabuteau Fletcher: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 15 September 2015. Volume:708;Page:6585. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]3.FLETCHER TABUTEAU (NZ First) to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his statements?Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister): Yes.Fletcher Tabuteau: Why did his Government reject an invitation from Silver Fern Farms within the past year to discuss potential investment?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I do not have any details of where that invitation was sent. The member needs to direct the question to the Minister who received it.Fletcher Tabuteau: Can he not see the irony of taxpayers forking out $145 million to the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank while a Chinese State-owned enterprise seeks control of our largest beef exporter and our second-largest export industry?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: New Zealand has made a capital contribution to the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank like we do to the World Bank and others—it is on call—and actually it can be used for projects around the region that New Zealand companies may well be involved in. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: That is the sort of interjection I was talking about earlier. If the member on my right-hand side wants to be going early I can assist.Richard Prosser: What material difference in circumstances supports his statement “it’s not really a matter for the Government” in relation to taxpayer support for Silver Fern Farms as opposed to his Government’s corporate welfare given to overseas-owned MediaWorks which received a $49.8 million taxpayer loan which the Minister Amy Adams said “took the financial pressure”—Mr SPEAKER: Again that question is too long. The member needs to refine it. The Prime Minister can answer.Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Firstly Silver Fern Farms is not asking the Government for money. It is in the process of looking to obviously raise more capital and one of the interested parties clearly has been a Chinese entity. In relation to MediaWorks I happen to remember that some time ago that was done to a range of entities. It was to allow them during the global financial crisis for all of those licence holders to basically pay over time their licences at above commercial rates and the Government actually made money on the deal.Richard Prosser: What material difference in circumstances supports his statement “it’s not really a matter for the Government” in relation to taxpayers’ support for Silver Fern Farms as opposed to what some commentators have described as his Government’s treasonous $12 million bribe to a Saudi billionaire to support a farm we do not even own?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: In the first instance as I said earlier when it comes to Silver Fern Farms it is not asking the Government for money. When it comes to the agribusiness hub in Saudi Arabia we see that as an opportunity actually to potentially strengthen and further opportunities for New Zealand companies in the very big market of the Middle East.Fletcher Tabuteau: I seek leave to table a written answer received only today confirming that Mr English declined an invitation from Silver Fern—Mr SPEAKER: Order! Can I just clarify that when the member says he has received it today is the member saying it has not yet been published?Fletcher Tabuteau: That is correct.Mr SPEAKER: Then I will put the leave. Leave is sought to table that particular answer. Is there any objection? There is none. It can be tabled.Document by leave laid on the Table of the House.