Peters Winston: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
Peters Winston: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
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2.  
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
 to the  
Prime Minister 
: Does she still have confidence in her Minister of Immigration and Minister of Health? 
Hon STEVE MAHAREY (Minister for Social Development and Employment) 
 
 on behalf of the 
 Prime Minister 
: Yes and yes. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: How can she have confidence in those two Ministers when neither of them knows what is going on within her portfolio with the Minister of Health producing separate figures for non - New Zealand and New Zealand - born people with tuberculosis that do not anywhere near add up to the number she gave for the total TB cases in New Zealand and the Minister of Immigration blaming everything on loopholes or her undying duty to United Nations conventions and individual rights even if that means allowing rapists murderers and abductors to stay in this country? 
Hon STEVE MAHAREY 
: I can only reiterate that the Prime Minister has confidence in both the Minister of Health and the Minister of Immigration. On the matter of tuberculosis for example the Minister has been very clear about the number of people in this country with tuberculosis who end up in a hospital and they are very very small in number. The Minister of Immigration has moved in every case to close all the loopholes that were left by that member. 
Heather Roy 
: Will the reductions in the cost of prescription medicines to a maximum of $3 for everyone enrolled to access primary health organisations and for under - 18-year-olds and interim primary health-care organisations which was widely announced by Annette King in the Budget happen from 1 October as promised yes or no; if no how can she have any confidence in that Minister? 
Hon STEVE MAHAREY 
: The Minister of Health of course is rolling out primary health organisations right across the country but I would need the member to put down that precise question so I can give a precise answer on the date. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Does the Prime Minister not understand that the gap between the non - New Zealand New Zealand - born and total numbers is hundreds of people—or do we have aliens living in this country all of a sudden—and that between them those two Ministers have no idea what the true statistics are nor any sense of responsibility as to how that is affecting the health of the New Zealand population in general? 
Hon STEVE MAHAREY 
: I am not aware of any aliens living in this country as raised by the member although there may be some in the House—we do not know. I say once again that the Prime Minister has full confidence in both the Minister of Health and the Minister of Immigration because both of them have been assiduous during the last 4 years in cleaning up the mess left by the previous Government which that member belonged to. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I think even the most mealy-mouthed supporter of the Labour Party realises that after 4 years it has to take responsibility. [ 
Interruption 
] 
Mr SPEAKER 
: I said there were to be no comments during points of order—none at all. Mr Peters is entitled to make his point of order in silence. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: The fact of the matter is that I am referring to a huge discrepancy between the figures released by Statistics New Zealand and those released by those Ministers. They cannot be reconciled. To then try to implicate me in respect of the outbreak of tuberculosis in this country is a disgrace and is palpably untrue. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: That is a very interesting debating point. It is not a point of order. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: I would like to table for the benefit of the giggling member who calls herself the Minister of Immigration and the rest of the House— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: What does the member wish to table? 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: I wish to table factual information that shows that apparently hundreds of people who have gone missing have got tuberculosis. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Leave is sought to table that document. Is there any objection? There is.