7. Todd Barclay—Employment Dispute Settlement and Prime Ministerial InvolvementRt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) to the Prime MinisterTodd Barclay—Employment Dispute Settlement and Prime Ministerial Involvement7. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his statements on the Todd Barclay matter; if so how does he credibly do that?Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH (Prime Minister): I think the member may know how I am going to answer this question. Yes; because I said them.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Did he use taxpayer resources to undermine the Clutha-Southland MP Todd Barclay's operations as that electorate's MP?Mr SPEAKER: Again in so far as there may be prime ministerial responsibility—the Right Honourable Prime Minister.Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: Of course not.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Is he subject to any confidentiality agreement about what he can say about the Todd Barclay matter including hundreds of related texts from a phone paid for by the taxpayer?Mr SPEAKER: Again in so far as there may be prime ministerial responsibility—the Right Honourable Prime Minister.Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: I was not a party to the settlement of this employment dispute so I am not bound by the confidentiality of it but the people involved with it are.Rt Hon Winston Peters: [Interruption] Oh no we have got him—just be patient. Why does he claim not to have any knowledge about the employment settlement agreement involving Glenys Dickson and repetitively deny that he had any involvement in its preparation when these denials are evidentially plain false?Mr SPEAKER: Again in so far as there is prime ministerial responsibility—the Right Honourable Prime Minister.Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: It is quite right I have no ministerial responsibility for it. All the relevant material has been in the public for some months and the member seems to have found some of it lately. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! We will have the supplementary question.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Can he confirm that the deployment of ministerial limos for him when in Clutha-Southland in 2015 involved proper ministerial reasons and not other reasons?Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: Unfortunately I do not get to Southland as much as I would like but it is still more often than the member finds time to go to Northland.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. Seeing as you have predicated every answer by saying where there is any prime ministerial responsibility"—since you have predicated every answer with that warning why do you allow him to get away with that false lie?Mr SPEAKER: Order! If the member would like—[Interruption] Order! If the member would like to look at Hansard afterwards he will see that I did not start every answer with that particular comment and on the last one I did not. But I am unable to help the Minister because I look at the generality of the first question asked the primary question to get into the detail the member is wanting in the supplementary question. I consider that the question has been addressed. Supplementary question—the Rt Hon Winston Peters. Rt Hon Winston Peters: Yeah well here is the real question for you sunshine.Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member will resume his seat. I do acknowledge he is responding to interjections that are not helpful. Would the member now proceed with his supplementary question.Rt Hon Winston Peters: If it is proven that contrary to his denials he had substantial knowledge of the confidential agreement involving Glenys Dickson and was involved in its preparation as to terms and conditions contrary to what he has been telling the media and Parliament then in the event of such proof what will he do to hold himself accountable?Rt Hon BILL ENGLISH: All the statements I have made about it are correct and the relevant material has been in the public arena for some time. I can assure the member I was no part of the agreement."