Peters Winston: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Peters Winston: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
[Sitting date: 12 December 2012. Volume:686;Page:7462. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
7. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
 to the  
Prime Minister 
: Why does he have confidence in the Minister for Whanau Ora? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister) 
: 
 Because she is a hard-working Minister who is committed to improving outcomes for vulnerable families in New Zealand. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: How can he have confidence in a Minister who allowed the Mongrel Mob to receive $20000 of taxpayers’ money? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: My understanding is that in terms of that the funding largely came from another area and on that basis the belief was that it would do good improvement. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Does he share the Minister’s view in respect of the Mongrel Mob receiving $20000 from the taxpayers that “Had they utilised the funding to pay wages to themselves then there would have been no issue in terms of the use of the money.”? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: It would depend on how the money is applied and what that is for. I mean it is technically possible for people in that situation to be applying it to a programme but it would depend on how it works. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Is he aware that on numerous occasions this year—at least 18 occasions in fact—Mrs Turia in her ministerial capacity chose not to turn up to meetings at which the media were present to deliver speeches and instead relied upon others to read out her speeches for her and does he believe this to be an appropriate sort of behaviour for a Minister of the Crown? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: No I am not aware what meetings Ministers actually attend or not. If you want to have detailed answers about that you are better to put the question down to the Minister herself. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: No I am asking you. Does it concern him that 25 percent of all Whanau Ora applicants who have received funding in the past year have been from the Minister’s own electorate despite that electorate being only 8 percent of the Maori population; if not why not? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: I do not have those details in front of me. If you want to get detailed answers put the question down to the Minister. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Question No.— 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Supplementary question. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! I believe—[ 
Interruption 
] Order! I am just checking on—[ 
Interruption 
] Order! I apologise to the right honourable gentleman but the member has already had five supplementary questions. He may recollect that he used one on question No. 6 and has had four on question No. 7 and I believe that does add up to five. Question No. 8 Kris Faafoi— 
Te Ururoa Flavell 
: Supplementary. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! I cannot hear members call if there is too much noise. 
Te Ururoa Flavell 
: Tena koe Mr Speaker. Does the Prime Minister agree with the comments in the report  
Solutions to Child Poverty in New Zealand: Evidence for Action  
that “There was support for the continuation and expansion of the Whanau Ora approach to empower families and children to identify goals and progress towards them.” and secondly that “The analysis indicated that the learning from this way of working could be applied across government and community to reduce child poverty and mitigate its effects.” and what confidence do such comments give him in his support for this flagship policy? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: Yes. Families from across the country had previously been receiving help from Government agencies for a range of issues but too often that help simply has not been getting good results. Whanau Ora forms a key part of the Government’s efforts to break the cycle of dependency and dysfunction that blights too many of our families.