Shearer David: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Shearer David: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
[Sitting date: 28 February 2012. Volume:677;Page:572. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
3. 
DAVID SHEARER (Leader of the Opposition) 
 to the  
Prime Minister 
: Does he have confidence in all his Ministers? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister) 
: 
 Yes. 
David Shearer 
: Is he confident that Landcorp’s shareholding Ministers’ letter of expectation is being adhered to when Landcorp helped facilitate the sale of New Zealand land to foreigners? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: Yes. 
David Shearer 
: Were he or his Ministers aware that Landcorp had entered into a management agreement with Shanghai Pengxin in September last year? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: I was not but the Minister may have been. 
David Shearer 
: How can he have confidence in the Minister of Foreign Affairs when he is unavailable for comment on the restructure of his ministry unavailable for comment on the situation in Syria and unavailable for comment on his stolen emails which included comments about relations with China and the location of air force planes? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: I am glad the member is not playing gotcha politics as he has not got anyone yet. Here is Mr McCully’s statement on the restructure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Here is Mr McCully’s statement on Syria. Quite frankly the Minister comments where he believes it necessary. 
David Shearer 
: Is the Prime Minister showing us these statements because he is unaware of where Mr McCully might be? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: OK you got me; I don’t know where he is most of the time but that is just the way it goes. I do not have GPS on the bloke I do not follow him around the world and I do sign off on his overseas travel weeks before he goes. But he is Foreign Minister and I do expect him to be overseas an awful lot. 
David Shearer 
: Has he received— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! I apologise to the Leader of the Opposition. I must be able to hear the question; a little more reasonableness please.  
David Shearer 
: Has he received an assurance that there has been no security breach or revealing of items contrary to the national interest as a result of the hacking of Murray McCully’s emails; if so does he expect Murray McCully to give that assurance to New Zealand? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: What I have been advised is that the Minister’s personal account was used for that—for personal matters—and unclassified information was also sent to the account. 
David Shearer 
: How can he have confidence in the Minister of Finance when the Prime Minister has stated that one of the driving goals of his Government is to create an economy with more jobs and higher incomes yet his finance Minister says “A government can’t have a lot of impact on the job market. It is what it is.”? 
Rt Hon JOHN KEY 
: Well I I—[ 
Interruption 
] I will paraphrase the Minister of Finance. Well I was going to say that if the member wants to ask the Minister of Finance a specific question he should do that. But what I can say and what I assume the Minister of Finance was saying is this: actually what really makes the difference to an economy that has about 2.2 million or 2.3 million jobs in it is when you have the right policy settings that encourage people to invest and encourage people to take on work. Despite the worst global recession since the Great Depression we have created 62000 jobs in the last 2 years we have a situation where the unemployment rate is falling and we have a situation where we are one of the most highly rated countries in the world. Nothing I have seen from the Labour Party would do anything to support that position. If the member thinks I am wrong he should go back and look at Labour’s 1970s style of industrial relations policy that it campaigned on in 2011 and let us see whether that is one of the things he decides to reverse when he eventually does give a state of the nation speech. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Both sides of the House are fairly noisy today.