Finlayson ChristopherHon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (National): I find Labour's ongoing obsession with Judith Collins rather odd and I'll leave it at that. Can I begin by congratulating four young rangatahi of Ngāpuhi—Mr Henare may know them—Maia-Dean Martin Atawhai Martin Isaiah Kaiawe and Purotu Martin who performed so brilliantly at the secondary school chamber music competition last Saturday. They are outstanding and I hope to get them down here to Parliament so that everyone can see how good they are. I just think it's a shame that no Labour Party people were present. I was there. I can out-lovey the Labour Party on the arts any day. They talk the talk but it would have been nice if someone had been there to support those four outstanding young folk from Ngāpuhi. I say this to the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations: it shows why we need to have a settlement in Ngāphui because these are the kids who deserve the scholarships and the opportunities.I also want to congratulate Tracey Martin this afternoon on her stellar performance in question time because it shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that not only is this Government incompetent on the big issues they're incompetent even on the easy ones. Now in all my time in Cabinet I was never once Minister of Internal Affairs but I looked after quite a number of inquiries from the whey protein inquiry the two royal commissions into Christchurch and Pike River and more recently the water problem in Havelock North. I don't wish to be vain but I have to say—oh I'll be vain then—it was dead easy. It's not hard to appoint a good chair to make sure the process goes clearly and expeditiously and a report comes out but Tracey Martin has shown that even such a straightforward exercise is totally and utterly beyond her. Heaven forbid what she does in her other portfolios but really this is not hard stuff. Other Ministers of various administrations have done it. It's pretty easy and she shows that even the easiest tasks are impossible for someone of her calibre.There is one issue that's incredibly important and that is freedom of expression—the ability to have your view. We talk about it time and time again in this House and it's why this party is taking such a strong line on the electoral integrity legislation. But I want to commend the Prime Minister for her statement recently condemning the overreaction by the vice-chancellor of Massey to the speech that was to be given by Dr Brash because what she said was quite right. I think it behoves every party in this Parliament to make sure that the contagion which has spread to United States universities and has shut down the ability of people to express an opinion on a subject doesn't extend to New Zealand.I've read the speech of Dr Brash which appeared in the New Zealand Herald yesterday. Look for a person who's a paid-up and founding member of Hobson's Pledge it didn't seem to me to be too extreme. He had a go at me over Treaty settlements but he's been having a go at me over Treaty settlements since 2008. But I'd much rather that people like Dr Brash got out there and said in the politics club at Massey and other such places what they think on a variety of issues rather than have the vice-chancellor of Massey University shut down the free exchange of ideas.I can tell the House this: I had my disagreements over the years with Mr Maharey but I bet he would not have done it because he as a son of the House of Representatives knows the importance of free speech and knows that that is one of the most cherished things that we have in this country. The best way of challenging a particular view on a subject is to hear that view and then engage in the debate with the same ferocity and intelligence that you'd hope comes from the other side. So I'm very very disappointed that Massey University have operated in the way that they have and I call on the chancellor and the council of Massey University to have a little heart-to-heart with the vice-chancellor and say to her that this is not the way we do things in New Zealand that we cherish freedom of expression and that we cherish free speech. Engage in the debate; don't shut it down.