Robertson Grant: Urgent Debates — Hon Peter Dunne—Report on Investigation of Review of Compliance Leak and Resignation as MinisterText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRobertson Grant: Urgent Debates — Hon Peter Dunne—Report on Investigation of Review of Compliance Leak and Resignation as Minister[Sitting date: 11 June 2013. Volume:691;Page:10931. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]GRANT ROBERTSON (Deputy Leader—Labour):I presume that Judith Collins will be down shortly because she knows that the National Party leadership is within her grasp after that speech from Steven Joyce. He tried to tell us that throughout this episode John Key has shown what high standards he has. His standards are so high that he still cannot say today who leaked the Kitteridge report. He set up an inquiry—Hon Dr Nick Smith: Can the member?GRANT ROBERTSON: —to find out who leaked the Kitteridge report and as we stand here today—Nick Smith who leaked the Kitteridge report?Hon Dr Nick Smith: You tell me.GRANT ROBERTSON: Who leaked the Kitteridge report? I am not in the Government Dr Smith. John Key is the Prime Minister he set the inquiry up and he is the person who should be able to tell New Zealanders who leaked the Kitteridge report. The obvious conclusion that New Zealanders can draw is that John Key does not really want to know. John Key does not want to know because if he finds out and if New Zealanders find out the truth—which they deserve to know here—that puts the stability of his Government at risk.Political expediency is what is at play here because John Banks and Peter Dunne are the reason that National can pass legislation like that concerning the Skycity deal and the sale of State assets. It is those two votes. John Key has a record of wilful blindness to the actions of his support parties and Ministers. He is the person who would not even read the police report on John Banks so that he did not have to know that John Banks had lied to him. That is why he did not read the report. Now he will not actually get to the bottom of who leaked the Kitteridge report because he does not want to see his other support party go out of Parliament.That is what is at play here. What this is about is a Government that is tawdry that is held together by tawdry deals and that acts not in the interests of New Zealanders but in its own self-interest. And it is John Key’s self-interest that has fundamentally driven his approach to this. We have seen it with the Skycity deal and we have seen it with appointments like those of Jackie Blue and Susan Devoy. Process means nothing to this Government. Process means nothing to this Government and the rule of law means nothing to this Government. This Government will drive issues through this Parliament against the interests of New Zealand and in its own vested interests. What this report and what this decision are about is that having set up an inquiry to find out who leaked the Kitteridge report John Key cannot tell New Zealanders the answer to that today. He wants the matter to end there and that is not good enough. That is what this is about.I want to say what it is not about. It is not about National adopting its usual divert and diminish tactics. That is what is going on here. Phil Goff was the recipient of a leak. He did not leak—Hon Dr Jonathan Coleman: You don’t have to defend him Grant.GRANT ROBERTSON: —Jonathan Coleman—Phil Goff was the recipient of a leak. Peter Dunne leaked the document. That is the difference. It is a very very clear difference. As Mr Dunne said at his press conference he still denies that he leaked the report. Jonathan Coleman cannot tell me who leaked the report. Peter Dunne still denies it. If Peter Dunne wanted to give David Henry his end of the emails to show that he did not leak the report he could have done that. He could have done that in confidence but he did not.Having set this inquiry up John Key owes it to New Zealanders to get to the truth but once again John Key is letting New Zealanders down. He came into office telling New Zealanders that there would be higher standards and telling New Zealanders that he would hold his Government to higher standards and the opposite has happened. What we have seen from this Government is scandal after scandal and deal after deal where this Government does not have high standards. It has some of the lowest standards it is possible to see.I will tell you what this is also not about. Bill English stood up and said that this Government and this Prime Minister take national security seriously. No he does not because the way the Government Communications Security Bureau and national security issues have been run under this Government is appalling. John Key is the person who having been told that there was illegal spying going on sat on that information for months. John Key is the person who has covered up and misled around the Kim Dotcom case. And now John Key is the person who cannot be bothered getting to the truth of a national security issue—the leak of a highly sensitive document—because in all of these cases it would expose his self-interest and it would ensure that the interests of New Zealanders went ahead of John Key’s interests. That is what we know about this Prime Minister that the interests of New Zealanders are gone. The great promises from when he came into office are gone. John Key is now governing solely in his own interests and those of the vested interests that support him. He does this propped up by discredited members. He is propped up by John Banks who is in court and we have heard in Parliament the reasons why that is. The reason why that is is that he has not told the truth about donations he got. Now John Key is propped up by Peter Dunne and that is the reason why New Zealanders currently do not know who leaked the Kitteridge report. The convenient situation John Key has created for himself is “Don’t ask don’t tell.” If John Key actually asked the questions he is responsible for asking then he would have his Government in trouble. He would have the loss of a coalition partner. That is what is going on here.National likes to say that it is Winston Peters’ job to release the emails and that Labour is doing terrible things by referring this issue to the Privileges Committee. None of that is relevant to this. John Key set the inquiry up it is his Government and it is the leak—it seems—by a Minister in his Government that is at issue here. He is the one who is responsible. National’s divert and diminish strategy—that the report was going to be released anyway and that it is Winston Peters’ fault—is typical of the way this Government operates: dodgily. It follows that up with a divert and diminish and then demean strategy with the personal attacks coming out from John Key. That is not good enough. That is not good enough for New Zealanders who expect more of their Government. This Government is so out of touch with New Zealanders and so mired in scandals and deals that it is unable to govern in the interests of New Zealanders. It is left governing in its own vested interests. That is a huge letdown for those New Zealanderswho put their trust and confidence in this National Government. What they are left with is a tawdry Government propped up by support party leaders who are discredited and disgraced. That is what New Zealanders are left with.This Government and the way that it goes about its business have now become the subject of ridicule. We are here again in an urgent debate in the House having to deal with a scandal from this Government—an incomplete report because the Prime Minister does not want to know the real answers. For all of the diversion and diminishing from this Government that will go on over the coming days the truth is that it is the one that has to answer. John Key has to answer that critical question of who leaked the report. He set the inquiry up and he is the person who said it was serious enough to undertake this inquiry but when he gets to the point where it looks like it is his support party that is in the gun he pulls up and says that there is nothing to see here any more. That is not acceptable. New Zealanders deserve the truth from this Government they deserve to have this inquiry completed and the only conclusion that New Zealanders are left to draw is that once again John Key has put his own interests and the vested interests that support him ahead of New Zealanders’ interests their right to the truth and their right to a transparent Government. That is the legacy of the John Key - led Government: ride roughshod over process mislead obfuscate divert diminish and hope that it will all go away. It will not go away because New Zealanders need to know the truth and John Key will be held to account for this tawdry Government that he leads.