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: 15 August 2012. Volume:682;Page:4382. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
5. 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
 to the  
Minister for Whanau Ora 
: What prompted the urgent review of the Whanau Ora Whanau Integration Innovation and Engagement (WIIE) fund when she is on record as having said in relation to the Mongrel Mob’s alleged use of WIIE funds “everything they have looked at shows the money was used for proper purposes.”? 
Hon TARIANA TURIA (Minister for Whanau Ora) 
: 
 The fact is that there has been no urgent review. This was business as usual because as one would expect with any new project the ministry has been undertaking regular reviews to ensure that the operations of Whanau Ora have been running well. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Why did it take so long to appoint an inquiry into New Zealand First’s repeated warnings of misuse of these funds and misuse of the expenditure? 
Hon TARIANA TURIA 
: Given that there are 33000 individuals of New Zealand descent participating in Whanau Ora we have had no reason to conduct a full review of the use of that funding. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Well given that every allegation thus far has been a coconut what confidence can the public possibly have in Te PuniKokiri’s review of Whanau Ora given that this is the very same agency handing out the money in the first place? 
Hon TARIANA TURIA 
: The only allegation that was identified was in fact identified by the police in Dunedin not by New Zealand First. Every other allegation that it has made has not been proven. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Is the Minister not aware of the circumstance of the Palmerston North women’s refuge and will she now seek an independent review by the Office of the Auditor-General to look into this fund and other Whanau Ora spending to ensure there is rigorous independent scrutiny; if not why not? 
Hon TARIANA TURIA 
: In regard to the Palmerston North women’s refuge when it was discovered that there were issues regarding its funding that particular funding was not given to it. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I asked about an independent review by the Auditor-General’s office not one— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! The member asked whether the Minister was not aware of the matters to do with the women’s refuge in Palmerston North. That was the first part of his question. The Minister answered that and she is not obliged to answer more than one part of a supplementary question. The member does have a further supplementary question should he wish to use it. 
Te Ururoa Flavell 
: Has she read reports in the  
New Zealand Herald 
 this week about Whanau Ora and does she agree with the newspaper that Whanau Ora has among other things helped to reduce expulsion rates at Ngaruawahia High School opened the doors to decent housing to whanau in Northland supported whanau of disabled people in Northland and instilled a sense of identity to whanau in the Waikato? 
Hon TARIANA TURIA 
: I think that what the  
New Zealand Herald 
’s stories do which have been told by the families concerned is say that of the 33000 people who are participating if there are any issues that have been highlighted they are minimal.