Peters Winston: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
Peters Winston: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers 
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6.  
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
 to the  
Minister of Immigration 
: What are the requirements for a person to qualify for residency under the employees of relocating businesses category and is he satisfied that this policy is working in the interests of New Zealanders? 
Hon PAUL SWAIN (Minister of Immigration) 
: 
 The main requirements for the employees of relocating businesses category are that the applicant must be a key employee of a business that is relocating to New Zealand and that the relocation of the business must be supported by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise. The policy intent of this is to work in the interests of New Zealanders. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: What investigations did the New Zealand Immigration Service undertake when it allowed the residency approval of a Mr Jim Peron the director and establisher of the Institute for Liberal Values who set up an Auckland porn shop under the guise of a bookshop; and did the investigations reveal Mr Peron’s links with the North American Man/Boy Love Association known as “NAMBLA”? 
Hon PAUL SWAIN 
: I am not aware of the full extent of the investigations that the Immigration Service would have made. Clearly investigations would have had to be made as part of any approval process under the immigration system. I would happy to make further investigations on the member’s behalf and get back to him when the information is available. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Does the Minister agree that allowing people to enter New Zealand under a business category that enables them to use New Zealand as a platform to promote their extreme political propaganda and contaminate minds with explicit pornography is of no benefit to New Zealand whatsoever and further puts our children in grave danger of sexual predators; if not why not? 
Hon PAUL SWAIN 
: If a person wanted to come to New Zealand and was guilty of the things the member said that would not be acceptable to New Zealand or to New Zealanders. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Was the Minister aware that this same individual had his work visa cancelled in South Africa supposedly a Third World country because of the dubious nature of his business activities; and why would New Zealand supposedly a First World country allow this man to run a bookshop and pornography outlet in Auckland notwithstanding that this paedophile’s sponsorship form was endorsed by a member of this Parliament? 
Hon PAUL SWAIN 
: I am not aware of all those facts as the member has portrayed them. I am keen to make further investigation but obviously it would be of concern if a member of Parliament knew all that information about someone and continued to promote that person’s gaining access to New Zealand. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: I seek leave to table several documents: firstly an email linking a member of this Parliament who was actively working on Mr Peron’s application to enter the country; secondly a website for the Institute of Liberal Values of which a member of Parliament is a member; thirdly Mr Peron’s declined application to the Residence Appeal Authority including the parts where he lied about the true nature of his business activities; and fourthly an email linking Mr Peron with the North American Man/Boy Love Association. 
Documents by leave laid on the Table of the House. 
Rodney Hide 
: I raise a point of order Madam Speaker. Just so there is no doubt I think the member is referring to me. I want to make it plain to this House that— 
Madam SPEAKER 
: Mr Hide are you requesting leave to make a personal explanation? 
Rodney Hide 
: I am seeking your guidance. 
Madam SPEAKER 
: I suggest you seek leave to make a personal explanation. 
Rodney Hide 
: I am raising a point of order to seek your guidance first. 
Madam SPEAKER 
: I need to know whether that is what you are doing before I can rule on the point of order; otherwise you are out of order. 
Rodney Hide 
: I raise a point of order Madam Speaker. My point of order is a request for your advice on what to do when a homophobic member of Parliament attacks someone simply because that person happens to be a friend of an MP. This man runs a legitimate bookshop—and this has been investigated by journalists—and the allegations against him have been found to be without foundation. Jim Peron has turned up at the National Party conference and sold books and he has turned up at the ACT party conference and sold books. He is an upright New Zealander and I consider it to be an outrage that people are trying to score cheap political points by attacking someone simply because he is gay. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: In no way was that a point of order. Worst still Mr Hide made an allegation about me that should have been stopped at the time he made it. However it gives me the opportunity to say that the ACT party which claims to have a paedophile list has left one of its main friends off it. 
Madam SPEAKER 
: Having listened to the points of order I say that that was not a point of order.