Mallard Trevor: General Debate 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Mallard Trevor: General Debate 
[Sitting date: 05 December 2012. Volume:686;Page:7149. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
Hon TREVOR MALLARD (Labour—Hutt South) 
: 
 That was the Minister whom the Prime Minister has found the most disappointing this year. He is the Minister in charge of the asset sales programme that was meant to occur and which has collapsed and the Prime Minister finds his work disappointing. 
I want to make a passing comment about Peter Kiely. I have known Peter Kiely for only 25 years. We have travelled together. We were both once people of promise according to the United States Government and he has been a person who has in the past I think acted with integrity. If what appears to be the case is the case then I think that John Key the chair of the Cabinet appointments and honours committee and Murray McCully who nominated Mr Kiely are in very serious trouble. What appears to be the case is that Mr Kiely has breached a number of laws as well as a number of conventions. 
I decided today to make a list of things that had gone wrong for the Government this year. Members know that normally when I make a 5-minute speech I have about four words on the back of one envelope. I got on to three envelopes today. I got on to three envelopes trying to make a list and that is not good when it is a 5-minute speech. Well it is not the brown envelopes of the sort that John Banks collects full of cash and then forgets. It is not the sorts of brown envelopes that he got from Dotcom or Skycity. It is not the sorts of cash for pokies arrangements that Steven Joyce enters into. Those are just two of the things that have occurred this year. 
If I was the Prime Minister and was being disappointed I would be disappointed about the level of unemployment. It has reached the same level as 13 years ago. It has reached a level that I personally thought it would never reach again. Any coherent Government could have stopped it reaching that level if it decided to make employment a priority. We have had the Prime Minister saying: “I will not remember.” He will not remember the details of the briefings he got from his spy agencies. He will not remember the fact that he had a massive German with giraffes in his front lawn sitting in his own electorate. He will not read the police file the police case that everyone else has read that shows that John Banks is a liar. He has a Minister who has lied this year. John Banks— 
Michael Woodhouse 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I realise that it is not possible for someone to take offence on behalf of another but I think there were a number of Speakers’ rulings breached by the accusations made by the member and he should withdraw them. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Well the member was actually pretty careful with what he said. The member did not accuse any member of the House of being a liar. He spoke of evidence that indicated someone had been a liar and that is different from a straight-out accusation. But if the member takes the next step and accuses a member directly of being a liar then he will be asked to withdraw and apologise for that. He needs to be a little careful because it is skating on the edge. 
Hon TREVOR MALLARD 
: The Prime Minister has refused to read the evidence that shows that his Minister Banks lied to the chief of staff. The Prime Minister refused to do that. We will arrange to put it on a podcast so that he can listen to it in the gym if he wants to but the Prime Minister does not want to know about the evidence that shows that he has a liar someone who has lied the evidence that shows— 
Michael Woodhouse 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I do not want to debate the facts of the report that the member is quoting but the report does not say that. The only inference that can be drawn from the member’s contribution is the direct one which is in breach of the Standing Orders. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: The member makes a fair point too that I am sure the evidence does not use that word and the member has to be careful now as he interpolates from the evidence that he has been talking about. He must be careful. It is going to lead to disorder if members basically accuse other members of being liars. The member needs to be careful. 
Hon TREVOR MALLARD 
: I am happy to move on. Let us move on to other matters. Let us go along to the ACC leaks the breaches of privacy. Remember at the beginning of the year that Bronwyn Pullar was a hero that she was being acclaimed by the Prime Minister? What are they saying about her now? Remember about the Inland Revenue leaks the Work and Income leaks and the Novopay leaks? 
How about considering education? I think education can be summarised this year as the Ministers did not read the papers. They did not read their papers on Novopay. Neither Foss nor Parata read the papers before they signed it off. The Minister did not read her papers to do with Christchurch before she approved the mergers and the closures of the schools down there. She did not read her papers about class sizes and she was forced to do a U-turn. So what do we have in education? We have chaos from Ministers who should not hold warrants.