SpeechRt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Deputy Prime Minister): Like someone like someone who has just had an eye operation that member can see—and she sees a housing crisis. She doesn't of course refer to the 585 houses in the Wairarapa which they sold in a sweetheart deal to one of their mates for $20000 each—an absolute and utter scandal. She doesn't refer to the fact that we have the highest housing build ratio at the moment since 1973. No she's blind to all that and then blames of all people the Labour Party and dare I say it New Zealand First for not getting the Resource Management Act reformed. She had a majority and now she's blaming this side for nine years of total utter inertia and inaction. Now I'm not here to argue that. I'm here to call out a guy called Hamish Walker who when I left to go overseas just recently decided when I was gone that he would attack me. Now let me tell Junior from the Deep South" he made one serious mistake doing that because we don't attack people when they're not here. We usually have enough courage to do it when they are here. But no no—SPEAKER: We're not going to reflect on members' courage are we? Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: No I'm not going to do that no—not when he hadn't got any.SPEAKER: It sounded like the member was heading in that direction. I just wanted to cut him off at the pass.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: I was not going to take that detour. I just mentioned the fact that you should attack a member when he is here when he can respond. For example he took a piece of information from The AM Show which was itself based on a falsity and then said that I'd broken my word. Now when I was on The AM Show they mentioned the KiwiSaver legislation where foster children were concerned and they claimed that they had the legislation already drafted. And when I was on that show his amendment hadn't yet been submitted to the House—go and look at the chronology; hadn't even been submitted the House—so how could I have known about it? Do you see the fraud? Do you hear what I'm talking about? Well that's what he did.Now can I say he went on to then complain about us but he never mentioned for example that when there was the Child Youth and Family department in this country there were a large number of children that is foster children who were on KiwiSaver—a large number—until of course the National Party removed the $1000 kick-start payment in 2015. Where is this guy who deserves the "h" word now?Hon Member: What a disgrace.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: What a disgrace. There he is. There are hundreds on KiwiSaver as a result of the previous department and along comes National—so supportive of savings they remove their $1000 kick-start payment. And then he gets up here like some virtuous clown from the deep South and starts saying what a brilliant idea this is—what a brilliant idea this is. Now my word to him and Duncan Garner is: if you want to attack me you get your darn facts right. Don't just have me on the show claim that there's a piece of law which is there and it doesn't exist and say "You respond to that." Go and look at the chronology of when he tabled his Supplementary Order Paper—hours after I was on the show. You get my point here? Now I want some of these senior members here to show some leadership for a change show some principles show some standards. I know it's a bit hard for me to demand that of them but please don't think you're going to get away with this thoroughly disreputable behaviour—deceitful in the extreme. Now we all know that over there you've got a bunch of people who are all fighting amongst themselves. Guess why—because they haven't got a leader. They haven't got a leader. Gerry thinks he's a leader.SPEAKER: Order! Mr Brownlee.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: And we've got the guy from up Rodney. He thinks he's a leader. And then you've got all sorts of people putting their names forward. They can't even rate 1 percent in the polls but they still think they're leaders. They're fractious. They're falling apart. Brett Hudson: It's about New Zealand First.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Oh don't look at New Zealand First—or dare I say it this Government. This Government has got leaders. In fact it's got a whole lot of potential leaders. It's got talent and skill but over there you got all these tired old very old-looking people like Mr Smith—tired and old; use-by date gone decades ago decades ago. And then you've got "Myrtle Rust"—"Myrtle Rust" who's leading the charge and loses every battle.Hon Maggie Barry: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I take offence and exception to what that member has just described me as and would like an apology.SPEAKER: Well I have a problem here because there was a description used. No member was actually referred to.Hon Maggie Barry: Speaking to the point of order—SPEAKER: Well speaking to the point of order if—no I am going to say that this appears to be a reference to the member who has taken offence and I will ask the Deputy Prime Minister to withdraw. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: I withdraw and apologise. I really am so sorry that I've offended some person. I mean when you get—SPEAKER: Order! I'm going to ask the member to sit down to withdraw and—I didn't even require him to apologise. If he wants to he can. He will withdraw but then he won't comment on the ruling or on the matter any further. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: I withdraw. Can I get back to my subject matter though. Over there is this leaderless rabble and they've got a man called Simon Bridges who thinks he will follow the Crosby/Textor narrative and throw out a whole lot of fake news and he's going to win. I want these members to know right now that we're going to fight fire with fire we're going to fight water with water and we're going to drown out that deceit in the next few months as we go to the next election. Thank you very much."