Williams Andrew: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeWilliams Andrew: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 10 April 2013. Volume:689;Page:9197. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]1.ANDREW WILLIAMS (NZ First) to thePrime Minister: Has he ever met with representatives of the Motion Picture Association of America; if so when?Hon BILL ENGLISH (Acting Prime Minister): Yes the Prime Minister spoke briefly with the chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America during a private dinner hosted by James Cameron and Jon Landau in Los Angeles on 3 October last year where his discussions focused on promotion of New Zealand as a location for film and television productions. Kim Dotcom was mentioned in passing. He also had a chance meeting with the executive director of the New Zealand Federation Against Copyright Theft in a Koru lounge in May 2011. It was a brief conversation about the implementation of the Copyright Amendment Bill.Andrew Williams: Is it therefore a fact that he met with Kevin Tsujihara president of Warner Bros and a director of the Motion Picture Association of America in October 2010 as part of theHobbit movie talks?Hon BILL ENGLISH: I do not have that specific information here with me. My colleague Gerry Brownlee was a party to those talks. The Prime Minister took part on occasion. I cannot tell the member whether the Prime Minister actually met that person.Chris Hipkins: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I have just been told that the Minister’s microphone cannot be heard on the television so anybody who is listening in on these proceedings in public cannot actually hear anything. They can hear the Opposition but they cannot hear anything the Minister is saying.Mr SPEAKER: We will have the microphone checked. In the meantime we will carry on.Andrew Williams: Is he aware that Mr Tsujihara was in charge of Warner Bros’ anti-piracy efforts?Hon BILL ENGLISH: Again I do not have those facts in front of me but I will take the member at his word.Andrew Williams: Can he confirm whether or not Mr Tsujihara has ever discussed with him the Dotcom case?Hon BILL ENGLISH: No I cannot confirm that.Andrew Williams: Is it not a fact that the Security Intelligence Service hold on Kim Dotcom’s residence application was lifted on 28 October 2010 1 day after the Prime Minister’s meetings with Mr Tsujihara on 26 and 27 October 2010 as has also been confirmed by Mr David Fisher of theNew Zealand Herald?Hon BILL ENGLISH: No I cannot confirm that. Although I took the member’s assertion of facts and took the member’s word on his previous question I would be a bit less inclined to believe this.Andrew Williams: Given this incredible set of coincidences that led up to Dotcom’s arrest does the Prime Minister still stand by his statement that he did not know about Kim Dotcom prior to 19 January 2012 the day before the raid on Dotcom’s mansion—in his own electorate—and when will he come clean about the true extent of his knowledge of the Dotcom case?Hon BILL ENGLISH: The Prime Minister stands by all his statements on that matter.Andrew Williams: Point of order—[Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! There is a point of order. It will be heard in silence.Andrew Williams: I seek leave to table a time line document sourced from Official Information Act letters to the Prime Minister’s office prepared by our research department detailing all the dates in 2010 2011 and 2012 that the Prime Minister had meetings—Mr SPEAKER: OK. That is enough—that is enough detail for the House to make a decision. Leave is sought to table that document. Is there any objection? There appears to be none. It can be tabled.Document by leave laid on the Table of the House.Andrew Williams: I seek leave to also table an official biography of Mr Kevin Tsujihara—Mr SPEAKER: Sourced?Andrew Williams: —provided by Warner Bros which confirms he is a director of the Motion Picture Association of America—provided by Warner Bros.Mr SPEAKER: Leave is sought to table such a biography. Is there any objection? Yes there is.