Peters WinstonRt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Deputy Prime Minister): We have just been reminded that sleeping pills and Mogadon have a serious competitor. The competitor is Simon Bridges and if you are having sleepless nights out there in New Zealand give me a call and I'll send you a copy of the video of that speech. I guarantee it will work like lightning. He talked about a whopping great surplus. It can't be can it because his predecessor in finance was saying there was a $11.7 billion fiscal hole. He can't hold a commercial thought together for five minutes and he says We've got 10 studies out there and we've been doing all the work." Now doesn't it strike you as somewhat odd that you had nine years in Government to get the Resource Management Act (RMA) right but you decided to wait until you had no power and then you'd get it right. You know this is not even logical—I mean a kindergarten child could work that out. Here he is he's got all these things he's worked on in the RMA. They had nine long years did nothing and all of a sudden they have been seized with a sense of unction and urgency. First of all Mr Speaker I wish you and your staff a very happy Christmas. We extend season's greetings to all the parliamentary and ministerial staff the cleaners the caterers the maintenance and security staff the drivers the library and the Hansard staff as well as to the many office staff. Thank you and enjoy time relaxing with your families and friends over the festive season. To New Zealand First Ministers members of Parliament and both parliamentary and ministerial staff and around the provinces from Invercargill to Kaitāia thank you for your hard work. You deserve a great Christmas. When a year like this one comes to an end Parliament is duty-bound to consider what shaped it and there has been no shortage of tragedy. The deadly attack on 51 men women and children in Christchurch will be seared into our collective conscience for ever. Only last week White Island erupted taking so many lives. We had the Nelson fires in February and we had the bus crash in Rotorua in September killing five people. These events were all terrible reminders of how callous the world can be. These events as you know though have one lesson and they are a lesson in humanity and how meaningful leadership and cooperation can guide us through calamity. Our Prime Minister has exhibited just that. One cannot help but wonder if we could have processed these terrible tragedies with such grace if we were led by others. 2019 has been for New Zealand First a serious year of achievement—this is the great news that you've been waiting for over there—Hon Gerry Brownlee: Name three. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: —for a long time. Fletcher Tabuteau: Here we go—here we go. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Oh here we go—first in accountability. We were the party that announced in just the last 24 hours that a terrible helicopter crash after 10 years is going to be properly investigated—just like Operation Burnham. That's accountability. Pike River has finally been re-entered and it is now beyond 170 metres. We are well on the way to lifting our minimum wage to $20 an hour by 2020. Because of us more young people are getting free doctors visits today than ever before. On your second hand now start counting Mr Speaker—not Mr Speaker. What does he call himself over there? Oh I know a casino operator—a casino operator. Hon Gerry Brownlee: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. SPEAKER: A point of order the Hon Gerry Brownlee. Hon Gerry Brownlee: Thank you. You've covered it off for him. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Well I was going to refer to the—SPEAKER: Order! No the member will resume his seat. I just want to make it absolutely clear that we're not going to have that sort of facetious point of order going forward. I—Hon Gerry Brownlee: Well commentary—the Standing Orders allows it. SPEAKER: Order! And I'm not going to have interjection while I'm on my feet from the person who should know more than anyone else that it should not occur. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: What I was saying was that you're on to your second hand now for the counting and sooner or later it'll have to be socks off for 11 12 13 to 14. Our defence force are doing so much humanitarian work as well as their usual responsibilities and are at last being funded properly. We have surpassed the target of training of 800 new front-line police already in just on two years. The Minister of Police can take a lot of pride in that. Today in foreign affairs and aid New Zealand has a new respect and that's a fact. Go to the Pacific go to Japan go to Indonesia go to the United States and—dare I say it—go to the UK where we are walking into an environment where we've got friends. Why? Because we had the presence of mind years ago to see who was going to order the world next—not like them. They followed every bit of advice and have got no idea what they're talking about and who have a leader who called the new Prime Minister the renewed Prime Minister of the UK—he called him a buffoon. [Interruption] Yeah that's what he called him. Then he gets published in the New Zealand Herald advising us on how to get a free-trade agreement with the UK. Hon Simon Bridges: One all. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Your paper coverage my friend is stupid and so is he. Unbelievably naive. Hon Simon Bridges: Oh don't say that about Boris Johnson. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: No no I'm saying that about you sunshine. I'm saying it about you. The Provincial Growth Fund is transforming New Zealand. There's real hope in the provinces and out there from Invercargill to Kaitāia they are saying "Thank heaven for certain politicians in Wellington. We are no longer being neglected and no longer being forgotten." I find it so difficult when I go to these Provincial Growth Fund meetings and announcements because I have to fight my way through rural National Party members trying to get there first and all their supporters. They're trying to get the sort of halo effect from positive Government. Can I just say—Hon Dr Nick Smith: Tell us about your foundation. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Oh I'm getting to the foundation very shortly—oh yeah—but I'm not going to take too much time. Like a famous guy in Australia said I'm going to stew you slowly son—I'm going to stew you slowly. You are not getting away with this any more. This is a guy—I mean I want to ask those backbenchers over there: do they really think that that's what they want from the front bench of the National Party? Oh yeah you know what I'm saying don't you? Deep in your heart you know you can't get home with him. Now look I can help. Look I could help you. You know I was playing a song for a radio today and they said "What's your favourite song for the National Party?" and I said "I can't help but saying that there's a song by Joan Armatrading called 'Drop the Pilot'." Do you know how it sounds? If you get a chance listen to it. It comes to a theme and I'd really recommend it to you. Could I just say that the Climate Change Commission was launched and 33000 rural farming stakeholders now know that help's on its way and that they can transition that they can make a profit that they will be sustainable and that they will be world leaders. Oh yes one guy over there one guy there—Mr Muller—knows it. But all the rest know that they're back-stabbing around the back door all the way. But one guy that should be in the leadership of the National Party these days—Mr Muller—is showing responsibility showing forward vision. Oh no no no. No he's got somebody at the front there. He's got somebody at the front there who's never been in business for five seconds. He's never operated a business for five seconds and he thinks he understands business—unbelievable. Can I just say that the Global Compact for Migration which the National Party signed up to but which then became directed by neo-Nazis in Austria has not seen the result they said. Can I say that I want to turn my attention to the National Party and ask Mr Brownlee this: where is the report on bullying with the National Party? When will the Serious Fraud Office report on the National Party's electoral donations? When will we hear about the $100000 receipted by National as one sum and then split up later? When are we going to hear the answer to that?Can I also ask is it clear that Mr Bridges is facing or not facing a problem with his party's leadership now? I see it—very very clear.Hon Simon Bridges: Count to 10.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: Oh no. I can count to more than 10. Can I just say: when will we hear about that $160000 arranged from offshore and funnelled through a shell company in New Zealand into the National Party? When are we going to hear that? Can I just say one thing. Mr Brownlee made a speech recently and being the rather simple-minded person he is he actually dropped them in it. He said that they were living off the National Party's interests not the donations and not the capital; just the interest. And he's going to say that the capital and interest is different where electoral law's concerned. He was so silly he dropped them in it because they have tens and tens and tens of millions which they've got in their fund.And Mr Nick Smith can I just say very very clearly: why would people allow that man to go out there and launch his attack lead this attack? There's a guy for example that hates Winston Peters. Guess why? Because on 12 March 2012 in a 4½ minute speech I finished his then ministerial career.Hon Member: Did too.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: I did in a 4½ minute speech and Mr Smith what I've done before I can do it again and you make very sure: I'm on it. Tell your pariahs up there in the gallery that write your rubbish that next year we're coming for you. And guess what? We're coming for other people here because the New Zealand First Party has obeyed the law and the National Party has not. The National Party has not. I can tell you we have got new information about the National Party fundraising. We have new information about National Party fund-raising. [Interruption] And Mr Bidois if you knew what you were talking about I would advise you: I'd hold my nose keep quiet and hope by hell it doesn't get to you.But last of all can I say to my friends in the Government all parties in Government that you all deserve a great Christmas holiday. Next year we'll be back and winning is our specialty."