Peters Winston: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 08 September 2015. Volume:708;Page:6304. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]9.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) to the Minister for Māori Development: Does he stand by all his statements?Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON (Associate Minister for Māori Development) on behalf of theMinister for Māori Development: On behalf of the Minister for Māori Development yes.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Supplementary question for the man who always gets the words perfect—Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member will resume his seat. My patience will not last too much longer with the member. Rise and ask a supplementary question in line with the Standing Orders.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. It was for you to make that correction not him. That is why I pointed it out to him.Mr SPEAKER: Order! I will give the member one more chance—but it will be brief—to rise and ask his supplementary questions.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Does he stand by his statement yesterday: “ ‘we’ve got the platform right’ I think we are in the right space.”; if so why?Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON: Yes.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Does he think it is fair to say that he commissioned a report costing taxpayers over $20000 to defend his position that Whānau Ora is producing results despite that report not containing any hard data—which the Prime Minister admitted yesterday?Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON: This is hopeless. That is a question that should be directed to the Minister for Whānau Ora.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Can I ask the Minister for Māori Development as to whether he will ensure next time that if he cannot answer the question he gets someone proficient to do the job rather than come down here and act like a clown?Mr SPEAKER: I will invite—[Interruption] Order! I will invite the Minister to answer it if he so wishes.Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON: I will if he promises not to have late nights at the Green Parrot before formulating his questions.Mr SPEAKER: Order!Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker.Mr SPEAKER: Order! Will the member please resume his seat. The member is calling a point of order and I will hear it but before I do hear it I just want to say that if the member asks a supplementary question like that he can anticipate he will get an answer like he did get. Does the member want to raise a point of order?Rt Hon Winston Peters: My point of order is very simple. That sort of answer is likely to lead to two things: disorder and the worst of personal retaliation.Mr SPEAKER: Order! That is exactly—[Interruption] Order! I am on my feet for the benefit of Mr Faafoi. That is exactly the point I was making when the member asked that supplementary question. [Interruption] Order! Again—[Interruption] Order! I will invite the member now to ask a supplementary question but he is to do it within the bounds of the Standing Orders.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Always do. Which is a better use of taxpayer funding: $20000 spent through Whānau Ora on Dunedin gang members to buy cannabis over $60000 for an Ōtaki Māori club for a 1-day hooley or $140 million on 2750 more nurses in our hospitals 2725 more primary schoolteachers in our schools or 2360 more police officers protecting our streets from crime?Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON: That is a question that should be directed to the Minister for Whānau Ora. The member has been here for almost 40 years off and on—Mr SPEAKER: Order! The latter part will not help the order of this House.Ron Mark: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! Can I remind members particularly members on the front bench on my right that this is a point of order. It will be heard in silence.Ron Mark: Could I ask you given that the report was released by the Minister for Māori affairs to look into the accuracy and the appropriateness of those answers that have been provided by that Minister today and to come back to us and say so—Mr SPEAKER: Order! I will certainly undertake to look at the accuracy of the answers. I am not giving an assurance that I will come back to the member.