Peters Winston: Oral questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: Oral questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 31 March 2015. Volume:704;Page:2712. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]11.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his statements regarding the Northland by-election?Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister): Yes in the context they were given.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Is Tracy Watkins’ Dominion Post comment correct: “At a kiwifruit picking plant in Kerikeri Key admitted the campaign team decided against rolling out further spending promises after the initial reaction to its announcement on one-way bridges.”?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Yes.Rt Hon Winston Peters: If as he said the Government would unveil these promises after the by-election will he now categorise precisely what these promises are now that the by-election—thank heavens—is over?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: The member should know Northland well enough to know what the priorities are that the Government is going to announce.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. The question did not concern priorities; it concerned the promises. An entirely different word.Mr SPEAKER: Order! My difficulty and I am going to give the member a chance to rephrase his question is that there was quite a lot of lead-up to the question. If I can have a simple question then I will try to assist the member to get an answer.Rt Hon Winston Peters: As Tracy Watkins referred to spending promises—Mr SPEAKER: Order! Can I just have the supplementary question.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Yeah you’ll get it. Don’t worry.Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member will resume his seat. I am trying to assist the member to get an answer. To assist me to help the member get an answer I need a short sharp supplementary question that is in line with the Standing Orders.Rt Hon Winston Peters: For your benefit Mr Speaker if as he said the Government would unveil these promises after the by-election will he now categorise precisely what these promises are now that the by-election is—thank heavens—over?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: In the fullness of time the Government will have more announcements to make in Northland.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Did the Government put into these further intended promises the same amount of policy planning analysis and costing as it put into—Hon Steven Joyce: You’re already arguing against the roads.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Oh I would not have thought you would be speaking here.Mr SPEAKER: Order! Just carry on with the question.Rt Hon Winston Peters: —the 10 one-lane bridges and faster broadband for Northland roll-out announcements?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: The announcements made during the course of the campaign and in earlier times actually are for the benefit of the people of Northland. I am surprised that the member now that he has won the right to represent them does not actually want to be advocating for more two-lane bridges does not want to advocate for more ultra-fast broadband—Rt Hon Winston Peters: Point of order—Rt Hon JOHN KEY: You sit down; I am not finished.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Point of order. Sit down.Rt Hon JOHN KEY: You sit down.Rt Hon Winston Peters: There’s a good lad. Sit down. I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I am asking precisely—Mr SPEAKER: Order! If the member is going to raise a point of order arguing now that the question has not been addressed then I am saying that it has been. Again I advise the member if he wants to make progress—[Interruption] Would the member please resume his seat. [Interruption] Order! I am on my feet. If the member wants to make progress he is better to tighten his supplementary questions.Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I had not finished my answer. I would like the opportunity to finish it. That was not a point of order and he interrupted me.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. My question was precisely—Mr SPEAKER: Order! I have dealt with that. If it is a fresh point of order I will hear it but if the member is going to trifle with the Chair—[Interruption] Order! The member will resume his seat. [Interruption] Order! I have a very good mind to ask the member to leave the Chamber now. When I stand to my feet the member resumes his seat. I have addressed the point of order as to whether that answer addressed the question. That is the end of that matter. I invite the member if has got a fresh point of order to raise it but if he is simply going to relitigate a ruling I have made that will lead to disorder.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. A point of clarification then. When an answer comes back that the member for Northland does not support the policy promises how can that possibly be the answer?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Speaking to the point of order I did not say that. I said that if the member does not support these priorities and was going through the list of things that actually are required in Northland which I would have thought the member wanted to advocate for I am more than happy to talk about the Government’s agenda in Northland—Mr SPEAKER: Order! Now this is no longer a point of order. Does the member have further supplementary questions?Rt Hon Winston Peters: Yes surprisingly I do. Did the Government put in the same amount of policy planning analysis and costing behind the further intended promises as it put into the Government-financed cell tower installation and the Pūhoi to Wellsford superhighway promise?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: If one looks firstly at Pūhoi to Wellsford it was already well and truly announced. Again I am surprised that the member given that he has taken a month off to be in Northland does not actually recognise how important that arterial route is. If the member is serious about being the member for Northland then the member will have to get to a point where he actually understands what he is going to need to work on. He clearly does not understand that.Rt Hon Winston Peters: How will the people of Northland in his words “go faster” and be better served in respect of either business or tourism when Air New Zealand closes next month the Auckland to Kaitāia service as well as the direct Whangarei to Wellington service?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: In the case of Kaitāia obviously it is disappointing but what Air New Zealand is doing is actually replacing that service with 50-seat aircraft that will fly into Kerikeri far more regularly. The member probably knows the number of flights that Air New Zealand has from Auckland to Kerikeri every day. If he does not I am more than happy to give him a briefing on that.Rt Hon Winston Peters: What with precision are the costings for first the 10 bridges; second the Warkworth to Wellsford superhighway extension; third the faster broadband roll-out in Northland; and fourth the taxpayer-funded cell tower installations in Northland?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I am sorry I did not hear the first part of the question.Mr SPEAKER: I will invite the member to ask the question again.Rt Hon Winston Peters: What with precision are the costings for first the 10 bridges; second the Warkworth to Wellsford superhighway extension; third the faster broadband roll-out in Northland; and fourth the taxpayer-funded cell tower installations in Northland?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Firstly some of those tenders are not in but it does sound like a busy list of things here from the Government. But I am sure that it is cheaper than what it cost to stay at the Eagles Nest.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Will he as Prime Minister support me as the member for Northland to address responses to one of the most serious and most abhorrent issues facing Northland—that of sexual violence?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Actually the member makes an excellent point—an excellent point—which is that he wants to work constructively on issues that will support Northland. If that is what the member is saying to me today well I can say as Prime Ministerthat I am more than happy to work with him on those. I look forward to him supporting the Ngāpuhi settlement and the legislation that will go through there. I look forward to the member working constructively in areas like Resource Management Act reform so we can see more investment going into Auckland. I look forward to the member’s party voting for the Korea - New Zealand free trade agreement—Mr SPEAKER: Order! No the answer is now getting too long.