Peters Winston: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 03 November 2015. Volume:709;Page:7556. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]2.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) to the Prime Minister: Does he have confidence in his Minister of Immigration; if so why?Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister): Yes; because he is a hard-working and conscientious Minister.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Seriously is he satisfied with over a thousand new patients a week and is he confident that our hospitals are able to cope with the record demands as a result given that they have had no extra funding; if so why?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I should have also added in the spirit of the Rugby World Cup the attributes of the Minister of Immigration in his more youthful years when he played for the South Island team because they are about as relevant as the statement that the member has just made. Of course there is more money going into health. Go and have a look at the last Budget.David Seymour: When did immigration to New Zealand begin and how many people were in New Zealand prior to that time?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I assume it happened hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years ago—there is some talk of 600 years if not more. And at the time when the first people arrived one would assume there was nobody here and there is still an awful lot of room left from what I can see.Rt Hon Winston Peters: For the benefit of the leader of the ACT Party can the Prime Minister advise him that an immigrant is someone living legally in a country not of his or her birth?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I think that is true of everybody when they came here at some point.Rt Hon Winston Peters: For those shallow people who—Mr SPEAKER: Order! If we could just have the supplementary question.Rt Hon Winston Peters: For those shallow people who argue that everybody is an immigrant how can he be satisfied that funding levels for our hospitals schools police transport infrastructure and housing is adequate to meet the demands of a population increase driven by record migration; if so why?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: It is true that if one looks at the last 12 months the net migration numbers are much higher than they have been in recent years but over half of that actually reflects either New Zealanders not leaving or New Zealanders returning. If we look at migrants they add a lot to our country. They add a lot to the diversity of our political system. The member is as he knows the member for Northland. He just needs to wander around his own electorate and look at some of the investment that has come in from the United States and all of that sort of thing. And if that does not satisfy him that migration makes sense maybe he just wants to look at his own caucus member who I think is of Indian descent—Mr SPEAKER: Order!Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. The Prime Minister is well off the subject—Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member will resume his seat. I think on this case there is a slight truth to what the member is saying. The answer went on for too long. I rose as the member rose to make sure the answer did not continue any longer. Does the member have a further supplementary question? [Interruption] Order! I have dealt with—[Interruption] Order! I have dealt with the matter. The member may not be satisfied but I have dealt with it.