Peters Winston: SuperGold Health Check Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: SuperGold Health Check Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 24 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4762. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First): I want to thank those members from the Labour Party the Green Party and the Māori Party who have backed the SuperGold Health Check Bill with their senior members and former Ministers who understand the common sense behind it. National led off with laymen and laywomen backbenchers. National rubbished free doctors visits for primary school children in the past. Of course Mr O’Connor forgot to say that it was New Zealand First’s idea and he claimed that it was National’s policy. Then having rubbished the SuperGold card in the past according to Mr O’Connor MP for Tāmaki it was National’s policy he claimed tonight. It must be personally debilitating and gutting to be forced to stand up in this House and make those claims when they know that they are demonstrably and palpably just false. Mr Reti the third National speaker the person who has got a qualification as a medical doctor the MP for Whangarei got up and said that in the UK the Conservative Party and Prime Minister David Cameron do not know what they are talking about. That is what he said in essence. And then he said that Te Hāpua and Te Kao the two most northern settlements in my electorate of Northland would miss out. How he could not say. He then posed as an antipodean Blackstone or an expert in draft statute law. He questioned the bill’s drafting. Why? He could not say. And then he said that the bill left out Māori spiritual health. He wants a free visit to a tohunga. He is so out of date that he wants a free visit to a tohunga.National gives $42 million per year to Skycity and yet says we cannot afford this bill. National gives $40 million and massive power discounts to Rio Tinto and yet says we cannot afford this bill. National gives $800 million to the South Canterbury Finance bailout and then says we cannot afford this bill. Mr Reti’s question—and how electrifying it was—asked: “How do you define a doctor’s visit?”. He himself could not say. But the most senior Minister in the National Government Chris Finlayson regarded this debate from his colleagues as a substitute for Mogadon and spent most of the time asleep. I hope it was a pleasant sleep at the time. Where was the Minister for Senior Citizens? Well that Minister could not be seen for dust and small pebbles. No they put up their political cannon fodder like lambs to the slaughter. If that is the best that the—Simon O’Connor: What is it about sheep and you lot? You’re obsessed.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: No no. It is not sheep to the Arabian slaughter but lambs to the political slaughter. Mr O’Connor that was a disgraceful performance. The reality is that Conservative Parties around the world know that this works. If you are going to make a complaint without having any substitute wording that will not wash any more. We are required to be professional in what we do. This legislation has precedent—precedent in the foundation source of the National Party in this country. How sad it is that the British Conservative Party might remember Disraeli and people like that but this new modern brand of National Party has no philosophical basis at all. That is why National opposed the people who we know used to be so loyal to them. Here comes the warning. This is a fatal night for those backbench members. There will come a time soon when they will realise that they should have stood up for themselves and their constituents not for the hopeless political organisers at the top of the ninth floor of the Beehive.