Browning Steffan: Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment Bill — Referral to Government Administration Committee In CommitteeText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBrowning Steffan: Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment Bill — Referral to Government Administration Committee In Committee[Sitting date: 06 August 2013. Volume:692;Page:12361. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]STEFFAN BROWNING (Green):I want to refer as well to those parts. I want to refer to clause 6 which inserts sections 8A and 8B. Mr Dunne said before that this bill the Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment Bill could not apply to him and the Henry inquiry. Of course it very very much could if it wanted to be interpreted that way because you could drive a bus through sections 8A and 8B. You could interpret it and we know that it would be interpreted as widely as loosely as anything. So we could have Mr Dunne’s emails looked at because we could ask what they were all about. They were about a leaked report to do with the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and surely—surely—this would be interpreted to include that. Then we would ask in relation to Mr Dunne’s emails whether we needed just his metadata or whether we actually needed to look at the content. The GCSB of course would want to be looking at the content. I just want to raise some real questions about that.If this was in and Mr Dunne was anywhere near or it had been suggested that he might have leaked a document of course this would be able to be used to check on him. Then the questions would be raised and maybe they should be raised even now as to whether the Prime Minister would tell us whether he or MrKibblewhite or MrEagleson emailed to the current GCSB those emails that they apparently could not open the attachments to which could not be opened so they could not look at them properly and therefore they dumped them as they said. But we know that they did not mind getting them or did not seem to mind. We do not know that but we know that the GCSB has already operated illegally with 80-odd people. Did it do that once more in looking at Mr Dunne’s emails and the content of them? We do not know that because the Prime Minister probably will not answer that question.The Henry inquiry was about a leaked document. This part would definitely apply if it was in to allow for a leaked document to be inquired about. This is about Part 1. It is about section 8A and this would allow that for sure in section 8B.I would also ask whether Mr Key MrEagleson or MrKibblewhite looked at my phone records or emails while you were ducking and diving for cover—The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): Order!STEFFAN BROWNING: Sorry Mr Chairperson. The Prime Minister was ducking and diving for cover when we were discussing Ian Ferguson’s appointment. So Ian Ferguson—Ian Fletcher sorry. The wrong one. There are a lot of people with “f”s in this business it seems.Hon Member: Including the Prime Minister.STEFFAN BROWNING: Well I did not quite say that. But in terms of Mr Ian Fletcher and his appointment I pointed out and others in this House pointed out that Mr Fletcher’s appointment was from a friend to a friend and there were some dubious goings on and how that happened. Did they want to know—The CHAIRPERSON (Lindsay Tisch): Order! We are on Part 1. Focus on Part 1.STEFFAN BROWNING: In Part 1 I note sections 8A 8B—Kris Faafoi: And C.STEFFAN BROWNING: —and 8C. Section 8A(c) states: “to report on anything done under paragraphs (a) and (b) and provide any intelligence gathered as a result and any analysis of the intelligence to—“(i) the Minister;”. It refers to the Minister—the Minister with the power the Minister who can look at or ask for emails it seems of anyone. So how many emails have they looked at in terms of members of Parliament who have bothered them in other areas? That is enough on that aspect of sections 8A and 8B.