Peters Winston: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11239. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]1.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) to the Prime Minister: Does he still stand by all his statements; if so why?Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister): Yes because I find them more accurate and more coherent than the member’s questions. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! We will have just the supplementary question.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Which of the following statements does he stand by: “Slowly rising house prices in Auckland are not good.” “The Auckland housing market has been rising a little faster than the Government would want.” “We take responsibility. We need to do a better job of it.” or my favourite “There is not a housing crisis.”?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: All of them in the context that they were made. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! No we will have the supplementary question in line with the Standing Orders.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Can I ask the Prime Minister how he can say he has confidence in Nick Smith undertaking “a wide range of initiatives when it comes to housing” when there is now an overwhelming majority of New Zealanders who simply do not agree with him?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Because it is a statement of absolute fact that Minister Smith has done a great deal in the housing area including seeing $34 million a week used to subsidise New Zealanders into housing seeing 40 new houses a day built in Auckland seeing 154 special housing areas created in Auckland which will release up to 56000 homes seeing Crown land released and seeing 12000 families being able to access the KiwiSaver HomeStart along with the tax changes that have been made. The changes have been very significant.Rt Hon Winston Peters: How can he have confidence in a Minister who makes Maurice Williamson look like Keith Hay Homes or describe him as being “outstanding” and further “doing the best he can”—or is it a case of “Don’t blame John Nick did it. Don’t blame Nick John told him to.”?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: It is probably true that Maurice Williamson started his political career living in a Keith Hay home but that member started his living in a log cabin. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! There is just too much interjection. I invite the Rt Hon Winston Peters if he has a further supplementary question to ask it.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Does he agree with an infamous New Zealander who said: “We are facing a severe home affordability and ownership crisis. The crisis has reached dangerous levels in recent years and looks set to get worse.”; if not why not?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: No.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Is the Prime Minister aware that he was the one who said that?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Not when I was in Government I did not.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Is the Prime Minister able to remember any promise an hour after he has made it?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Yes; my memory is not going.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Does the Prime Minister remember saying that the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement would bring $5 billion to this country by 2025 when there is not one other expert in the world who agrees with that and which country was he talking about when he said that?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: New Zealand.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Does the Prime Minister remember warning New Zealanders that he did not want them to become tenants in their own country and that being the case could he tell us what his discussions were with the leader of the Chinese communications arm of the Chinese communist Government yesterday? Did they concern for example the takeover of Silver Fern Farms rising foreign ownership in this country or being treated as though he were a head of State?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: No I did not raise those particular points but nor was it some sort of secret meeting given that I put a picture on my Facebook site of meeting the man.