Shaw James: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeShaw James: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 22 September 2015. Volume:709;Page:6839. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]5.JAMES SHAW (Co-Leader—Green) to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his statements after almost 7 years as Prime Minister?Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister): Yes especially the statement I made where I said that at least he read it out better than Andrew Little.James Shaw: Does he still stand by his statement that “only the odd one or two kids turn up to school without lunch” given that a Principals’ Federation survey found that 73 percent of low-decile schools use their core educational funding to feed their students every day?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I stand by the full quote that was made at the time in the context in which it was given. But I would make the point that this is a Government that has delivered over 5 million breakfasts since it has been in office. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! The level of interjection and noise is too high. [Interruption] Order!James Shaw: Is he saying that breakfast is enough for kids and that they do not need lunch also?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: For a start off this is a Government that has worked hard to create more jobs and has more Kiwis in history in jobs than ever before. This is a Government that has actually raised benefits for the first time in 43 years. This is a Government that has ensured that now children under 13 can go to the doctor for free. This is a Government that has seen hundreds of thousands of State houses—James Shaw: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. My question was in relation to students eating breakfast and lunch not in relation to unemployment benefits.Mr SPEAKER: The question may have been in relation to that but it was not. It asked whether the Prime Minister is effectively saying that breakfast is enough and they do not need lunch and dinner. That is the sort of question that gives a fairly wide ambit for the answer.James Shaw: What advice has he received from his education Minister in response to the Principals’ Federation survey which shows that several schools are spending $2000 a term of their own funds to feed hungry children?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: What I can say is that firstly this is a Government that is spending around about $10.8 billion in education in total. That is the first point. Secondly this is a Government that has worked with Fonterra and Sanitarium and KidsCan to ensure that every decile 1 2 and 3 school—or in fact any school—that wants a breakfast in school will be provided with that.Hon Paula Bennett: Fruit in Schools.Rt Hon JOHN KEY: This is a Government that has also continued and expanded Fruit in Schools and you know we are working very hard with those schools to ensure they can provide the support for youngsters who deserve it.James Shaw: I seek leave to table an Official Information Act request from the education Minister dated 11 August showing that she has not sought or received any advice from officials in the wake of the principals—Mr SPEAKER: Leave is sought to table that particular Official Information Act request. Is there any objection? [Interruption] Order! No I need to put the leave. Any member can either agree to it or decline. So leave is sought to table it. Is there any objection? There is objection.James Shaw: Should schools use their core education funding for food rather than books or computers; if not what funds should they use or should they let those children go hungry?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I have outlined the extensive programmes that the Government has partnered up with others on. Over 5 million breakfasts have been provided under this Government—the record speaks for itself.James Shaw: So given that 75 percent of schools are saying that they have to use their core operational funding to feed their own students would he say that all of the initiatives that he has just outlined are failing to actually solve the problem?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: It is a straight outright inaccurate statement to say that 75 percent of schools are using their funding to feed children.