Little Andrew: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeLittle Andrew: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 26 May 2015. Volume:705;Page:3935. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]3.ANDREW LITTLE (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Why has he reneged on his commitment made in 2011 that “the $1000 kick-start for new KiwiSaver members will remain as it is now” by removing the kick-start in this year’s Budget and did he renege on any other commitments in the Budget?Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister): Those comments were made with regard to KiwiSaver changes in Budget 2011—when Labour’s policy was from about four leaders ago—raising the retirement age at the time. As I said the Government intends to reduce the amount of money it has to borrow from overseas to put into KiwiSaver and increase the amount of genuine savings from the private sector. That is precisely what we have done. The only reneging I have seen since the Budget has actually been from the Labour leader who spent Friday talking about means testing then sort of reneged then went—Mr SPEAKER: Order!Andrew Little: Why has he broken his promise made last year to invest $212 million in regional highways with Budget 2015 allocating less than half that amount over 3 years?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Sorry could you just repeat the question? I could not hear one word—Mr SPEAKER: Order! I will ask Andrew Little to repeat the question.Andrew Little: Why has he broken his promise made last year to invest $212 million in regional highways with Budget 2015 allocating less than half that amount over 3 years?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: You really need to direct that question to the Minister of Transport because there will be a logical explanation. We are totally committed to those roads but they will be accounted for in a certain way.Andrew Little: Why has he broken his promise made in September last year to create 150000 jobs in 2 years given that the Budget shows him missing that target by 50000 jobs?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: The member is wrong again.Andrew Little: Why has he broken his promise made in September last year to increase the average wage by $7000 in 3 years given that the Budget shows the average wage will rise only half that much?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I think the Budget showed that wage growth over the next 3 will be about $7000. Prior to that it was $5600. But what is true is that average wages are growing faster than inflation under this Government something that the previous Government could not achieve.Tim Macindoe: What reports has the Prime Minister received on other approaches to managing retirement savings policy?Mr SPEAKER: Provided it is within the prime ministerial responsibility I call the Rt Hon Prime Minister.Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I have seen a number of conflicting reports on other approaches to retirement savings policy. One included a question about means testing New Zealander superannuation. The answer was: “Yep I don’t think we can avoid looking at that.” and “You’ve got people over 65 able to keep on working earning a good income working alongside people who are doing the same or similar work not getting it. Is it right that the person over 65 on a full-time income should also get this income supplement?”.Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! Would the Prime Minister resume his seat. This answer is only going to lead to disorder.Andrew Little: Why has he broken his promise made last year not to impose new taxes by putting a new levy on people entering and leaving the country and hiking the levy on broadband users bearing in mind the Oxford Dictionary says a levy is “a tax raised by levying”?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: We have not broken our promise. What we have done is ensure that there will be more money for biosecurity. Mr Little can spend all his time in question time asking these questions if he wants but the real question is: will he get back on side with his caucus who now hate him because he is polling 25 percent because he wants to means test New Zealand superannuation? It ain’t going well Andrew.Mr SPEAKER: Order! Before I call the honourable member Tim Macindoe [Interruption] Order! Before I call him I will need him to be aware of Speaker’s ruling 154/2A: “It is not reasonable to use questions from the governing party or its support parties to attack other members of the House.”Tim Macindoe: What measures has the Government taken to ensure its retirement savings policies are sustainable over the long term?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: What an excellent question. We have set out a responsible path for overall Government spending so that current settings for New Zealand superannuation are both affordable and fully factored into our long-term forecast. As Treasury notes New Zealand’s current superannuation costs are quite low by world standards at less than 5 percent of GDP compared with over 9 percent on average across the OECD. By 2060—that is 45 years from now—New Zealand’s annual superannuation costs are forecast to be 8 percent of GDP. That is lower than the current OECD average. If one was really worried about this issue as one political party in Parliament says it is there are only three ways of resolving this issue: raise the age of superannuation means test or make it less generous to everybody. Mr Little has ruled out two; it must be No. 3. No wonder your caucus—Mr SPEAKER: Order!Andrew Little: Why has he broken his promise to stop Kiwis becoming tenants in their own country by failing in this Budget to stop foreign buyers who are purchasing one in every 10 houses sold in Auckland and instead announcing a range of measures none of which will make a difference to the Auckland house price crisis?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: The member would be a lot more credible if he did not make up numbers. It is not one in 10. He has no evidence to support that. Actually nobody knows. In fact if he stopped making up policy on the hoof like the means testing of superannuation he would do a bit better as well.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Speaking about the primary question which was “renege on any other commitments”—Mr SPEAKER: Order! Can I just have the supplementary question without the preamble please.Rt Hon Winston Peters: You are getting it right now. I am relating it to the primary question.Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member will resume his seat. There is simply no need to relate it to the primary question. The Standing Orders require that the supplementary question is related to the primary question. I call on the member to simply ask his supplementary question.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I am asking a supplementary question. I have used five words and you have stopped me.Mr SPEAKER: I am very tempted to not allow the member to ask a supplementary question. When he wants to ask a supplementary question I give the member the call. He rises and asks the question. There is no need for an introduction about relating it to the primary question. I do not want to have to repeat this for the member. We will be moving to somebody else if I need to.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. With the greatest of respect and I have been here longer than you—[Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! It is a point of order. I intend to listen in silence.Rt Hon Winston Peters: If I intend there to be some relativity to the primary question in what I am about to ask that is up to my discretion. With the greatest of respect this is the first time I have had someone make the ruling you have just made from that Chair.Mr SPEAKER: Well then I suggest the member needs to listen more often in question time. You are required to—[Interruption] Order! The member will stand and withdraw that remark immediately.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I withdraw.Mr SPEAKER: Supplementary question Andrew Little.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Supplementary question Mr Speaker.Mr SPEAKER: No supplementary question Andrew Little.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker.Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member will also be very familiar with the Standing Orders. I have the right to decide where I will take a supplementary question. I warned the member that he would not get a second chance. I am going to hear a supplementary question from Andrew Little. I may change my mind and then let the member ask a supplementary question. I may do so.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. You did not tell me that I would not get a supplementary question. You have—Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] The member will immediately—[Interruption] The member will now leave the Chamber.Rt Hon Winston Peters withdrew from the Chamber.Andrew Little: Why does he not just keep his promises rather than inventing new excuses for breaking them?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: This Government keeps its promises and that is why it keeps getting re-elected. If the member wants to recreate history he is welcome to it but actually he knows like I know that the most popular thing on Thursday and Friday was our Budget and the least popular thing was his decision to means test New Zealand superannuation.