Shearer David: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeShearer David: General Debate[Sitting date: 31 July 2013. Volume:692;Page:12122. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DAVID SHEARER (Leader of the Opposition):You always know you have hit the jackpot when Government members have a go at your policy. I can tell you Mrs Collins that if you go out there and talk to New Zealanders about overseas speculators they will have a very different opinion from the one that that you just came up with. They do not believe that this Government is putting New Zealanders first. The Government is putting overseas speculators in front of Kiwis. A Labour-led policy will look at building 100000 homes a capital gains tax on speculators and stopping overseas speculators as well. It comes as part of a package and it is more than no package from the other side.But I want to talk today about the issues of the day and about our intelligence agencies. I am sick and tired of having to stand here as other Opposition members do and as the media do trying to drag the truth from this Prime Minister—drag the truth.He did not know about Dotcom. He did not know about the US interests in Dotcom. He did not know anything about his department organising the raid on Dotcom. He did not know about illegal spying on Dotcom. He knew actually about the spying in July but did not make it public—until pressure was put on—until September last year. Then—David Bennett: Tell us about your bank account.DAVID SHEARER: Certainly. Then at the beginning of this year there was the appointment of his friend Mr Fletcher. How many days did it take to drag that information out of this Prime Minister? His first instinct is to say: “What can I get away with here?”. It is not to come clean not to give us the honest truth but to say: “What can I get away with?”. What has happened as a result is that public confidence in our intelligence agencies is at an all-time low—at an all-time low.Nobody believes that the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) is functioning as it should. Nobody believes that this Government has the balance right between the security of New Zealand on one hand and the protection of our privacy on the other. What they are seeing is what they believe is an erosion of their privacy and their rights. That was brought out in submissions on the Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment Bill by the Privacy Commissioner the Human Rights Commission and the New Zealand Law Society. All of those submitters believe and understand that this Government is undermining the privacy and rights of New Zealanders. Tomorrow we will have the second reading of that bill. We will have the second reading of that bill in light of what has gone on today which is about the GCSB assisting the inquiry into the leaking of the Henry report.We know that Parliamentary Service turned down two requests for information—two requests for information from the Henry inquiry—until MrEagleson the chief of staff of the Prime Minister got on the case and pulled that information in. That letter that the Prime Minister put on the Table today is just one of the pieces of information that need to come forward. It is the same old story which is that we are trying to pull information out of this Prime Minister bit by bit rather than him coming clean. He will not come clean. He keeps on saying that he gives the answer and then we find there is another answer behind that one and there is something else and something else.The public have lost confidence in our intelligence agencies which the Prime Minister heads solely because of the way he has behaved. Tomorrow we are going to have an ad hoc piece of legislation coming through to Parliament but it should have been introduced following an independent inquiry which everybody in this country wants. Thank you.