Bennett PaulaHon PAULA BENNETT (Deputy Leader—National): Thank you Mr Speaker. There's a relatively short list actually of attributes that that member was trying to give to his coalition Government. Did we notice they now miss out open and transparent"? So they no longer list "open and transparent" as attributes that they would put to this coalition Government. Earlier this week the Prime Minister announced that Maria Dew QC will conduct an inquiry into the substance of serious allegations involving one of the Prime Minister's own former staff members. At the same time the Prime Minister advised that the Labour Party's own lawyers Kensington Swan had nearly completed a piece of work on whether the Labour party behaved appropriately in the handling of complaints. We were told by the Prime Minister in her post-Cabinet press conference that the Dew inquiry would not look at what the Labour Party did with the complaints when they were received nor the handling of them—that she actually wanted to concentrate on the complaints themselves and make sure that the victims and I think the alleged actually got a fair process. And actually I agree with that. I think that they deserve to have that process actually seen in its own context of what it is. We were then told that the Kensington Swan review would be based on documents rather than testimonial interviews and later on after a question again she stated that it would be paper only. So effectively the party is getting its own lawyers to look at itself not talking to any of the victims nor the people they spoke to—basically do it all on the documents which quite frankly evidence to date suggests it's fairly dubious within the Labour Party as to how they look at documents. How can you take a review seriously if it actually excludes talking to the very people who played a part in this whole saga?So why won't the Kensington Swan review conduct interviews? Well if they conducted interviews they would have to speak to Grant Robertson because it's become very evident that he knows something that's been going on. We've said before that there are deep alliances within him. In fact it's said that the alleged perpetrator works in his electorate as one of his volunteers on his executive. He doesn't want to have to answer questions because he would have to tell the whole truth and so it is—SPEAKER: Order!Hon PAULA BENNETT: —avoid avoid avoid. "Whole" I did say Mr Speaker. In the others well he says that he can't say what's going on because he's protecting privacy after the complainants have already gone out publicly—so whose privacy is he protecting?Also the Kensington Swan review will not look at senior staffers that we know the victims have said they have spoken to and they have gone to. So there is no way any of that will be covered in the Kensington Swan review. That is already effectively done and now the only other next stage of that is to actually take it to an independent reviewer that looks at it. But we don't know if there were terms of reference what they might have been or what they covered. What we do know is it's paper only and it's documents that may have been emailed but it's not actually getting to the heart of who knew what when and how that should actually be covered. We also heard from the Prime Minister on Monday that Maria Dew had said that her review would take four weeks. Given she was apparently appointed five weeks ago and it's only been in the last few days that they've agreed to the terms of reference I think we should start taking some bets in this House—and I'm sure the gallery might even want to join in—on the actual day that that might be dropped.Marja Lubeck: Shameful! Shameful! Taking bets on victims!Hon PAULA BENNETT: I'm thinking—what?—the week before Christmas or the week of Christmas yeah? I'm thinking that maybe they'll sort of make sure that it's around a time like that so that they can actually hide from it. The member that's shouting out "Shame" should because shame on the Labour Party for how they have actually handled this and how they have actually dealt with it. I was really disappointed to see media reports earlier this week that some complainants had raised concerns that a witch-hunt is still under way. I can only imagine their fear their trauma and their vulnerability. The Prime Minister has said that that will not be happening from staff in her office—that that will not be happening from members of Parliament and from Labour. I only hope that actually they have all heard that."