Carter DavidRt Hon DAVID CARTER (National): I want to start by thanking the Hon Shane Jones for his sermon today. He may be good at saving souls but he's not going to solve the problems the current Government faces. He has another crack at the Aussie banks suggests they should pay a levy of $100 million because they shut down the odd provincial bank around the country. He's the associate Minister for State-owned enterprises and Kiwibank and New Zealand Post are closing branches all around the country—all around the country. There's a word for it Mr Speaker—it begins with h" ends with "y". I won't dare use it; you've had enough difficulty today but it's fairly obvious to most people who listen to the Hon Shane Jones.Today I have never seen a Prime Minister look so uncomfortable. As we continue to ask questions about one Mr Karel Sroubek—Hon Damien O'Connor: I can list many times: Bill English John Key.Rt Hon DAVID CARTER: —the Prime Minister dodged all the questions today. She might think the story will go away over the Christmas break; I've got a message for her: this story won't go away over the Christmas break. When we come back in February and work through to March mark my words Hon Damien O'Connor: the truth will come out—the truth will come out.But today I wanted to devote my time to asking the Hon Shane Jones what's going on with Landcorp. Landcorp claims to be a leader of the New Zealand agricultural sector. A lot of farmers I know don't particularly like Landcorp and after the events of the last few days most farmers will despise Landcorp under Mr Jones as the responsible Minister because what Landcorp did is they went to the Tax Working Group not on time. Somebody asked them to put the submission in. It was one month after all other submissions had closed. Every other submission—6700 of them—went immediately on the website; for some very strange reason the Landcorp submission did not go on the website. When we finally got hold of a copy of it it advocates for a nitrogen tax a water tax and a capital gains tax. I ask the Hon Shane Jones as the responsible Minister for Landcorp what's Landcorp doing even making a submission to the Tax Working Group and advocating for three new taxes which will damage the agricultural sector more than any other sector in New Zealand?Note that Mr Shane Jones has gone quiet on this occasion—the first citizen of the provinces hasn't got an answer to my question. When he goes back to his office I suggest to him that he have a look at the board of Landcorp because he said in the House today that they knew that a submission was being made. He didn't tell us in the House today whether they knew what was in that submission but I suspect that if they look carefully and ask the question of the board he'll find the board were absolutely hoodwinked by that submission. And if they weren't hoodwinked then what he should do is look at the qualifications and the suitability of every board member on Landcorp. Because if they're going to be there advocating against New Zealand farmers—Hon Damien O'Connor: A bunch of tired old Tories you have there.Rt Hon DAVID CARTER: It might suit the Hon Damien O'Connor who's not respected by New Zealand farmers and not admired by New Zealand farmers—he's known not to be an advocate for New Zealand farmers—but don't let the same thing happen to Landcorp.While the Minister Shane Jones goes back to his office to sort out the Landcorp board he needs a board that will sort out the management within Landcorp. The environmental reference group under the chairmanship of a Marnie Prickett and also supported by the likes of Guy Salmon and Dr Alison Dewes will not be there advocating for New Zealand farmers. When he has a look then at the chief executive Mr Steve Carden get the board to ask the real relevant questions. Because I'm told Mr Steve Carden intends to stand for the Labour Party at the next election and if he does he should resign his job now and stand as a candidate for the Labour Party and take his chances at—SPEAKER: Order! The member's time has expired."