Peters Winston: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 29 July 2015. Volume:707;Page:5421. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]5.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his statements?Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister): Yes and just in case the member was up all night wondering what the answer was to yesterday’s question that I did not get to answer the answer was yes as well then.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. What happened to the rule about not relitigating your rulings?Mr SPEAKER: Strictly speaking the member who raises the point of order is absolutely right. It would have been far more helpful to the order of the House if the Prime Minister had just answered the question without referring to any incident yesterday.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I was right then as well. [Interruption] Lighten up chaps. Why when he said in 2010 and these are his famous words “I’d hate to see New Zealanders as tenants in their own country.” has he then proceeded to remove through policies and trade deals all powers that this Parliament has to stop that very thing happening?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I am not entirely sure what the question is but the answer is that it is nonsense what the member said.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. Can I repeat the question?Mr SPEAKER: In this case I think I have to allow it. If the Prime Minister had just without referring to the question—[Interruption] Order! I am going to allow the member to repeat his question.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Why when he said in 2010 “I’d hate to see New Zealanders as tenants in their own country.” has he then proceeded to remove through policies and trade deals all powers that this Parliament has to stop that very thing happening?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: In answer to the first part of the question because it is true; and in answer to the second part of the question the member is talking nonsense.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Is it not a fact that after the China free-trade agreement and now the Korean free-trade agreement this Parliament does not have any power to ban Chinese or Koreans from buying up Kiwi land and homes?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: The advice I have had is that because Labour negotiated the mostfavoured nation status in the China free-trade agreement as a result of the Korean free-trade agreement yes the member is right—we would not be able to ban Koreans and ultimately Chinese nationals from buying residential property in New Zealand.Mr SPEAKER: Order! I just need a—[Interruption] Order! [Interruption] Order! I am still on my feet trying to get some silence from my left.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Has he not admitted already that one of the consequences of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement negotiations thus far will be that the power of Parliament to ban the sale of houses and land to non-residents in Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement nations will be completely and utterly extinguished?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I would not want to say that today because the Trans-Pacific Partnership has not been concluded. There may be implications in terms of bans but as the Government said and as I said during the weekend actually we do not favour a ban on the sale of residential property or land. We think there are far better ways of addressing it. Actually when one looks at the list of countries that actually have bans it is very small and the bans do not work. When you look at the countries that do not have extensive restrictions and that have policies similar to New Zealand’s it is a very very long list.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Is he happy to go down in history as the leader who did his best to hand over the powers and rights of this Parliament to foreign Governments and to put the “Welcome foreign buyer” sign up for Kiwi land and homes?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Well I think history will remember me for many things I am sure but not that. If the member really did have to wait 24 hours to ask that question—gosh it must not have been much of a wait really.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Is it not a fact Prime Minister that the Government’s present public relations softening-up strategy is because as Prime Minister on the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement he has utterly sold this country out?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: No. Up until very recently actually both Labour and National could see the enormous benefits of having a free-trade agreement with the first and fourth-largest economies in the world. Both Labour and National could see that for our companies large and small around New Zealand being able to compete in those very very large and wealthy markets without our hands tied behind our backs would be an enormous success. Both Labour and National have seen over the history of time that free trade has massively advanced this country. The only parties that believe from what we can see in the Neanderthal policies that the member is promoting are New Zealand First and the Greens. And frankly even though they hate each other they deserve each other.Mr SPEAKER: Question No. 6—Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. This House will be first of all disorderly and brought into disrepute if a Prime Minister is allowed to get up and say that one party hates another party or its members. That surely is not parliamentary for a start—Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! The member has now had his say but when I look at the question and the accusation that another party is selling out the country it gives a fair amount of licence for the answer that has been given.