Mallard Trevor: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMallard Trevor: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 06 March 2014. Volume:696;Page:16417. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]9.Hon TREVOR MALLARD (Labour—Hutt South) to theMinister of Internal Affairs: What action if any has he taken this year to show the Prime Minister that he has met the highest ethical standards required by Section 2.53 of the Cabinet Manual?Hon PETER DUNNE (Minister of Internal Affairs): All my actions since becoming the Minister of Internal Affairs have been in accord with all of the provisions of theCabinet Manual.Hon Trevor Mallard: Does he take responsibility to ensure that all answers the Prime Minister gives in this House in relation to the Minister’s suitability to hold office are accurate and if they are in any way inaccurate that the Prime Minister is given accurate information in order to correct his answer?Hon PETER DUNNE: Answers that the Prime Minister gives like answers that any Minister gives are the responsibility of the person giving the answer. I have confidence in the answers the Prime Minister has given.Hon Trevor Mallard: Have all answers the Prime Minister has given in the House this year in relation to the Minister been accurate?Mr SPEAKER: The Hon Peter Dunne in so far as he has ministerial responsibility.Hon PETER DUNNE: I am confident that they are but the ultimate responsibility—as rests with me in the case of questions asked of me—rests with the Prime Minister in respect of questions asked of him. I think he demonstrates day by day week by week in this House that he is more than on top of those matters and can best any of the questioners who are seeking to outwit him.Hon Trevor Mallard: Did he approach the Prime Minister or the Prime Minister’s office following the Prime Minister’s answer to question No. 10 on 19 February in relation to the making available of the draftKitteridge report on the Government Communications Security Bureau wherein the Prime Minister said that he relied on theMinister’s assurances in this House to inform the Prime Minister that he has never given any such assurance in this Chamber?Hon PETER DUNNE: I refer to my previous answer about responsibility for answers and I have not discussed these matters with the Prime Minister around the timing of that question.Hon Trevor Mallard: Is he prepared to make the Prime Minister’s statement I have just referred to in relation to his suitability to hold his current office accurate albeit retrospectively by today assuring the House that he did not make the draftKitteridge report on the Government Communications Security Bureau available to a Fairfax journalist.Mr SPEAKER: I will leave the Minister to answer the question but again the member is now going into something that in my opinion the Minister as the Minister of Internal Affairs does not have responsibility for.Hon PETER DUNNE: This question has been asked in a variety of forms over recent weeks. It has been answered by the Prime Minister and me and I stand by those answers.Hon Trevor Mallard: Has he discussed hisoneirataxia with the Prime Minister?Hon PETER DUNNE: I have discussed a number of things with the Prime Minister but frankly the meaning of that word escapes me and I am sure it is something that if I had a dictionary I might bother to look up.