Peters Winston: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 02 June 2015. Volume:706;Page:4170. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]11.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First)to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his statements with regard to Northland?Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister):Yes in the context in which they were given.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Does he think that the Government is delivering for Northland when Northland College is so dilapidated run down neglected mould-ridden and leaky that the police have asked to use the school for training because it is the closest thing available to “a ghetto environment”; if so why?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I do not have the details on Northland College other than what I read in the paper this—[Interruption] I was going to say other than what I read in the paper this morning. There is a programme to improve facilities at Northland College and I am sure that will be carried out.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Is it not a fact that regions like Northland are the victims of neglect while $350 million in extra funding is going to Auckland schools alone—when the worst classrooms are in provincial New Zealand where principals are saying that the process is “just hopelessly slow” and that “When you are living with it day-to-day it’s tough … I just feel if we were in Auckland it would be done faster.”?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: No I do not think that is correct. I think there are obviously poor conditions at Northland College and that issue needs to be resolved.Rt Hon Winston Peters: How can he explain the over $2.4 million being spent on the failing Whangaruru charter school when just up the road at Northland College we have got pupils who are learning in sheds and staff who are trying to cope with appalling conditions?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I think that they are slightly different issues. One of them is a partnership school which is one of the early partnership schools to be advanced and that was all about providing ultimately greater choice for children who want to go there. It is a different issue from the conditions at Northland College.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Is it not a fact that the money spent on the Whangaruru charter school could have paid for 45 classrooms and would have provided an extra classroom desperately needed at the school called—Hon Hekia Parata: How long has that school been run down?Rt Hon Winston Peters: Which school are you talking about—Mr SPEAKER: Order! I am going to ask the member to start his question again without interjection from my right. [Interruption] Order! Would the member start his question again.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Is it not a fact that the money spent on the failed Whangaruru charter school could have paid for 45 classrooms and that just down the road at Whananaki School there has been a demand for an extra classroom for over a year and the Minister has failed to do a scrap about it?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: As I said earlier I do not have the specific details for those colleges. I do know that the Government has been investing heavily as you saw in Budget 2015 in new classrooms upgrades and the roll-out of ultra-fast broadband. It is probably a reflection on the member for Northland that he gets involved in an issue because it is in the paper rather than actually leading the charge.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. The Prime Minister started off by answering the question so well and then as usual he began a personal attack which was something that failed 3 months ago in the Northland by-election.Mr SPEAKER: The member has made his point but not with a legitimate point of order.