Peters Winston: Privilege — Consideration of Report of Privileges Committee Question of Privilege Concerning the Defamation Action Attorney-General and Gow v Leigh Consideration of Interim Report of Privileges Committee Question of Privilege Concerning the Agreements for Policing Execution of Search Warrants and Collection and Retention of Information by the NZSISText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: Privilege — Consideration of Report of Privileges Committee Question of Privilege Concerning the Defamation Action Attorney-General and Gow v Leigh Consideration of Interim Report of Privileges Committee Question of Privilege Concerning the Agreements for Policing Execution of Search Warrants and Collection and Retention of Information by the NZSIS[Sitting date: 12 June 2013. Volume:691;Page:11079. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First):Mr Kennedy Graham and I have been constrained in the length of our reply in this debate because shortly there are to be two maiden statements from two new members who are desperately needed in terms of the talent that the National Party presently suffers from at this point in time. We are all waiting with bated breath to hear what they have got to say because the reservoir has run dry. As a consequence we will constrain our speeches way short of the 10 minutes that we are qualified to have and because we want to accommodate the National Party’s desperation to infuse in its organisation some talent for the first time for a long time.That said if you go straight to the recommendation on page 6 of this report it is the nub of it that I want to address and the nub of it is the recommendations made to the Intelligence and Security Committee and the role of the Minister in charge of that committee. It is just two paragraphs. What is apposite is that there are parties concerned as to what is happening with the Government Communications Security Bureau or more particularly the Minister in charge of it. If members refer to our speech at the time of the introduction of the Government Communications Security Bureau and Related Legislation Amendment Bill they will see in those opening paragraphs what our concerns are but our concerns have magnified since we gave that speech. Our concerns have magnified to the extent that a Prime Minister rises in this House and says that he happily received a sanitised report. It was not the one seen by those down at theGovernment Communications Security Bureau at the time they looked at the preliminary report draft. No it was one that the former head of the Government Communications Security Bureau is reported in theNew Zealand Heraldthis morning as saying on page 10 is a report that has been sanitised and that there are whole “lots” of parts to use his words that are missing.More important what happened was that the original report had some information that was moved to the appendices of the final report and then when the final report went out sanitised as it was the appendices were never released. In short people who appeared before the Kitteridge review know far more than every member of Parliament and according to the Prime Minister they know far more than him even though he is the Minister in charge. That is an abysmal situation. It is an appalling lack of prime ministerial and ministerial responsibility that we are addressing and I hope that one of the new members coming in here today who are about to give their maiden statements realise just how far the party that they have joined and campaigned for and have now come into Parliament for has sunk.Hon John Banks: Don’t be silly.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: And it has been sunk by people like Mr Banks. Mr Banks I might tell you had 42 cheques sent to him and understandably you could forget a few but he forgot all 42.Hon Member: What happened to your $100000?Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: What happened to the $157000? What happened to the $157000?Hon John Banks: Say “No”.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS: No the answer comes up here so that no more deceit and misrepresentation continues from that Parliament. What happened to the $157000 was that we wrote to the Auditor-General—[Interruption ] No no listen. We said to him that every cent was approved by the Parliamentary Service. Then second we said that because the law has been changed any paying back of that to the Inland Revenue Department attracted gift duty and as a consequence we to not enhance ourselves by one cent gave it to 10 different charities. That is what happened to our obligation.On the Owen Glenn matter—on the Owen Glenn matter as I said before—Nick Smith had a legal fund John Banks had a legal fund and neither of those people were ever run before Parliament on the basis that they had broken any rule. However they sat there those people in a kangaroo court. They drafted a report that said: “The law doesn’t apply. We’re writing a new one and—here we go—retrospectively we are going to apply it to Winston Peters because we want him out of Parliament.” Well we are back. We are back and every day—I must tell these new members—the people are joining in legion numbers all around New Zealand. The halls are being packed—the halls are being packed—and out there the people are saying: “We’ve hung on because we know help is on its way.”I have got only 2 more minutes but I want to say this to these two new members. Before you have travelled too far along the pathway of being mere cannon fodder ask yourselves these questions. Is this the party of Holyoake? Is this the party of Hamilton? Is this the party of fine men like Duncan MacIntyre? Was it the party of Winston Peters once? Yes when it was a great party. It was a great party—when the party had 200000 members. Today it has got just 200 big donors. No membership—no membership. Mr Banks we are never going to eat our hearts out to support a party that has sold out every principle it once stood for. Nevertheless I want to wish the two new members who have come here a successful career here difficult as it is going to be short as it is going tobe. I hope that your maiden statements tonight evince the principles and dreams of the party that was around when you were born but not the one that is here now. Thank you.Motion agreed to.