[Sitting date: 02 December 2014. Volume:702;Page:4. Text is subject to correction.]

4. 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.

Rt Hon Winston Peters : Is it his position that Mr Goff should not have, as the Prime Minister has stated, leaked the Gwyn report? [Interruption]

Mr SPEAKER : Order! Could we ask the Rt Hon Winston Peters to repeat the question?

Rt Hon Winston Peters : Is it his position that Mr Goff should not have, as the Prime Minister has stated, leaked the Gwyn report?

Rt Hon JOHN KEY : Yes, that would be my view, because that was the confidentiality agreement that surrounded it.

Rt Hon Winston Peters : Is it his position that this alleged leak is a matter for police investigation; if so, why?

Rt Hon JOHN KEY : No, it is a matter for the inspector-general.

Rt Hon Winston Peters : If that is the case, why, then, was he prepared as Prime Minister to again take on a Minister who had been stood down, namely Peter Dunne, who leaked four times from the Intelligence and Security Committee?

Rt Hon JOHN KEY : That is not proven. The member is making it up, as he often does. [Interruption]

Mr SPEAKER : Order! We are breaking for Christmas next week, not this week.

Rt Hon Winston Peters : If that is a fact, then is it not also true that he has one set of standards for him and his colleagues and an entirely different and higher one for everybody else?

Rt Hon JOHN KEY : No, I have the same set of standards. What is quite clear is that Mr Goff leaked the report. In fact, he did not own up to that on day one. He forgot that, but he eventually remembered it a day later. He did that, as the inspector-general herself has said, because he wanted to get a favourable spin or coverage—those were the words. Unfair coverage was put on this side of the House. See, it is an interesting scenario, is it not? It is an interesting scenario when you go out and leak a report before it is due out to try to get favourable coverage because you know it will not stack up. Unfortunately, it backfired.

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