2. SUE MORONEY (Labour) Link to this
to the Chairperson of the Education and Science Committee
Has the committee scheduled hearings for Sue Kedgley’s petition of 15,683 New Zealanders who have asked to reinstate healthy food guidelines?
ALLAN PEACHEY (Chairperson of the Education and Science Committee) Link to this
As this petition is still before the committee for consideration, all matters relating to it are confidential committee proceedings at this stage.
Why does he want to hear about healthy food guidelines but not about fair pay for school support staff and others?
Mr SPEAKERI raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I seek your advice. This goes to the heart of our democratic processes within this Parliament. I am seeking an answer from representatives of the Government about why they shut down the voice of nearly 16,000—
The member will resume her seat immediately. She cannot use a point of order to litigate that kind of issue. She sought to ask, under the Standing Orders, a question of the chair of a committee. The Standing Orders provide very limited bounds around supplementary questions that can be asked in such circumstances. The information the member sought to elicit by way of a supplementary question was not within the Standing Orders provisions. If the member wishes to get that information, she should put down a question to a Minister, but while the matter is still under the consideration of the committee, it is hard to imagine an appropriate question to the chair of the committee.
I seek leave of the House to table a letter from me to the chairperson of the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee, asking for an official response to a petition on pay equity from me and 15,808 other people, because the select committee has yet to—