JUDITH COLLINS (National—Clevedon) Link to this
I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. I seek your assistance on this matter, pursuant to Standing Order 369 and Speaker’s ruling 145/2, as I see that I am to raise this issue with you during question time. I put in a question this morning for the Minister for Social Development and Employment, when I asked whether he had been advised of any reports that stated he had misused his ministerial position. There is a report in Investigate magazine that makes that allegation. That question was ruled out of order, after it had been in the Clerk’s Office for about an hour, and I understand that you may have had something to do with that decision, Madam Speaker. I wonder whether you could give me some assistance so that that question does not get ruled out of order again.
Madam SPEAKERI had no knowledge that the member had put in a different question before I received the list of questions that were to be put, then I was informed, as I was on several other questions—as I often am—that there had been an alteration to those. I personally have nothing to do with that.