METIRIA TUREI (Green) Link to this
I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. Although I recognise that the Government does have the right to transfer questions from one Minister to another, I do want to note that my question, accepted by the Clerk as correctly directed to the Minister of Fisheries, has been transferred to an absent Minister. I am concerned that the use of the Government’s power to transfer a correctly directed question to an absent Minister may come uncomfortably close to an abuse of the process and of the Government’s power.