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Question No. 9 to Minister

Thursday 15 November 2007 Hansard source (external site)

SmithDr the Hon LOCKWOOD SMITH (National—Rodney) Link to this

I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. I apologise for not raising this point of order the moment it happened, but I was so gobsmacked that it has taken me a moment to work out what just went on. At the end of the previous set of questions, I believe I heard you, as Speaker, invite the Minister to seek leave to table documents. That is something that the Speaker should not be involved in. Members have a perfect right to seek leave to table documents, but where the Speaker invites them to do so, it implies a relationship between the Speaker and in this case the Government that could be seen to be inappropriate.

WilsonMadam SPEAKER Link to this

No, I have heard enough. The Minister, in answer to one of his questions, indicated he was going to table documents. Rather than interrupt the next questioner, I asked people whether they were going to table documents, because often members, unfortunately, forget. That was what happened.

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