CHRIS HIPKINS (Labour—Rimutaka) Link to this
I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I seek your assistance with a matter relating to the tabling of documents by the Minister of Finance after answering question No. 8. The Minister sought leave to table documents advising that the Government had not breached section 33 of the State Sector Act. The Minister has yet to table that advice. I have reviewed the documentation that he tabled, and no such advice is contained therein. Given that if leave is obtained—
Mr SPEAKERI did not understand the Minister to have specifically undertaken to table a document with any particular advice. He was supposedly quoting from a document. We have no idea what was in that document. The Hon Darren Hughes indicated that he would like to have it tabled; the Minister obliged by saying he would seek leave to table it. That document was tabled—that was what the House understood the document to be. I do not believe that there is any further matter. What is more, the member cannot raise the matter as a point of order, because where leave is sought to table documents, they can be tabled any time between now and the close of today’s sitting.