Dalziel Lianne: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers Urgent Questions 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Dalziel Lianne: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers Urgent Questions 
[Sitting date: 28 March 2013. Volume:688;Page:9070. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
1. 
Hon LIANNE DALZIEL (Labour—Christchurch East) 
 to the  
Minister responsible for the Earthquake Commission 
: What action is he going to take to stop further Earthquake Commission breaches in light of today’s revelation that they have sent claim details including names and bank account numbers to a claimant? 
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE (Minister responsible for the Earthquake Commission) 
: 
 The member speaking just before indicated that the Labour Opposition received this information at 23 minutes past 1. I left my office to come to the House today at quarter to 2 and that would mean that there was about 23 minutes or so in which those members could have told me prior to leaving my office that they knew about this breach. I have not been informed about the breach. I will certainly check it out and take whatever action is necessary to ensure that the Earthquake Commission does get on top of its system so this sort of thing does not happen. 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: Does he accept that with over 2000 names bank account details and the amount of the unpresented Earthquake Commission cheques wrongly released to a claimant there is systemic failure in the Earthquake Commission’s data system and will he now take ministerial responsibility for this scandal? 
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE 
: As I said I am not aware of this. If the member was aware at 23 minutes past 1 and considers it to be the breach that it would appear to be I am disappointed that she did not contact my office to let me know that she is now in receipt of people’s private information. 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: I seek leave to table with the names removed—[ 
Interruption 
] 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! This is a point of order and it will be heard in silence. 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: I seek leave to table with the names removed from the emails and from the ANZ bank and from the individual claimants—I am not going to table the 2000; I am talking about just a summary of what is there from the person who sent it to my office at 1.23 and my staff member who gave it to me at 5 to 2 this afternoon. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Leave is sought to table that. 
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I think that compounds the problem here. The member has now said herself that she did not get this information until 5 to 2. It is plain to everybody who has been either in the House or watching the proceedings that I have been in the House all of that time. I cannot possibly respond and I think it would be irresponsible for the House to grant leave for private information to be laid on the Table of the House. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: And I appreciate—[ 
Interruption 
] Order! Order! I appreciate the point that the Minister is making. At this stage the member has sought leave to table a document. It is in the hands of the House as to whether that document will be tabled. Leave is sought— 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: May I give the House a reassurance that there is no private information on what I am seeking to table. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Leave is sought to table— 
Hon GERRY BROWNLEE 
: In that case what is being tabled? 
Mr SPEAKER 
: What is being tabled is the information that she has received but she has made it very clear that she has removed the personal names so that people cannot be identified. 
Hon Lianne Dalziel 
: I will go through it individually. I have got the email to my office which includes the email from the EQC info mailbox that came to the person who has released this information to me. I have got the letter that he received from the Earthquake Commission which shows that there are attachments and the attachments are the stop payment requests from ANZ. There are no details on that at all. There are the stop payment requests and I have removed the names of the individuals and the serial number which is their bank account number. I have done the same with this form as well. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: And that is a very very full and adequate explanation of what the member is attempting to table. Leave is sought to table those documents. Is there any objection? There is none. They can be tabled. 









Documents by leave laid on the Table of the House.