Seymour David; Brownlee Gerry; Hipkins Chris; Peters WinstonPOINTS OF ORDERLeave to Table Documents—Correspondence with SpeakerHon DAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): Point of order Mr Speaker. I seek leave to table a series of documents being correspondence between yourself and the ACT Party whip dated from 25 July—last Thursday—to today in which you appear to give a green light to racial harassment in this Parliament.SPEAKER: I beg your pardon? Say that all again. I could hardly hear you. Speak into the microphone.Hon DAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): I seek leave to table a series of documents being correspondence between the ACT Party whip and yourself dated from 25 July—Thursday—to today wherein you appear to give a green light to racial harassment in this Parliament.SPEAKER: Well you're asking the Parliament to make a judgment in this case or you're asking the Parliament to accept your judgment in which case I certainly don't but none the less you've sought leave—Rt Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Leader of the Opposition): Point of order Mr Speaker. Speaking to that point of order. What we've just seen from a Minister in the Government is an absolutely outrageous attack on the Speaker of the House. Now I appreciate you're being very restrained in your response to that but you would be well within your rights to censure David Seymour for this. This is directly questioning your ruling as a Speaker and your authority as a Speaker in a way that I've not seen in the time that I've been in this House. And it's a senior Government Minister who will shortly be deputy Prime Minister who's doing it; it's utterly unacceptable. Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: Point of order.SPEAKER: Point of order—well hang on a minute it can't be a new point of order so are you speaking to the point of order?DEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER (Co-Leader—Te Pāti Māori): Speaking to the point of order. Thank you for your clarity. We also would like to express our deep concern at this senior position abusing the role to sit there and actually say that your ruling was wrong. Te Pāti Māori received that ruling and we stand by your judgment and indeed your years of professional experience to be able to give that judgment so we would ask that we are able to carry on.SPEAKER: Carry on with what?Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: With business as usual—sorry Mr Speaker.SPEAKER: Right. Well I'll tell you what I'll put the leave. Leave is put is there any objection? There is objection.Rt Hon Chris Hipkins: You should have objected too—what kind of a Leader of the House are you? [Interruption]SPEAKER: Just a minute—Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Deputy Prime Minister): Point of order Mr Speaker. If we're going to have a plea for decorum in this House then you cannot have someone saying You should have objected too" because what Mr Hipkins is saying is that you personally as Speaker of this House should've objected to what is going on. Now with the greatest respect I think he should get a better fix on Standing Orders before he so prematurely gets to his feet.SPEAKER: Look I appreciate the tensions that naturally—Hon Willie Jackson: Stand up for your people.SPEAKER: Yeah Willie we don't need that thanks very much. I'm OK to look after myself in many ways. I think my view is that leave was sought the House has expressed a view that the leave is not sought and therefore it ends there."