Dyson Ruth: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers Questions to MembersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDyson Ruth: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers Questions to Members[Sitting date: 24 June 2014. Volume:699;Page:18785. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]1.Hon RUTH DYSON (Labour—Port Hills)to the Member in charge of the Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid Leave) Amendment Bill: Does the member intend to proceed with the Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid Leave) Amendment Bill this year; if not why not?SUE MORONEY (Member in charge of the Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid Leave) Amendment Bill):Yes I do intend to proceed with my bill extending paid parental leave to 6 months which is set down for its Committee stage debate tomorrow because it has growing majority support in Parliament. The good news is that with one further members’ day left before Parliament rises for the election there is time for my bill to proceed to its third reading and be passed before the election. The only thing that—Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member has actually answered the question right at the start. I have given her some liberty—[Interruption] Order! The answer is long enough.Hon Ruth Dyson: What is the additional cost of her bill to extend paid parental leave to 26 weeks?SUE MORONEY: My bill now has only National standing between it and enactment because National has threatened financial veto. An amendment that I will introduce today means there will be no impact on the forthcoming financial year and therefore no justification for the current Government to use a financial veto. My bill will now be based on the election pledge from Labour to increase paid—Hon Gerry Brownlee: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. Quite apart from the fact that that answer was well past what is reasonable for an answer to a member’s question—[Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! I would be reluctant to ask members to leave. We have got so far through question time without having to do so but this is a point of order.Hon Gerry Brownlee: What are the Speakers’ rulings around pre-emption of business as was the centrepiece of that particular answer?Mr SPEAKER: The issue of pre-empting business is technically something that should not be pre-empted in debate earlier but I think the more important thing is that the length of the answer is too long. The question was what the additional cost was. The member very quickly said she is proposing an amendment so there will be no additional cost. That is a sufficient answer to this question. It is not a chance to use this as a speech. I will allow the member to now ask the second question. The answer is completed.Grant Robertson: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I invite you as you have said you will do to go back and look at the tape and transcript of today and perhaps as just one example compare the length of answers from Sue Moroney with those from Mr Joyce in response to a question from one of his members. You will find they were shorter.Mr SPEAKER: I accept that point but questions to members are always handled in a more concise way than questions to Ministers. The second point is that the member himself cannot have it both ways. On many occasions he has interrupted an answer being given by the Minister—quite correctly—and said that the question had been answered and there is no need to add to it. I am ruling the same way for the benefit of the member this time.Sue Moroney: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I am really just speaking to the point of order that—Mr SPEAKER: Order! I have dealt with that—[Interruption] Order! The member will resume her seat. I have dealt with that. If the member wants to raise a fresh point of order I will listen to it but to now try to talk to one that I have already dealt with is in itself out of order.Sue Moroney: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. There have been questions set down to me as a member in charge of a bill and I am attempting to let the House know about an amendment—Mr SPEAKER: Order! The member will resume her seat. At this rate she will not get to answer her second question. I have ruled that the question has been answered. I cannot be clearer than that.