Peters Winston: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 13 March 2014. Volume:697;Page:16681. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]10.Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First)to the Minister of Justice: Were all her answers to questions relating to her involvement with Oravida accurate and in compliance with the Cabinet Manual?Hon JUDITH COLLINS (Minister of Justice):Yes to the best of my knowledge. However in hindsight my answers should have been broader for which I apologise.Rt Hon Winston Peters: If the ruling on the effect of the Cabinet Manual was made without the Chinese to English translation of the Oravida website on which she clearly endorsed its products then how does a clearly defective ruling excuse her clear conflict of interest?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: I do not agree with that member’s statement.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Following the botulism scare of last year is it not a fact that her visit to Oravida was predominantly to facilitate access and customs clearance for Oravida products with the Chinese market and that is the real reason why a People’s Republic of China border official was present at that dinner?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: No.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Is the Minister seriously asking New Zealanders to believe that after the botulism scare last year her murky secret meeting with the Oravida directors and Chinese officials was just a mere coincidence and not an attempt to facilitate access to the Chinese market of a product from New Zealand in which her husband had a clear interest?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: The member is quite incorrect in some of his statements. I have already advised this House that the senior adviser Margaret Malcolm was with me. She can verify exactly what happened at that dinner.Rt Hon Winston Peters: Where in the Cabinet Manual does it say that serious breaches of the provisions in the manual can be overcome by a belated and grudging apology; and why has the Minister not done the decent thing and stepped down pending a full independent investigation into her murky behaviour?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: I am of course not the expert on the Cabinet Manual; the Cabinet Office is and I take all my advice on it from the Prime Minister.Rt Hon Winston Peters: I seek leave to table an old transcript of 15 September 2013 where an interview with the co-founder of Oravida Ltd is expressing the need for Government Ministers to get involved in the kind of facilitation of clearance I am talking about.Mr SPEAKER: Source of the transcript please.Rt Hon Winston Peters: And the source is a press release from Television New Zealand.Mr SPEAKER: Order! No again press releases are freely available to members who want them.Hon David Parker: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I think this is an example of where—I certainly have not got access to that and I would like to see that document and I would suggest to you that that should be put to the House.Mr SPEAKER: Order! The matter can be resolved. I will put the leave. As described it is a press release by Television New Zealand from 15 September last year. It is over to the House to decide. Leave is sought to table that. Is there any objection? There is objection.