Points of Order — Question No. 7 to Minister 18 November  Question No. 6 to Minister 18 November National Party Leadership—Special Debate 
Points of Order — Question No. 7 to Minister 18 November  Question No. 6 to Minister 18 November National Party Leadership—Special Debate 
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Points of Order 
Question No. 7 to Minister 18 November  
Hon PHIL GOFF (Minister of Justice) 
: 
I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I seek your advice in relation to question No. 7 on the Order Paper yesterday. Very serious allegations were made; that armed and drug-crazed home detainees had attacked security guards. I had no information about this but I felt an obligation to investigate this matter for the House. Unfortunately the one security firm that services home detainees has no evidence at all of this happening. I have checked with the police and they have had no complaint. Nor have they received any information from Mr Mark.  
Gerry Brownlee 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: We are in the middle of a point of order. [ 
Interruption 
] The member is very close to contravening my statement. 
Hon PHIL GOFF 
: Yesterday Mr Mark was denied the opportunity to table an email. He will not give me a copy of that email because he was denied permission. I wonder whether he could be given the opportunity again to submit that evidence to the House so that I can follow it up.  
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
: 
Having concluded that point of order you will have realised by now that from the start to the finish it never was a point of order. It was a blatant political effort made by a member whose party denied my colleague the right to give him the information yesterday. If he wants to behave in that petulant fashion then you should not— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Please be seated. I have finished and do not have to hear the member any further. The member is perfectly correct in what he says. Any member of course can seek to table a document—I have found that out; it has been drawn to my attention. If the member wants to seek leave to table it that is his business and his business alone.  
Question No. 6 to Minister 18 November 
RON MARK (NZ First) 
: 
I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I draw your attention to the answer to oral question No. 6 yesterday in the process of which the Minister of Transport made this statement: “For example the police used to be sitting in cars and vans monitoring speed cameras. They do not do it any more because we think they should be doing other things.” People have rung my office and said that on a frequent basis they see speed cameras on the highway between Belfast and Rangiora that are staffed by police officers. In the interests of not misleading the House I invite through you Mr Speaker the Minister to make a correction to his clearly inaccurate statement.  
Mr SPEAKER 
: No there is no procedural issue for me to rule on. There are various steps that the member can take if he wishes to do so.  
National Party Leadership—Special Debate 
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) 
: 
I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. It seems that we are coming to question time. I seek leave that at the end of this question time we have a 1½-hour special debate on the issue of the recent changes in the National Party leadership as numerous as they have become.  
Mr SPEAKER 
: Leave is sought for that debate to occur. Is there any objection? There is objection.