Imprest Supply (First for 2013/14) Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeImprest Supply (First for 2013/14) Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 26 June 2013. Volume:691;Page:11295. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Imprest Supply (First for 2013/14) BillFirst ReadingHon STEVEN JOYCE (Acting Minister of Finance): I moveThat the Imprest Supply (First for 2013/14) Bill be now read a first time.A party vote was called for on the question that the Imprest Supply (First for 2013/14) Bill be now read a first time.Hon DAVID PARKER (Labour):I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. [Interruption ]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): Order! The member is on his feet.Hon DAVID PARKER: Are you finding that a member of the Government voted in favour of that motion because—The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): I had not quite finished putting the vote and I heard Mr Henare say yes. [Interruption ] Order! Is there a vote called for? There is a vote called for.GRANT ROBERTSON (Deputy Leader—Labour):I raise a point of order Mr Speaker.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): We are right in the middle of a vote.GRANT ROBERTSON: The Hon Tau Henare was warned both by you and by a previous Speaker about showing the bit of paper with a number on it. He was ejected from the House earlier. He has just done it again in defiance of your ruling.Hon TAU HENARE (National):I picked up my stuff I went like that I am out of here. Thank you very much. I mean how—[Interruption ]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): Order! Order! The member will be seated please. As I have said—[Interruption ] Order! As I have said to themember before all members are honourable and they are taken at their word. So I am going to ask the member now whether he showed the placard and if so then he will leave the House.Hon TAU HENARE (National):As I have said—[Interruption ]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): Order! Please continue.Hon TAU HENARE: As I picked my material up I went like that. If the cameras were on me they will show what I did.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): All right—[Interruption ] Order! I take the member at his word. If it is otherwise then the member knows the repercussions of that.Hon TREVOR MALLARD (Labour—Hutt South):I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. I think you have got at least three members on this side who will indicate to you that what Mr Henare just told the House is not true. There is a limit to how often you can take a member’s word. We took it last time because I was the only person who saw it. At least three members on this side saw Mr Henare—not once but twice—not point the sign towards him as he indicated to you but outwardly to the House. It is vital that we take members’ words in this House. It is the basis on which we work. Tau Henare has given an undertaking that was absolutely incorrect and he has misled the House I think deliberately. I think there is probably a last chance for him to accept what he has done to take the immediate punishment and to apologise both for what he did and for misleading the House otherwise this matter is going to get pretty rough.TIM MACINDOE (Junior Whip—National):Mr Mallard’s latter point is right. It is vital that we take members at their word. His previous point was quite wrong. There is no limit to which we accept that all members are honourable. Your ruling was correct and I invite you to uphold it and to move on.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): Well all I can say is this: that a member’s word is taken as it is. That is the right that we have here as freedom of speech. If it is proved otherwise—if the member is proved otherwise and there are cameras here—then there are repercussions for the member.Hon TAU HENARE (National):I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. To reiterate what I said to Mr Mallard I picked my stuff up from my chair I went like that—that is right absolutely—and then I put that on my material the way it is now. If that is a crime in this House then I think we have sunk pretty low.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): Order! Can I just suggest—Hon TREVOR MALLARD (Labour—Hutt South):You will note that when Mr Henare explained what he did the first time he held the number towards him. When he explained what he did the second time he did indicate—only briefly compared with what he actually did—what he did do. He has changed his story between the two points of order and he effectively pleaded guilty in the second one.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): Can I invite the member to withdraw and apologise and leave the Chamber.Hon TAU HENARE (National):Am I being kicked out of the Chamber? For?The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (H V Ross Robertson): I am asking the member to withdraw and apologise and leave the Chamber.Hon TAU HENARE (National):I withdraw and apologise.Hon Tau Henare withdrew from the Chamber.A party vote was called for on the questionThat the Imprest Supply (First for 2013/14) Bill be now read a first time.Ayes64New Zealand National 59; Māori Party 3; ACT New Zealand 1; Independent: Dunne.Noes53New Zealand Labour 33; Green Party 11; New Zealand First 7; Mana 1; Independent: Horan.Bill read a first time.