Mark Ron: General Debates 
Mark Ron: General Debates 
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RON MARK (NZ First) 
: 
 I seek leave to table a series of documents. One is a letter containing a job description for assistant herd managers that was supplied to two Ukrainian people. 
Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER 
: Leave is sought for that purpose. Is there any objection? There is not. 
Document by leave laid on the Table of the House. 
RON MARK 
: The second document is a contractual agreement between an employer an employee and a company called LV— 
Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER 
: Leave is sought. Is there any objection? 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: I raise a point of order Madam Speaker. We do not know what the company is called. 
Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER 
: I think the member had said enough. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: I don’t know what it is called. Perhaps you can tell us? [ 
Interruption 
]  
Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER 
: The member will withdraw and apologise. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: I withdraw and apologise. I raise a point of order Madam Speaker. The House is entitled to know what documents are being tabled by leave whereupon members can give their consent knowing what the documents are. Just a few letters from a company’s name is not a description. I have seen the documents but the rest of my colleagues in this House have not. They still want to know what the document is that Mr Mark seeks to table. I know what you are trying to do; you think it might be political so you are getting in first to stop him. But we will have the Standing Orders abided by even by you as the person in the Chair. I want to know what those documents are in a way fit for the House to understand what they are with an adequate description of what they are. The member is entitled to read that out. [ 
Interruption 
] 
I raise a point of order Madam Chairperson. 
Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER 
: I am on a point of order; please be seated. Leave was sought to table succinctly. The member had given an indication. I ask Mr Mark to carry on please. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: I raise a point of order Madam Speaker. There is no way that the senior Government whip is allowed to sit there and throw out the insult he did. He knows what he said. He should be asked to withdraw and apologise wash his mouth out and retire from the House. 
Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER 
: I did not hear what the member said. Did the member say something? 
Opposition Member 
: He did. 
Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER 
: Would the member withdraw then. 
David Benson-Pope 
: I referred to the previous speaker— 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: No no. 
David Benson-Pope 
: Madam Speaker you have not asked me to withdraw and apologise. I am commenting on what I said. 
Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER 
: The point is that the Rt Hon Winston Peters interjected on a point of order himself.  
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: I raise a point of order Madam Speaker. I might have interjected on a point of order but I did not make an unparliamentary statement in the way that he did. That is the difference and I am asking that he withdraw and apologise for it. 
Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER 
: I have dealt with the matter. 
John Carter 
: I raise a point of order Madam Speaker. We have a difficulty inasmuch as the member Winston Peters took offence at a statement that was made by the senior Government whip—one that I heard and I myself thought was unparliamentary. We cannot have insults flung across the House from members to other members. I think it would be appropriate in these circumstances for the member to be asked to withdraw and apologise. 
Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER 
: I have ruled on the matter. It has been dealt with. I ask Mr Ron Mark to continue. 
RON MARK 
: The document is authorisation for $120-plus to be extracted from employees’ wages every week from their base $20000 salary. There are two documents of that sort. 
Documents by leave laid on the Table of the House. 
RON MARK 
: The third one is an individual employment agreement for a “farm employee—general” not a herd manager for a Ukrainian national employed by a farm in South Canterbury. 
Document by leave laid on the Table of the House. 
RON MARK 
: There is one further document. 
Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER 
: The member asked to table three. 
RON MARK 
: Yes I have just decided to table this. I seek leave to table lists from the Immigration Service’s website that show there are no authorised jobs for farm labourers in Canterbury. 
Document by leave laid on the Table of the House.