Parker David: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers Questions to Members 
Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume 
Parker David: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers Questions to Members 
[Sitting date: 04 April 2012. Volume:679;Page:1648. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
1. 
Hon DAVID PARKER (Labour) 
 to the  
Chairperson of the Finance and Expenditure Committee 
: Is it his intention to call the Treasury to appear before the committee to comment on the  
Report from the Controller and Auditor-General on The Treasury: Implementing and managing the Crown Retail Deposit Guarantee Scheme 
; if not why not? 
TODD McCLAY (Chairperson of the Finance and Expenditure Committee) 
: 
 No; the Finance and Expenditure Committee considered this matter at its meeting on 4 April and as a result I no longer have authority as chairperson to do so. 
Hon David Parker 
: Is the Finance and Expenditure Committee currently scheduled to meet during any of the next 3 weeks and if not what process reason is stopping the Finance and Expenditure Committee using that free time to question Treasury about the Auditor-General’s criticism of Treasury’s loss of tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars? 
TODD McCLAY 
: Any further decision about how to progress this item of business is a matter for the committee. 
Darien Fenton 
: I seek leave of the House to have the Local Government (Council Controlled Organisations) Amendment Bill in my name introduced and set down as a member’s order of the day. This will bring transparency and accountability to publicly owned ports. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Leave is sought for that course of action to be taken. Is there any objection? There is objection. Would some— 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Mr Speaker supplementary— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Is this another point of order? 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: No a supplementary question. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: The New Zealand First Party has used its allocation of supplementary questions— 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: Not when it comes to questions of the day to members. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: —so there is no further supplementary question available. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: No no that cannot be. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: I beg your pardon. I beg the member’s pardon but traditionally in respect of questions to members there is only one supplementary question. I am unaware of other members of the House being able to ask supplementary questions— 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: It is only $500 million. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: Order! Just in case I am wrong let me check with the Clerk to make sure because I have not in my time as Speaker seen supplementary questions allowed to other members. 
Hon Trevor Mallard 
: I think you let them run against Mr Bennett early in your time when you were a very good Speaker Mr Speaker. 
Mr SPEAKER 
: The traditional practice has been one supplementary question to a member but if I recollect correctly when there were more supplementary questions allowed they were allowed to the member questioning the other member and that was because the Speaker was not satisfied that the questions had been answered. This would be a most unusual departure and I do not think I should be allowing the traditional practice to be changed just on a whim. I am happy for the matter to be considered by the Standing Orders Committee but I am not prepared to allow other members to ask supplementary questions to questions to members. In my time I cannot recollect when that was ever allowed. I am very happy for the Standing Orders Committee to look at it but I do not think as Speaker I should be changing our practice. 
Rt Hon Winston Peters 
: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. Just because the last questioner David Parker ran out of questions I am sure he is able to give me a nod and say— 
Mr SPEAKER 
: No no—order! A nice try but we are not going to go down this track today.