Robertson Grant: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRobertson Grant: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 17 April 2014. Volume:698;Page:17437. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]3.GRANT ROBERTSON (Labour—Wellington Central) to theMinister of Justice: Did she meet with a senior official from the General Administration of Quality Supervision Inspection and Quarantine also known as the AQSIQ during her Ministerial visit to China in October 2013?Hon JUDITH COLLINS (Minister of Justice): I did not have any meetings in my ministerial capacity with any such person.Grant Robertson: Will she rule out that the official who was at the dinner she attended in Beijing was from the General Administration of Quality Supervision Inspection and Quarantine also known as the AQSIQ?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: What I will rule out is that I would ever reveal the name or the employer of the official.Grant Robertson: Can she rule out that she was introduced as a Minister of the Crown at the dinner or that there was discussion aboutOravida and its border control issues given that she is not fluent in Mandarin which was being spoken by Mr Shi and the border control official at the dinner?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: What I can say is that it was a private dinner. There was no ministerial responsibility.Grant Robertson: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. My question asked the Minister whether she could rule out that she was introduced as a Minister of the Crown. That is a matter of ministerial responsibility for the Minister.Mr SPEAKER: Order! I considered the question very carefully and I considered the answer. I think the answer given was relevant to the question. If the member is unhappy with that answer which I suspect he may well be the way forward is to ask supplementary questions.Grant Robertson: I have asked quite a few of them.Mr SPEAKER: I agree; the member has. I am giving him a further opportunity.Grant Robertson: I seek leave of the House to table an email from New Zealand Trade and Enterprise dated Thursday 17 October to two Oravida.com addresses about a workshop on General Administration of Quality Supervision Inspection and Quarantinestandards.Mr SPEAKER: Leave is sought to table that particular New Zealand Trade and Enterprise email. Is there any objection? There appears to be no objection. It can be tabled.Document by leave laid on the Table of the House.Grant Robertson: Does she stand by her statement yesterday that she did not know anything about the problems thatOravida was having importing products into China in the wake of the botulism scare despite her friend JuliaXu publicly stating on television that that was so in September 2013 or thatOravida was in contact with New Zealand Trade and Enterprise about the changed standards in China?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: I do not believe I made any such statement in a ministerial capacity in this House. If that member wants to say that I have made that statement then I would like to see the proof of it.Grant Robertson: You said it yesterday.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: Well I would like to see the proof of it. Thank you.Grant Robertson: You said it yesterday.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: Then where is the proof?Grant Robertson: In light of that answer by the Minister I seek leave of the House to table the transcript of her answers to questions in the House yesterday.Mr SPEAKER: No I am not prepared—the member has made his point and I am certainly not starting to table transcripts of yesterday’s questions. The member has further opportunities I take it with supplementary questions.Grant Robertson: What discussions if any did she have after her dinner in Beijing with the New Zealand Ambassador to China about the dinner or the attendees who were at it?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: It was a private dinner. I went to bed.Grant Robertson: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker.Mr SPEAKER: I am going to invite the member to ask that question again.Grant Robertson: What discussions if any did she have after her dinner with the New Zealand Ambassador to China about the dinner or the attendees who were there?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: I cannot remember any discussions.