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: 11 March 2014. Volume:697;Page:16474. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]12.GRANT ROBERTSON (Labour—Wellington Central)to the Minister of Justice: Did she note her visit to the Shanghai offices of Oravida Limited in her report to Cabinet on her Ministerial visit to China in October 2013; if not why not?Hon JUDITH COLLINS (Minister of Justice):As that member knows from the information provided a month ago the answer is no. Just as when Labour was in office Cabinet reports do not include every minor stop on a trip. In the same way my stopping off at Cafe Flat White in Beijing was not included in the Cabinet report. As that member already knows I agreed that I would call in to see Oravida’s Shanghai office if time allowed. I will continue to do everything I can to support “New Zealand Inc.” especially when I am overseas.Grant Robertson: In light of that answer why did she name the businesses that she visited in her report to Cabinet on her June 2012 visit to China but failed to do so for her visit to Oravida in 2013 which was the subject of a formal invitation?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: The member must be referring to my visit to the Red Pear Company in the Yunnan Province. Primarily because it took about 3 hours to get there have the visit and then go back again. It was a very long visit. It was not a 20-minute stop.Grant Robertson: After receiving the invitation on 9 October to visit Oravida in Shanghai from the chairman Stone Shi did she discuss the visit with either of the other two directors of Oravida Ltd?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: I had already spoken to the chairman and the managing director on 7 October when they invited me and I have said that any request like that I would normally like to have in writing so that I could release which of course I did.Grant Robertson: What does she say to former National Party president Michelle Boag who has described her decision to go to Oravida as naive?Mr SPEAKER: The Hon Judith Collins in so far as there is ministerial responsibility.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: I would say that that was very sweet that she feels about me like that. It is very sweet of her.Grant Robertson: Given the condemnation of her visit from the editorial writers of the New Zealand Herald the Dominion Post theSunday Star-Times and numerous political commentators will she now admit that the visit to Oravida did give rise to a conflict of interest and that she should apologise to New Zealand taxpayers for making that visit on a taxpayer-funded trip?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: I am always very concerned when I have any editorial that agrees with me in any way because I represent the people of this country.Grant Robertson: I seek leave of the House to table the trip report provided to Cabinet by Judith Collins on her June 2012 visit to China that lists companies she visited.Mr SPEAKER: Leave is sought to table this particular Cabinet document. Is there any objection? There is objection.Grant Robertson: I seek leave of the House to table the trip report to Cabinet by Judith Collins on her October 2013 visit to China which did not name Oravida which she visited.Mr SPEAKER: Leave is sought to also table this particular Cabinet document. Is there any objection? There is objection.