Lees-Galloway Iain: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeLees-Galloway Iain: Questions for Oral Answer — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 16 April 2014. Volume:698;Page:17318. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]7.IAIN LEES-GALLOWAY (Labour—Palmerston North) to theMinister for ACC: Does she stand by her answers to Oral Question No. 10 yesterday?Hon JUDITH COLLINS (Minister for ACC): Yes. I especially stand by my answer when I said that the policy was first agreed to by the Hon Ruth Dyson when she was Minister for ACC.Iain Lees-Galloway: When she answered the primary question saying: “The policy in respect of stopping paying weekly compensation to clients who refused to provide a signed unaltered copy of the ACC167 form was first agreed to by the Hon Ruth Dyson in March 2006 in a briefing paper signed by her as Minister for ACC after discussions with officials.” was she aware that the briefing paper she referred to contained no reference whatsoever to stopping payments to ACC clients?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: No; the report makes it very clear that that is exactly what is going to happen. If people cannot fill out a form and the form is required for the application clearly that is exactly what is going to happen.Iain Lees-Galloway: Where in that briefing paper does it reference stopping payments to claimants?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: How can anybody get a claim through if they cannot fill out the form? It is pretty obvious.Simon O’Connor: What was the Minister’s reaction on being briefed by ACC about the decision of the High Court as to the legitimacy of stopping weekly compensation for clients who refused to sign an unamended form ACC167?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: My advice to ACC was that I believed that it should comply with the ruling. I agreed with the decision that it advised me that it had taken—that is not to appeal the decision. I also asked ACC to attend to the form forthwith so that people could not have their claims disallowed or not even received for not having completed the form in an altered form.Iain Lees-Galloway: When she answered the first supplementary question to question No. 10 yesterday saying: “The question is in relation to the ACC167 form and the policy’s adoption. It was adopted by the Hon Ruth Dyson. I do not have details on any other details he has asked for.” was she aware that paragraphs 2.6 and 3.2 of the briefing paper she tabled in the House yesterday did provide the details I was asking for in that supplementary question and indicated that claimants were able to place conditions on ACC’s authority to collect data in 2006 without fear of losing their weekly compensation?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: He is going to have to do that again. It was such a long question.Mr SPEAKER: Order! If the Minister is saying that she could not clearly hear the question we have no choice but to hear it again.Iain Lees-Galloway: When she answered the first supplementary question to oral question No. 10 yesterday saying: “The question is in relation to the ACC167 form and the policy’s adoption. It was adopted by the Hon Ruth Dyson. I do not have details onany other details he has asked for.” was she aware that paragraphs 2.6 and 3.2 of the briefing paper she tabled in the House yesterday did provide the details I was asking for in that supplementary question and indicated that claimants were able to place conditions on ACC’s authority to collect their data in 2006 without fear of losing their weekly compensation?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: It was such a long briefing paper and I had just tabled it so I did not actually have it with me.Iain Lees-Galloway: Why did she make any claims about what that briefing paper actually said if she had not read the thing?Hon JUDITH COLLINS: The member is asking about a particular point within in it. Since I did not have it with me having just tabled it I presumed that he had it.Iain Lees-Galloway: You lied. You lied and you know it.Hon JUDITH COLLINS: No. Mr Speaker I ask for that member to be asked to withdraw and apologise for that comment he has just made.Mr SPEAKER: Order! Will the member withdraw and apologise for that interjection?Iain Lees-Galloway: I withdraw and apologise. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! That sort of interjection leads to disorder. We have just had it withdrawn by one member. It will cease.