A Contempt for Parliament
Most people know I have a special contempt for Trevor Mallard - a contempt that's reciprocated as he's my local MP and doesn't like my robust questions I give him at public meetings.
But yesterdays display in Parliament is a new low. Trevor Mallard covered an oral question for Dover Samuels (who was in Wellington as he'd been at a Select Committee Meeting only two hours earlier). Mallard then used every inch of the Standing Orders to refuse to answer any question about Dover Samuels statements critical of Government Policy on aquaculture.
Just two weeks ago the Government was ever accusing National of wasting Parliamentary time on a trivial matter. Now National is raising the issue of Government delays in passing a bill on aquaculture regulatory framework (a growing export industry) and how even a Government Minister is frustrated by it and Mallard refuses to engage.
Transcript of the question is here.
But yesterdays display in Parliament is a new low. Trevor Mallard covered an oral question for Dover Samuels (who was in Wellington as he'd been at a Select Committee Meeting only two hours earlier). Mallard then used every inch of the Standing Orders to refuse to answer any question about Dover Samuels statements critical of Government Policy on aquaculture.
Just two weeks ago the Government was ever accusing National of wasting Parliamentary time on a trivial matter. Now National is raising the issue of Government delays in passing a bill on aquaculture regulatory framework (a growing export industry) and how even a Government Minister is frustrated by it and Mallard refuses to engage.
Transcript of the question is here.
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