I was on leave this afternoon at a very good forum held by NZ Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Scientists so only just watched question time.
I was very amused to see Kate Wilkinson dodge questions on pay equity by attacking my colleague Sue Moroney for not subbing in and replacing me at select committee for estimates last week given that I asked “NOT A SINGLE QUESTION!!!!!!”
Well Minister – my reasons for not asking a question were as follows:
- Trevor was taking you to pieces with his questioning and certainly didn’t need me butting in, and
- Your Chair David Bennett restricted the amount of time available to opposition members (Labour and Greens combined) to question you and so I left what small amount of time we were given to Trevor and Darien, our spokespeople.
But I’m glad you agree that it would’ve been good if I could’ve asked you the many questions I have about your priorities for NZ workers, because frankly I’m more than a little worried.
Maybe you could have a chat to your colleague David Bennett about allocating the time more fairly in the future?
