Points of Order — Urgent Question: Public Health Issue

I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. At lunchtime today I sought your permission to ask an urgent question of the Minister of Health about the public health issue now at Lake Rotoiti, near Rotorua, and you chose to decline that request. I now seek leave to ask a question of the Minister of Health about those public health concerns.

💬 Mr SPEAKER: Leave is sought to ask this question. Is there any objection? There is objection.

I seek leave to table documents that show that two scientific researchers who are working on the lake have been taken ill with symptoms consistent with campylobacter.

💬 Mr SPEAKER: Leave is sought to table that document. Is there any objection? There is objection.