Voting — Correction—Medicines Amendment Bill

Point of order, Mr Speaker. I seek leave to correct a vote which was mistakenly given on my behalf on the Medicines Amendment Bill third reading.

Leave is sought for that purpose. Is there any objection? There appears to be none.

MARIAMENO KAPA-KINGI: My vote on the Medicines Amendment Bill third reading was given as one against. It should have been one in favour.

Thank you. A bill has been introduced—

Rt Hon Winston Peters: Point of order. Do you recall me raising a point of order about the authority for certain members to have their vote cast the way it was? I was overruled, and here we have got somebody now correcting it. That was only a week ago.

Yeah.

Rt Hon Winston Peters: Well, maybe there’s a lesson I would like to hear that we’ve learnt.

Well, if you’re expecting some sort of humble pie exercise from me, it’s not happening. A bill is—

Point of order, Mr Speaker. I seek leave to correct a vote which was mistakenly given on my behalf on the Medicines Amendment Bill third reading.

Leave is sought for that purpose. Is there any objection? There appears to be none.

Tākuta Ferris: My vote on the Medicines Amendment Bill third reading was given one against. It should have been one in favour.

Thank you. Well, in response to the Rt Hon Winston Peters, I’m starting to back down a little bit. I think that if other parties are being asked to cast votes for people who have Speaker’s leave, they should make sure that the people casting those votes understand exactly what was required.