Lobbyists

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (14:45): Supplementary: as a minister of the Crown, is the minister aware of the Lobbyists Act 2015 and the section that defines the purposes of lobbying and the definition of lobbying? Section 4(3) states:

(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), a person will not be taken to communicate with a public official on behalf of a third party if the third party is a designated organisation and the person, being an employee of the organisation, communicates with the public official in the ordinary course of that employment.

I would hope that as a minister of the Crown she would be aware of that; the opposition surely isn't.

The PRESIDENT: That is not a supplementary question arising from the answer, as we all know.

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!