CHRIS BISHOP (National): Thank you, Madam Chair. I want to add some further questions for the Minister the Rt Hon Trevor Mallard's consideration and the House's ventilation of the issues in relation to the court case that didn't go to trial but that was a live issue throughout most of 2020. We know that these issues and proceedings we are talking about date to May 2019. Later on that year, there was the filing of a statement of claim by the plaintiff to the Speaker, the Minister in charge of Parliamentary Service, and there was an exchange of letters between counsel for both parties—pre-trial skirmishing, I think you would say. I want to ask the Minister, in particular, why his lawyers told the plaintiff that he would defend the case vigorously and why his lawyers said that his reputation would be at the centrepiece of the trial, and I want to know why he did that in the context of what we now know to be true, or what we now accept as the truth, which is that the Minister knew within 24 hours that what he'd said was wrong. It's worth recalling that's what we were told in the Governance and Administration Committee hearing in relation to the annual review of the Parliamentary Service: that the Speaker, who came on his own volition to tell us in response to a question from me, knew within 24 hours that he'd made a mistake. 