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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-643/
- Published: 2022-09-07T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-09-07T03:44:12.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

> Former Speaker, and soon-to-be ambassador to Ireland, Trevor Mallard’s decision to issue Winston Peters with a trespass notice from Parliament cost taxpayers’ more than $23,000 in legal fees.  
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> \[…\] Chris Bishop says this is Mallard’s “final insult to taxpayers'”.  
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> “He’s cost the taxpayer another $23,500 in legal bills because of his illegal attempts to trespass a former Deputy Prime Minister and a bunch of other MPs from the Parliamentary forecourt, after the protests earlier this year.”  
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> Along with Peters, Mallard issued the trespass notices to former Act leader Rodney Hide, former Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox, former NZ First list MP Darroch Ball and former National MP – turned Democracy NZ leader – Matt King in early May.  
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> NewstalkZB

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