Trinci­ty Mal­oney MP Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has crit­i­cised the Speak­er of the House, ar­gu­ing that Stand­ing Or­der 28(3) is at risk of be­com­ing an “un­chal­lenge­able shield” for gov­ern­ment se­cre­cy af­ter min­is­ters again re­fused to an­swer ques­tions in Par­lia­ment.

Her com­ments fol­low Wednes­day's sit­ting which Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter in­voked the “pub­lic in­ter­est” ex­emp­tion to de­cline ques­tions, and the Speak­er backed the re­fusal while lim­it­ing at­tempts by Mar­vin Gon­za­les to fur­ther chal­lenge.

Robin­son-Reg­is said MPs must still be al­lowed to test the ba­sis of such re­fusals.