Kimberley Kitching (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Government Accountability) | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Cormann. When asked yesterday why the Prime Minister was allowing the member for Chisholm to dodge accountability to the parliament, the minister said that the statement:

… was tabled in the parliament. It has got the force of being tabled in the parliament in her name.

But the very same day the Speaker of the House ruled that:

… if a member is tabling a statement that's made outside the House, that really is just a record of a statement.

Who is right: this minister or the Speaker? Why is the Prime Minister assisting the member for Chisholm to dodge parliamentary accountability?