The ACT party is fuming over the trespass notices issued to Winston Peters and large numbers of other people who were at February's illegal occupation of parliament grounds.
Parliament's security team sent the letters, but the Speaker Trevor Mallard is ultimately responsible.
He chairs the Parliamentary Service Commission, a cross party committee of MPs which met yesterday to discuss the decision and whether former MPs should be exempt.
Mallard is not speaking this morning but last night tweeted.
"The Parliamentary Service Commission met today to consider the narrow question of whether former MPs should be exempted from the general policy that resulted in trespass orders being issued to those identified as trespassing during recent protests at parliament.
Only the Act Party supported such an exemption". ACT leader David Seymour told RNZ political editor Jane Patterson it doesn't make sense.
Mallard is refusing to say how many trespass notices have been issued.
National's Chris Bishop says anyone who was at the protest after its first few days and could be identified has been banned.
