The committee, comprising senior MPs and chaired by Attorney-General David Parker, has been tasked with investigating whether Ms Tinetti’s delay in correcting a statement to the House amounted to a "contempt of Parliament" or breach of privilege.
The accusation revolved around Ms Tinetti claiming in February she had no responsibility for the release of attendance data, but was told later that day by staff that was an error.
However, she failed to correct the record until early May, when the Speaker of the House Adrian Rurawhe wrote to her to explain she needed to do so.
On Tuesday, Mr Rurawhe announced the matter was being referred to the committee — on Thursday, Mr Parker, the Government’s lawyer, said Ms Tinetti had been sent a letter containing some follow-up questions, to which a response is expected by Tuesday.
The committee planned to hear from her in person next Thursday.
In the resort to attend the Rural Teaching Principals’ Conference, Ms Tinetti told the Otago Daily Times she used to be a rural and teaching principal in Southland, and she welcomed the opportunity to engage with the conference delegates to understand "where we can be helping a little bit [more]", to make their jobs easier "so they can be the best".
After speaking at the conference, Ms Tinetti visited Queenstown Primary School and attended an assembly, where she helped present Principal and Deputy Principal’s Awards, and was herself presented with the school’s highest award, Mahi Pai.
Queenstown Primary School will finally begin an almost total rebuild of the school on Thursday, announced three years ago, which will include installation of 10 relocatable classrooms from Wakatipu High School, and the subsequent demolition of several old buildings.
Meanwhile, discussions were still continuing over the future education needs in the Wakatipu, particularly given Wakatipu High School had now reached its site capacity and once the school hit its pupil capacity of 1800, expected to occur by the end of this decade, another high school — or a second high school campus — would be required.
Ms Tinetti said Queenstown had been identified as one of several "areas of growth" and while she was unable to go into detail, when it came to the high school issue, "nothing is off the table".
