Education Minister Erica Stanford has said David Seymour overstepped the mark in his role as associate with his crackdown on teacher-only days last year.
The Minister said Seymour did not run the announcement past her before making it.
Seymour disputes the overstep.
"We've got a set of rules which are very clear, and we work very well together, but of course there's always people who try and beat these things up," he said.
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