QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS
Economic Programme—Interest Rates 1. Hon PHIL HEATLEY (National—Whangarei) to the Minister of Finance: How will the Government’s responsible fiscal management help to ensure interest rates will remain lower than they were in the previous economic cycle? [click to continue…]
A bill expanding parole extended supervision orders has been sent to select committee for consideration. [click to continue…]
More questions about Malaysian diplomat accused of sexual assault. Questions also about water quality in New Zealand rivers.
Parliament Today - July 3
More questions about Malaysian diplomat accused of sexual assault. Questions also about water quality in New Zealand rivers. Read More...
Parliament Today - July 2
Questions & urgent debate about the granting of diplomatic immunity for a Malaysian diplomat accused of sexual assault. PM & David Cunliffe at loggerheads over school donations policy. Read More...
Parliament Today - July 1
Trevor Mallard gets a ribbing over reported comments about the extinct moa. Questions about ACT education policy. Complaint about the length of Steven Joyce’s answers. Greens grill Conservation Minister over plight of Maui’s Dolphins. Read More...
The Week in Parliament - June 27
Health Committee considers a petition calling for greater choice in mental health treatment methods and better options for reducing dependence on psychiatric medication. CTU & Forest Owners Assoc. make submissions on Health and Safety Reform ill. Read More...
The Week in Parliament - June 27
Sue Moroney’s Parental Leave ill comes up again. Urgency for West Coast Wind-blown Timber (Conservation Lands) ill. Usual shenanigans in Question Time, with Trevor Mallard thrown out by the Speaker on Wednesday. Read More...
Parliament Today - June 26
House goes into urgency to pass a bill to allow processing of West Coast native timber felled by Cyclone Ita. Government and Opposition members butt heads. Questions about domestic violence. CTU & Forest Owners Assoc. make submissions on Health and Safety Reform ill. Read More...
Parliament Today - June 25
Trevor Mallard tests the Speaker’s patience, eventually getting booted from the Chamber. Health Committee considers a petition calling for greater choice in mental health treatment methods and better options for reducing dependence on psychiatric medication. Read More...
Parliament Today - June 24
John ey bats off Green Party concerns about Maui’s Dolphins. The PM takes a similar approach to questions about unemployment. Read More...
The Week in Parliament - June 20
State Services Minister Jonathan Coleman faces a grilling about the impartiality of the Rebstock Report into MFAT leak. Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy also finds himself under fire, appearing before the Primary Production Committee and facing questions about the Fonterra botulism scare. Read More...
The Week in Parliament - June 20
Speaker accepts John anks’ resignation but denies a snap debate on the matter. The result of a separate debate cancels a by-election in Epsom. David Cunliffe attempts to capitalise attacks on him over the Liu donations fiasco. Read More...
