Recent Parliament Debates

ACC

• Accident Compensation—Proposed Increase in Levies 10 Dec 2009
• Accident Compensation—Fairness of Scheme 15 Dec 2009
• Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Bill—Holiday Pay 16 Dec 2009

Adjournment

• Adjournment - Sittings of the House 16 Dec 2009

Agriculture

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions—Agricultural Sector Research 16 Dec 2009

Appropriation (2008/09 Financial Review) Bill

• First Reading 15 Dec 2009

Attorney-General

• Foreshore and Seabed Act—Threshold Tests Establishing Customary Interest 10 Dec 2009

Business Statement

• Business Statement 10 Dec 2009

Business of the House

• Business of the House 9 Dec 2009
• Business of the House 16 Dec 2009

Cluster Munitions (Prohibition) Bill

• Procedure 10 Dec 2009

Commerce

• Capital Market Development Taskforce—Recommendations 16 Dec 2009

Corrections

• Prisoners—Employment Opportunities and Training 10 Dec 2009

Education

• Te Reo Māori Examinations—Standards 10 Dec 2009
• Education, National Standards—Plain English Reports for Parents 10 Dec 2009
• Education, National Standards—Professor John Hattie’s Views 10 Dec 2009
• Education, National Standards—Endorsement 15 Dec 2009
• Education, National Standards—Minister’s Approach 15 Dec 2009
• Schools, Primary—Teaching of Reading and Writing 16 Dec 2009

Education (Polytechnics) Amendment Bill

• Second Reading 10 Dec 2009
• In Committee 15 Dec 2009
• Third Reading 16 Dec 2009

Electricity Industry Bill

• First Reading 15 Dec 2009

Energy and Resources

• Electricity Market—Ministerial Review Findings 10 Dec 2009
• Minerals Stocktake in Conservation Areas—Invitation to Minister 16 Dec 2009

Fair Trading (Soliciting on Behalf of Charities) Amendment Bill

• First Reading 9 Dec 2009

Finance

• Finance, Minister—Statements 10 Dec 2009
• Economy—Forecasts Compared with Budget 2009 15 Dec 2009
• GDP Growth—Government Plan to Close Income Gap with Australia 15 Dec 2009
• Economy—Management 16 Dec 2009
• Public Assets—Privatisation 16 Dec 2009

General Debate

• General Debate 9 Dec 2009

Housing

• Housing Affordability—Initiatives 16 Dec 2009

Justice

• Legal Aid—Review Report 10 Dec 2009

Legal Services Amendment Bill

• Third Reading 10 Dec 2009

Local Government

• Auckland, Local Government Reform—Minister’s Statements 15 Dec 2009

Local Government (Auckland Law Reform) Bill

• First Reading 15 Dec 2009

Maori Affairs

• Māori Affairs, Minister—Statements 15 Dec 2009

Methodist Church of New Zealand Trusts Bill

• Third Reading 9 Dec 2009

Motions

• Motions - Parliamentary Precincts—Addition of Premises 15 Dec 2009

Offices of Parliament

• Offices of Parliament - Appointment of Auditors—Controller and Auditor-General 15 Dec 2009

Points of Order

• Points of Order - Simultaneous Interpretation—Implementation 15 Dec 2009

Prime Minister

• Vulnerable Citizens—Prime Minister’s Statement 10 Dec 2009
• Greenhouse Gas Reduction—International Targets 10 Dec 2009
• Recession—Protection for Families 15 Dec 2009
• Climate Change, Copenhagen Conference—Draft Agreement 15 Dec 2009
• Climate Change, Copenhagen Conference—Legally Binding Agreement 16 Dec 2009
• Vulnerable Citizens—Prime Minister’s Statement 16 Dec 2009
• Recession—Protection for Families 16 Dec 2009

REPORTS

• REPORTS - Complaint Regarding the Medicines Regulations 1984—Consideration of Report of Regulations Review Committee 9 Dec 2009

Reports

• Reports - Complaint Regarding the Resource Management (Forms, Fees, and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 2009 (SR 2009/73)—Consideration of Interim Report of Regulations Review Committee 9 Dec 2009

Sittings of the House

• Sittings of the House 9 Dec 2009
• Sittings of the House 9 Dec 2009
• Sittings of the House 10 Dec 2009
• Sittings of the House 15 Dec 2009

Social Development and Employment

• Summer School Holiday Programmes—Progress 10 Dec 2009
• Work and Income—Improved Services 15 Dec 2009
• Family/Whānau Violence—Preventive Initiatives 15 Dec 2009

Speaker’s Rulings

• Speaker’s Rulings - Christ’s College (Canterbury) Amendment Bill—Classification 9 Dec 2009

Subordinate Legislation (Confirmation and Validation) Bill

• Procedure 10 Dec 2009
• Second Reading 10 Dec 2009

Tabling of Documents

• Tabling of Documents - Greenhouse Gas Reduction—Assessment of Government Target 9 Dec 2009

Transport

• Roading—Wellington: Levin Road 15 Dec 2009
• Roading—Wellington: Levin Road 16 Dec 2009

Urgent Debates Declined

• Urgent Debates Declined - Greenhouse Gas Reduction—2020 Target 9 Dec 2009

Other

• Urgent Question to Minister 10 Dec 2009
• Question Time 10 Dec 2009
• Question No. 6 to Minister 10 Dec 2009
• Question No. 8 to Minister 10 Dec 2009
• Question No. 2 to Minister 15 Dec 2009
• Question No. 8 to Minister 15 Dec 2009
• Question Time 16 Dec 2009

Visitors

• Visitors - Commonwealth Parliamentary Association—Parliamentary Delegation, Parliament of Canada 15 Dec 2009