Most recent appearances in parliament
If this MP has contributed more than once to a debate, only one speech is shown.
- Education (Polytechnics) Amendment Bill - Third Reading (16 Dec 2009)
Speech expand: "There we have it: at the eleventh hour in the third reading of the Education (Polytechnics) Amendment Bill, the Government is scrambling to find a reason to pass this appalling bill. Colin King, a Government member of Parliament, has come up with yet another ..."
- Education (Polytechnics) Amendment Bill - In Committee (15 Dec 2009)
Speech expand: "This is a very interesting day in New Zealand politics. Māori have learnt today that they can have a flag, which some of them agree with, on one day of the year, but they cannot have a seat around the table in their polytechnics, where they rely on so many ..."
- Education (Polytechnics) Amendment Bill - Second Reading (10 Dec 2009)
Speech expand: "That last speech was rather telling. The member who has just resumed his seat, Allan Peachey, is the chairperson of the Education and Science Committee, whose job it is to defend to the hilt the Government’s proposal in this regard. We have all just ..."
- Adult and Community Education—Redundancies (9 Dec 2009)
Question: "If it is costing Melville High School in Hamilton around $80,000 to pay for two redundancies, what has she suggested that the principal of Melville High cuts from that school’s operational grant in 2010 to afford the necessary and rightful redundancy payments?"
- Family/Whānau Violence—Preventative Initiatives (25 Nov 2009)
Question: "Why, then, has the Minister allowed her Government to increase the trauma of sexual violence by making it harder for victims of sexual abuse to get help through accident compensation, with 111 people having dropped out of the system already across New Zealand?"