Mentions of Child Poverty Action Group in New Zealand Parliament debates
Child Poverty Action Group has been mentioned in 59 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Crimes Amendment Bill (No 2) 2011
Second Reading 13 Sep 2011
SU’A WILLIAM SIO ... a step in the right direction. Why? Because we have seen the reports from Every Child Counts and the report from the Child Poverty Action Group, which said that there is a relationship between poverty and violence and between poverty and child abuse. I was ...
SU’A WILLIAM SIO ... I think that National members need to be reading the reports of Every Child Counts, reading the reports of the Child Poverty Action Group, and looking at those recommendations. Labour certainly is doing so, and Labour will focus on making children the centre ...
METIRIA TUREI ... people personally to account, but also as a community and as an economy. There was an earlier discussion around the Child Poverty Action Group’s report Left Further Behind. This is the report that the Minister for Social Development and ...
Taxation (Annual Rates and Budget Measures) Bill
In Committee 20 May 2011
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... to talk about Part 2 of the Taxation (Annual Rates and Budget Measures) Bill. This morning some of us attended the Child Poverty Action Group breakfast, where the issues we are discussing in Part 2, “KiwiSaver and Working for Families”, were identified as worthy ...
CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... people who are in that marginal area and who really needed Working for Families to stay the same. I think it was Child Poverty Action Group members who said this morning that they do not have a problem with the richest people losing Working for Families ...
Debate on Budget Policy Statement 9 Mar 2011
RAHUI KATENE ... said that, I will return to the Minister of Finance’s words about protecting the most vulnerable. Earlier today the Child Poverty Action Group issued a release drawing attention to research from the University of Auckland demonstrating that many low-income ...
General Debate 27 Oct 2010
Hon ANNETTE KING ... become a major focus of this Government’s expenditure and policy development. Have we heard about children? As the Child Poverty Action Group said, children have become invisible in New Zealand. They are invisible to this Government. The Government will say it ...
Social Assistance (New Work Tests, Incentives, and Obligations) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 5 Aug 2010
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... re-complies. Of course it is not just beneficiaries who will bear the brunt of this policy’s effects. In fact, the Child Poverty Action Group also warns that the changes proposed under the Government’s future focus legislation—which insists on 15 hours’ paid ...
General Debate 21 Jul 2010
RAHUI KATENE ... income children, and child poverty’s disproportionate impacts on Māori have long been brought to our attention by the Child Poverty Action Group. This group has told us that one in six New Zealand children lives in poverty, that a third of children live in ...
Credit Reforms (Responsible Lending) Bill
First Reading 21 Jul 2010
CAROL BEAUMONT ... is required to ensure families do not end up on the breadline because they have borrowed from an unscrupulous lender. Child Poverty Action Group says that the charging of outrageous interest rates is one of the cruellest aspects of unregulated lending, and talks ...
Taxation (Budget Measures) Bill, Government Superannuation Fund Amendment Act 1969 Amendment Bill, National Provident Fund Restructuring Amendment Bill, Social Security Amendment Bill, War Pensions Amendment Bill (No 2), New Zealand Superannuation and Ret - Third Readings
Third Readings 21 May 2010
RAHUI KATENE ... The entire country will suffer if the number of children living in poverty continues to rise. We agree with the Child Poverty Action Group that the Government could have used the opportunity of the tax reforms to improve incomes for beneficiaries with ...
Methodist Church of New Zealand Trusts Bill
Third Reading 9 Dec 2009
RAHUI KATENE ... grants to pay for school uniforms, stationery, exam fees, and compulsory fees has soared in the past year. The Child Poverty Action Group estimates that some 240,000 children live in families that do not qualify for the additional help given to others in the ...
Customs and Excise (Prohibition of Imports Made by Slave Labour) Amendment Bill
First Reading 29 Jul 2009
... Of course, it is not as if New Zealand has got its own backyard looking pristine and clean. The Child Poverty Action Group said that in 2008 one in six New Zealand children still lived in a household below the very lowest poverty lines. So we ...
Finance
Recession—Government Actions for Economic Growth 21 Oct 2009
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... strong view about the in-work tax credit, and that it has been a matter of some litigation between the Crown and the Child Poverty Action Group. We are following with interest both the debate about its effectiveness and the legal proceedings.
Economy—Performance Compared with Other Countries 24 Jun 2009
Te Ururoa Flavell Tēnā koe, Mr Speaker. Has the Minister seen the analysis by Child Poverty Action Group economist Dr Susan St John that New Zealand has one of the highest levels of income disparity in the OECD, and what work ...
Supplementary Estimates - Imprest Supply Debate
Imprest Supply Debate 23 Jun 2009
Hon TARIANA TURIA ... it is disappointing that the estimates contain so little about incentives for our most vulnerable populations. The Child Poverty Action Group spells out in no uncertain terms that “Insisting on fiscal prudence now at the expense of children will prove to be very ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 5 Aug 2008
HONE HARAWIRA ... saying that 75,000 old people are living in poverty, and another 230,000 are living just above the poverty line. The Child Poverty Action Group tells us that 230,000 kids are denied benefits simply because their parents cannot get a job. We know that ...
Maiden Statement 1 Jul 2008
Dr RUSSEL NORMAN ... drugs. “You’re gonna reap just what ya sow.”, and we are reaping in South Auckland and Bridge Pa. Last month the Child Poverty Action Group said New Zealand had the fastest growth in income and wealth inequality in the OECD. I will repeat that, because I did ...
Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Bill (No 2) 2007
Third Reading 26 Jun 2008
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... ruling to be made on another case now before the Human Rights Review Tribunal. I refer to the case taken by the Child Poverty Action Group, in which it alleges the in-work tax credit discriminates against 220,000 children on the basis of work status. This is ...
Summary Offences (Tagging and Graffiti Vandalism) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 19 Jun 2008
HONE HARAWIRA ... crime than tagging, because poverty is a crime against humanity. Poverty is a crime against society. When we see the Child Poverty Action Group suing the Government for denying 150,000 children an entitlement granted to other children, we all know which one of the ...
Taxation (Personal Tax Cuts, Annual Rates, and Remedial Matters) Bill
First Reading 22 May 2008
HONE HARAWIRA ... is that I am talking on behalf of the poorer people in this country. I am talking on behalf of organisations like the Child Poverty Action Group. I am talking on behalf of the Salvation Army. I am talking on behalf of all of those social service agencies that have ...
Budget Debate 22 May 2008
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... but those in part-time work and those on low pay scales. Of these 1.8 million people 10 percent are children who the Child Poverty Action Group has revealed are living in severe and significant hardship. The Public Health Association describes these children as an ...
Justice
Human Rights—Discriminatory Legislation 20 May 2008
Hon Tariana Turia Is the Minister aware that the Child Poverty Action Group has initiated legal proceedings regarding the Government’s in-work tax credit, claiming the policy is discriminatory on ...
Commerce Amendment Bill 2008
First Reading 20 Mar 2008
HONE HARAWIRA ... predictability for consumers. We will be interested in hearing the views of beneficiary groups, energy watchdogs, the Child Poverty Action Group, and other consumer bodies as to how they see this bill either helping or harming their constituents’ futures. In ...
Financial Review Debate - In Committee
In Committee 19 Mar 2008
SUE BRADFORD ... are the children of beneficiaries—particularly sole parents—and many of them are tangata whenua. According to the Child Poverty Action Group, the incomes of superannuitants have risen by 8.5 percent in real terms since 1999. The action group says that “between ...
Debate on Budget Policy Statement 12 Mar 2008
Dr the Hon LOCKWOOD SMITH ... that made submissions. So too did social interest organisations. There was a submission from one group called the Child Poverty Action Group, which is actually an interesting name for a bunch of researchers from Auckland University. This group is based at ...
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... desperately need capital investment in our rail system; we desperately need more investment in public transport. The Child Poverty Action Group came to the Finance and Expenditure Committee when we were looking at the Budget Policy Statement and said there are ...
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... our youngest and most vulnerable citizens are continuing to live in severe or significant hardship. We agree with the Child Poverty Action Group that what we need most is a poverty prevention success story. This Budget Policy Statement is not that.
Income Tax Bill 2006
Second Reading 16 Aug 2007
HONE HARAWIRA ... calls this “justifiable discrimination”—get that! Ripping-off the poor is now called justifiable discrimination. The Child Poverty Action Group says that passing laws that impact negatively on the health and well-being of children can never be considered ...
Appropriation (2007/08 Estimates) Bill
Third Reading 14 Aug 2007
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... in the lack of robust data for measuring the growth in disparities or policy failures in the area of monitoring. The Child Poverty Action Group has identified that virtually identical names have been transferred across family assistance strategies, yet those ...
Standing Orders—Suspension 8 Aug 2007
TARIANA TURIA ... going home to caravans, garages, and low-quality boarding houses, where health and well-being are compromised. The Child Poverty Action Group has identified the particular implications on children of overcrowding in South Auckland homes, and it has pointed out ...
Electricity (Disconnection and Low Fixed Charges) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 10 Apr 2008
HONE HARAWIRA ... poverty is a national bloody disgrace. This morning the Māori Party hosted Kate Green, the chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group in Britain. She told us about the perception that there is a deserving and an undeserving poor. There is sympathy for ...
First Reading 26 Jul 2007
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... o te mana o nga koporeihana, kāore ngā kaimahi i te tino ngākau nui i te hapori i runga i te ngākau atawhai. Ko tā Child Poverty Action Group, ko te pūtake o te raru, ko tērā e kī ana, “Kāore e taea e ngā kaupapa o te mākete te whakarite huarahi hei manaaki i ngā...
... corporate environment is so influential that staff are discouraged from making decisions on humanitarian grounds. The Child Poverty Action Group The bill we are considering today is but one part of a greater picture that reflects the need for economic changes to ...
Urgent Debates - Mercury Energy—Disconnection of Electricity Supply
Mercury Energy—Disconnection of Electricity Supply 12 Jun 2007
... neglect for years. Every member of this House will have been approached by advocacy groups such as Grey Power, the Child Poverty Action Group, and others who have warned us all that the savage and consistent toll of rising rates, electricity, and other prices is ...
Taxation (KiwiSaver and Company Tax Rate Amendments) Bill
Third Reading 17 May 2007
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... increase in severe hardship. These are the children whom people talked about this morning in a meeting hosted by the Child Poverty Action Group to share their bitter disappointment at the lack of vision in this Budget. These are the children who will not benefit ...
Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 16 May 2007
SUE BRADFORD ... the Families Commission, the Office of the Children’s Commissioner, EPOCH, Every Child Counts, the Body Shop, the Child Poverty Action Group, Parents Centres, and many, many others. I am sorry I cannot name them all. Many individuals have also played a key ...
International Finance Agreements Amendment Bill
First Reading 9 May 2007
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... low-income families with children—showing significant increases in the proportions of people in severe hardship. The Child Poverty Action Group health spokesperson, the paediatrician Professor Innes Asher, has told us that the vast range of health statistics show ...
Social Security Amendment Bill
Third Reading 21 Jun 2007
SUE BRADFORD ... portfolio. This risk was, firstly, because some of the matters contained in the report were relevant to the Child Poverty Action Group case against the in-work payment, and, secondly, because the Ministry of Social Development believed that: “The report ...
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... depend upon—voluntary work, looking after our children, our sick, our elderly, our needy. The submission from the Child Poverty Action Group highlighted that this bill further entrenches the divide between deserving and undeserving children—a surprising key ...
First Reading 8 May 2007
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... that there has been a transfer of 8.5 percent of people from the unemployment benefit to the sickness benefit. The Child Poverty Action Group has explained the increase in the number of people on sickness and invalids benefits as being part of a broader cycle ...
Prime Minister
Child Poverty—Effect of 2011 Funding 13 Sep 2011
Hon Annette King Does he agree with the Minister for Social Development and Employment, who said today that the report from the Child Poverty Action Group released yesterday is a political document and a rehash of work already done, and does this mean that the Government ...
Hon Annette King ... to measure poverty and an underclass in New Zealand when he was in Opposition, and if he was using figures from the Child Poverty Action Group then, as Bill English was, why will he not accept its figures now?
Metiria Turei Does the Prime Minister agree with the Child Poverty Action Group that successive Governments—Labour and National—have failed the poorest children in New Zealand with discriminatory ...
Recession—Prime Minister’s Statements 14 Dec 2010
Rahui Katene What consideration will he give to recommendations from the Māori Party, the Child Poverty Action Group, and the Alternative Welfare Working Group for the in-work tax credit to be extended to all low-income families as an ...
Vulnerable Citizens—Prime Minister’s Statements 29 Jul 2010
Te Ururoa Flavell Tēnā koe, Mr Speaker. He aha tāna whakautu ki te wero o te ripoata What Works Counts nō te rōpū Child Poverty Action Group e kōrero ana, nā te tirohanga whāiti o te Kāwanatanga ki te pūmahi o ngā mātua, kua mahue atu ngā tamariki ki te taha; ā,...
Hon BILL ENGLISH We do not agree with the Child Poverty Action Group that the Government is single-mindedly focused on parents in work—
Hon BILL ENGLISH The Government does not agree with the Child Poverty Action Group that it has a single-minded focus on parents in work. I think the coalition is referring to an evaluation of Working for ...
Smacking Ban—Prime Minister's View 28 Mar 2007
Sue Bradford ... and organisations are supporting my bill, including the Children’s Commissioner, the Families Commission, the Child Poverty Action Group, Parents Centres, the Parenting Council, Presbyterian Support, the New Zealand Psychological Society, the National ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 13 Feb 2007
TARIANA TURIA ... there can be no more stark reminder of the urgent need for action than in the education sector. Research from the Child Poverty Action Group suggests that more than 10 percent of the 125,000 children in the poorest schools are malnourished and need food to ...
Social Security (Long-term Residential Care) Amendment Bill 2006
Second Reading 7 Nov 2006
TARIANA TURIA ... testing poses huge intergenerational equity questions. And I want today to warmly congratulate Susan St John and the Child Poverty Action Group on the historic decision by the High Court yesterday, asserting the right of that group to act on behalf of children ...
Social Development and Employment
Child Poverty—Left Further Behind Recommendations 15 Sep 2011
Hon ANNETTE KING Which, if any, of the seven key recommendations of the Child Poverty Action Group’s report Left Further Behind will the Government be implementing?
Hon Annette King Does she agree with the Child Poverty Action Group that the position of children is a lot worse than it was 3 years ago, and that the longer that children spend in poverty ...
Hon PAULA BENNETT I struggle to agree with pretty much anything that is in the Child Poverty Action Group report; it is so political. In fact, I think it is so political that it could almost carry a Labour Party authorisation ...
Hon Annette King Is she aware that one of the key recommendations from the Child Poverty Action Group’s report is to ensure training allowances to support sole parents to go into education, to enable them to move into ...
Hon PAULA BENNETT I think I have made it quite clear that I do not put merit on the Labour document that is the Child Poverty Action Group’s report, which, quite frankly, is just a rehash of old policies and of what Labour perhaps intends to do, depending on ...
Child Poverty—Estimated Cost Per Year 8 Sep 2011
Hon Annette King ... therefore she could not comment on the accuracy of figures arising from various reports, has she considered using the Child Poverty Action Group figures; if not, why not?
Hon Annette King If the Child Poverty Action Group figures are not acceptable to the National Government, why were they acceptable and used by the current Minister of ...
Child Poverty—Estimated Cost Per Year 7 Sep 2011
Hon Annette King ... of child well-being, the household incomes inequality report, the Children’s Social Health Monitor report, the Child Poverty Action Group’s annual reports, the OECD Doing Better for Children report, and the Every Child Counts report—every one of them ...
Child Poverty—Government Action 27 Oct 2010
Hon Annette King Has she seen the report from the Child Poverty Action Group, which states that before the election National made political capital out of a so-called underclass in New Zealand, but ...
Hon JUDITH COLLINS I have not seen the report from the Child Poverty Action Group. I can, however, say that under the very best economic times that the previous Labour Government inherited it was not ...
Unemployment—Minister’s Statement 4 May 2010
Rahui Katene Has the Minister seen the recommendation from the Child Poverty Action Group that the Government could use the opportunity of the tax reforms to improve incomes for beneficiaries with children by ...
Rahui Katene Has the Minister seen the recommendation from the Child Poverty Action Group that the Government could use the opportunity of the tax reforms to improve incomes for beneficiaries with children by ...
Māori Child Poverty—Government Interventions 7 Aug 2008
Hon Tariana Turia ... can be measured to adopt a sustained coordinated plan of action to end child poverty in New Zealand, as urged by the Child Poverty Action Group?
Working for Families—Reports 29 Jul 2008
Hon Tariana Turia Does the Minister agree with the Child Poverty Action Group that our poorest children have been left behind in a callous disregard for their well-being, and for the future societal ...
Benefit System—Government Actions 15 May 2008
Hon RUTH DYSON ... as “the greatest redistribution of wealth—downwards—we’ve had in 30 years.” I have also seen a report from the Child Poverty Action Group that indicated that child poverty in New Zealand is the result of policies implemented by the National Government in the ...
Working for Families—Number of Families Benefiting 13 May 2008
Hon RUTH DYSON I have seen, and welcome, a report from the Child Poverty Action Group, which indicates that child poverty in New Zealand is the result of policies implemented by the National Government in ...
Dr Pita Sharples Tēnā koe, Madam Speaker. Tēna tātou katoa. How will the Government defend the case being brought by the Child Poverty Action Group to the Human Rights Review Tribunal next month; a case that challenges the Government’s Working for Families package and ...
Superannuation—Rate Changes 12 Mar 2008
Dr Pita Sharples Tēnā koe, Madam Speaker. Tēnā tātou katoa. Has the Minister read the advice released yesterday by the Child Poverty Action Group, which suggests that although New Zealand’s superannuation is a great success story in preventing hardship amongst the ...
Hon RUTH DYSON ... who are dependent on the benefit system has now substantially reduced since the living standards report to which the Child Poverty Action Group report referred to. I just remind the House of my earlier point that under Labour the difference for a married couple on ...
Dr Pita Sharples I seek leave to table a release from the Child Poverty Action Group, “Children need to share a poverty prevention success story”.
Child Poverty—Unicef Rankings 15 Feb 2007
Sue Bradford ... that still face some of our children; and what action will he be taking in response to the recent statement from the Child Poverty Action Group, that “minimum incomes still need urgent Government attention”?
Hon DAVID BENSON-POPE ... 1 April 2006, rising to over $80 per week by 2008. In terms of the question of the comment made by Dr Turner from the Child Poverty Action Group, I draw the member’s attention to the earlier part of the quote, which was: “CPAG research showed that current ...
Social Inclusion—Minister’s Statement 24 Oct 2006
Tariana Turia ... who are being excluded from the Working for Families in-work payment and who remain in poverty, as identified by the Child Poverty Action Group and other leading social commentators?
Appropriation (Parliamentary Expenditure Validation) Bill
First Reading 17 Oct 2006
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... who have at least one parent on a benefit. How can this Government sit silent, knowing that it has forced the Child Poverty Action Group to take legal action in the High Court over the in-work payment—the $60 a week that beneficiary families are prevented ...
Weathertight Homes Resolution Services Bill 2006
First Reading 31 Aug 2006
TARIANA TURIA ...encies—including the North Hokianga Housing Trust, the Cooperative Housing Association of Aotearoa New Zealand, and the Child Poverty Action Group—got together in 2003 and made a submission for the New Zealand report to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural ...
KiwiSaver Bill
Third Reading 30 Aug 2006
HONE HARAWIRA ... home pay of $290—the price of a Bordeaux, according to my colleague Mr Gordon Copeland. Another point raised by the Child Poverty Action Group was that taxpayers had to carry all the risk. There is no Crown guarantee for KiwiSaver schemes, which makes all the ...
Minimum Wage and Remuneration Amendment Bill
First Reading 23 Aug 2006
HONE HARAWIRA ... itself on its growth and its wealth, it is to our enduring shame that we can even have an organisation called the Child Poverty Action Group. Yet we do. That group has also supported the call for a rise in the minimum wage in order for our poorest children’s ...
Appropriation (2006/07 Estimates) Bill
Third Reading 1 Aug 2006
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... A concerted effort is required if we are ever to address the national emergency of poverty. Dr Nikki Turner of the Child Poverty Action Group has described the greatest impact and cost of deprivation as being the shocking health status of our children. She has ...
Child Support Amendment Bill (No 4)
Second Reading 15 Jun 2006
TARIANA TURIA ... of the liable parent. The suffering child provoked an immediate controversy, with the Children’s Agenda, the Child Poverty Action Group, the centre for child and family studies at Auckland University, the Hillary Commission for Sport, Fitness and Leisure, ...
Taxation (Annual Rates and Urgent Measures) Bill
First Reading 16 Nov 2005
SUE BRADFORD ... need it most, just because one of their parents is not in the paid workforce for 30 hours a week, or more. As the Child Poverty Action Group stated last week, “it is misleading for the Governor General to claim that the change ‘will mean tax relief for every ...