Mentions of Fisher and Paykel Healthcare Limited in New Zealand Parliament debates
Fisher and Paykel Healthcare Limited has been mentioned in 45 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 8 Feb 2011
Hon Dr WAYNE MAPP ... niches of a world economy … We will creep up on our competitors in the odd spots, in respiratory humidifiers”—such as Fisher and Paykel Healthcare—“in crystal-controlled oscillators for GPS on a chip”—such as with Rakon—“in magnetic resonance sensors for ...
Budget Debate 26 May 2010
MOANA MACKEY ... New Zealand went straight to the bottom of the OECD. I note that with National’s much-lauded new grants for business, Fisher and Paykel Healthcare has said that it will be getting a couple of million dollars out of those grants, but that is only half as ...
Carter Observatory Act Repeal Bill
Third Reading 26 May 2010
MOANA MACKEY ... tax credit did not do that. Of course, the grant system National has developed is only for large companies. Even Fisher and Paykel Healthcare, which expects to get a couple of million dollars out of the National Government’s grant system, said that ...
Smart Meters (Consumer Choice) Bill
First Reading 5 May 2010
AARON GILMORE ... meters that are more appropriate for New Zealand. New appliances will come on to the market from developers such as Fisher and Paykel, which is a world-leading developer of technology for appliances, and they will be able to access a standard of ...
DAVID CLENDON ... hoped that in his or her lifetime, smart appliances would be seen. I am not putting words in the mouth of Fisher and Paykel Appliances; I am not suggesting that that company is coming out in support of this bill, necessarily. But I spoke a few ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 17 Feb 2010
Hon Dr WAYNE MAPP ... that shows how we can build the New Zealand economy to go forward. I mention, for instance, another case in point: Fisher and Paykel Healthcare. That company has grown over a relatively short number of years to be one that had $500 million in revenue ...
Taxation (Budget Tax Measures) Bill
Third Reading 29 May 2009
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... the research and development tax credits, and cutting tertiary education spending. Let us take the classic example of Fisher and Paykel Appliances Ltd—that iconic company that Bill English overruled John Key on when John Key wanted to bail it out. The ...
ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area Bill
First Reading 28 Apr 2009
Hon PETE HODGSON ...; the awareness that negotiators have on the particular effects of this or that clause on a particular company, such as Fisher and Paykel Appliances, are becoming more and more obvious; and the very vulnerable sectors—and there are some; textiles, clothing, ...
Taxation (Business Tax Measures) Bill
Third Reading 26 Mar 2009
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE The member says everybody supports it. I think it is great that at Fisher and Paykel Appliances, for instance, 60 jobs have been preserved. I think that is fantastic. But that is 4,000 jobs if we throw in ...
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... battle away to save their jobs. But the problem is that if we add 4,000 jobs for the cycleway, take 60 jobs out of Fisher and Paykel Appliances, and lose 1,000 jobs a week—and we have lost 30,000-plus in the last 3 months—and then the Prime Minister ...
BRENDON BURNS ... if it proceeds. The 9-day fortnight, which is now going to assist employers, is welcome assistance, but 60 jobs at Fisher and Paykel Appliances are a long way short of the 100,000 jobs that were suggested. The Government has some other byplays going ...
Debate on Budget Policy Statement 25 Mar 2009
Hon PHIL GOFF ... I thought that, in certain circumstances, it could be a very good thing. I support today’s move to save 60 jobs at Fisher and Paykel Appliances, but I ask Mr English why the 60 workers who were laid off today at Solid Energy will not have the option of ...
CHRIS TREMAIN ... it. The job support scheme and the 9-day fortnight are also coming into play. The Prime Minister said here today that Fisher and Paykel Appliances have been able to take up that 9-day fortnight initiative. Three-hundred and twenty jobs have been protected ...
General Debate 11 Mar 2009
SUE MORONEY ... what it was with the National Government. It is OK for it to say that it might use taxpayer funds to bail out Fisher and Paykel Appliances, that it might use taxpayer funds for a whole range of private business entities, and that it will bring ...
Housing
Shared Equity Scheme—Reports 19 Feb 2009
Hon George Hawkins ... making it so hard for young Kiwis to get into new homes, when on the other hand its leader seems to be offering Fisher and Paykel Appliances shareholders the promise of extensive help?
General Debate 18 Feb 2009
SUE BRADFORD ... in the weeks ahead. I turn briefly now to another high-risk area for unemployment; the difficulties in which Fisher and Paykel Appliances currently finds itself have highlighted another pressure point in the economy. The Green Party finds it ...
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... not always been positive. I ask the Prime Minister why he is so afraid to front up to what he has been saying about Fisher and Paykel Appliances. During question time today—
Hon TREVOR MALLARD Did he say it or did he not? Did he or did he not say that he would not let Fisher and Paykel Appliances collapse? All we want from the Prime Minister is the truth. In the Chamber earlier today he said that ...
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... when he is in the Chamber but when he is outside it he is prepared to make statements? He said he would not let Fisher and Paykel Appliances collapse. Did he say it once? Yes. Did he say it twice? Yes, he did; he said it twice. We want to know who ...
New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement Bill
In Committee 23 Jul 2008
TIM GROSER ... see some of them step up in terms of scale. Frankly, in order to transform our country we need to have only about 20 Fisher and Paykel Healthcares, if you will—I could use another example—to utterly transform this country and get it back into the top ...
Taxation (International Taxation, Life Insurance, and Remedial Matters) Bill
First Reading 23 Jul 2008
SUE BRADFORD ... who create environmental and social benefits by not carting fish back and forth across the planet. The bill will give Fisher and Paykel a tax cut for the whiteware it makes in Mexico, but not for the whiteware it makes in Auckland. To all those companies,...
Waste Minimisation Bill
Third Reading 11 Sep 2008
NICKY WAGNER ... almost impossible to recycle. Some very successful voluntary schemes are in place, such as those of Resene Paints and Fisher and Paykel—and we have made sure that they are eligible for accreditation under this bill. The Minister can also declare certain ...
In Committee 30 Jul 2008
NICKY WAGNER ... are a mixture of different materials that make recycling impossible. During the select committee process we visited Fisher and Paykel and its recycling and recovery operation. We were really impressed to hear how the company collected old whiteware, ...
JACQUI DEAN ... and a regulatory process to encourage and foster product stewardship schemes. My colleague Nicky Wagner mentioned Fisher and Paykel as particularly good pioneers in product stewardship. I understand that the New Zealand Packaging Accord 2004 has also ...
Second Reading 18 Jun 2008
JACQUI DEAN ... the bill have been dumped. It is worth noting that voluntary product stewardship schemes already exist—for example, Fisher and Paykel have such a scheme as, of course, part of the packaging accord. Business as a whole is keen to retain the voluntary ...
Finance and Expenditure
Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill—Submissions 21 May 2008
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... Ltd was heard with the Institute of Refrigeration, Heating and Air Conditioning Engineers of New Zealand and Fisher and Paykel Appliances Ltd, and just before the Trust for the Destruction of Ozone Depleting Substances. All those entities wanted ...
General Debate 14 May 2008
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... where Tenix Shipbuilding let 60 jobs go. Before that, there were down days in Mosgiel as 450 jobs disappeared from Fisher and Paykel. Another 50 jobs were lost when Tamahine Knitwear closed its doors; a possible 150 jobs were lost in Ashburton when ...
Climate Change Issues
Climate Change—Statement 14 May 2008
Hon Dr Nick Smith ... not have to pay, which is a policy that will put at risk thousands of New Zealand jobs in companies like Temperzone, Fisher and Paykel, and Skope Industries; if so, why?
Justice
Election Spending—Parliamentary Funding 17 Apr 2008
Hon Bill English ... is taking its economic transformation agenda to a new level”, which is presumably a comment on the closure of Fisher and Paykel?
Finance
Prime Minister—Promises 27 May 2009
Hon JOHN KEY ... I do know that when I stood up in this House and supported a 9-day fortnight, which saved jobs at companies like Fisher and Paykel Appliances Ltd—and good on them for sorting out their problems today—the Labour Opposition criticised it. I do know ...
Nine-day Working Fortnight—Employment 28 Apr 2009
Hon David Cunliffe ... worthwhile, were simply inadequate; if so, how can he insist that the 9-day fortnight has been successful when Fisher and Paykel Appliances has cut another 20 Kiwi jobs after having received public funds from the scheme?
Company Bail-out Criteria—Advice 19 Feb 2009
John Boscawen Why would this Government even remotely consider propping up a private company like Fisher and Paykel Appliances when it clearly has the very simple option of making a pro rata cash issue to its existing shareholders to ...
Company Bail-outs—Criteria 18 Feb 2009
Hon David Cunliffe ... surprised at the very cautious reaction of a range of business leaders to the Prime Minister’s possible bail-out of Fisher and Paykel Appliances, and in his view could this lie behind the Prime Minister’s clarification today that what was unthinkable—to ...
Hon David Cunliffe Does the Minister have any advice as to the costs to, say, Fisher and Paykel Appliances of the removal of the research and development tax incentives, and can he confirm that it was the Government’s...
Prime Minister—Ideas 17 Feb 2009
Hon David Cunliffe ... discussions with the Prime Minister about his off-the-cuff suggestion made at yesterday’s press conference that Fisher and Paykel Appliances may be in need of a bail-out, or does he believe that such speculation may risk further undermining of ...
Hon Trevor Mallard Has the Prime Minister given Fisher and Paykel Appliances an undertaking that that company will not be allowed to collapse?
Hon Trevor Mallard ... was a very good general answer, the question was a very specific one: has the Prime Minister given an assurance to Fisher and Paykel Appliances?
Mr SPEAKER ... him with. The first is that the Minister is not responsible for what the Prime Minister may or may not have said to Fisher and Paykel Appliances. Secondly, the question is getting very specific, when there was a very general primary question. I think ...
Budget 2008—Government Spending 17 Apr 2008
Hon Bill English ... Labour decide to spend $600 million to pay for more jobs for diplomats on the day that 430 workers lost their jobs at Fisher and Paykel, when large-sized, low-quality Government spending is one reason why our manufacturers can no longer compete ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN I think it would be obvious to anybody that this decision was made before anyone in the Government knew of Fisher and Paykel’s intentions in that regard and of the sad loss of jobs at the Mosgiel plant. I say to the member that if he really ...
Hon Bill English Has the Minister seen the comments by the chief executive of Fisher and Paykel: “We have been faced for many years with an extremely unhelpful exchange rate fuelled by high interest rates. ...
Rt Hon Winston Peters Has the Minister received any reports suggesting that there are alternative economic policies in respect of helping Fisher and Paykel, and has he read the book The Hollow Men, which, in respect of the National Party’s treatment of these issues, says “you...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... is part of the Labour Party, in terms of affiliation—as the member likes to point out—has worked for a long-time with Fisher and Paykel at the Mosgiel plant to improve its production. Those workers are highly skilled workers, but the fact is that round ...
Hon Bill English Does the Minister think that when the workers at Fisher and Paykel believed what Labour said about the jobs machine and economic transformation, they thought Labour meant that no wages ...
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... that corporate tax rate cut—I presume National members argue that corporate taxes should have been put up so that the Fisher and Paykel plant could remain open.
Auckland Regional Amenities Funding Bill
First Reading 19 Sep 2007
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... 4.9 percent, and wastewater rates by 9.4 percent earlier this year faced the loss of 350 jobs with the closure of the Fisher and Paykel plant in East Tāmaki. This is the same region in which between 1991 and 2001 rents shot up by a massive 68 percent ...
Income Tax Bill 2006
Second Reading 16 Aug 2007
Craig Foss Such as Fisher and Paykel.
Taxation (Annual Rates, Business Taxation, KiwiSaver, and Remedial Matters) Bill
First Reading 17 May 2007
TE URUROA FLAVELL ... in New Zealand by New Zealand businesses. Of course, it is probably too late to prevent our iconic industry, Fisher and Paykel, from moving itself and its manufacturing operations to Thailand. It is unfortunate that Thailand pulled out all the ...
Social Security Amendment Bill
First Reading 8 May 2007
Dr PITA SHARPLES ... of appropriate jobs. I am concerned at the impact in my very own electorate of TamakiMakaurau of the closing of the Fisher and Paykel factory and the loss of 350 jobs. This House demands to know the economic philosophies and circumstances that have ...
Dr PAUL HUTCHISON ... go sky high and exporters have been crippled because of it. When we hear David Benson-Pope showing some sympathy for Fisher and Paykel, we should just remember that his Government has been utterly profligate. When we look at his plans in this bill to ...
General Debate 2 May 2007
CHRIS TREMAIN ... received a press release It did not receive much pick-up in the national media, because it did not rate with the Fisher and Paykel story or the other recent big stories that were hitting the news, such as the announcement from Skellerup. It was ...
Prime Minister
Job Creation—Statement Made on Behalf of Prime Minister 16 Jun 2011
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... business, with new investment, and exporting, and a business that actually took a number of the workers from Fisher and Paykel Appliances when it took its factory to Mexico. We want to create the opportunity for those workers from Hillside to get ...
Jobs—Jobs Lost Since Job Summit 29 Jul 2009
Hon BILL ENGLISH ... a rolling maul of initiatives to give people the opportunity to keep their jobs or to get new ones. For instance, Fisher and Paykel Appliances’ refrigeration plant now has sufficient orders to enable it—[ Interruption] Members should listen to this; ...
Job Summit—Prime Minister’s Statement 30 Jun 2009
Hon Phil Goff ... Walker Rudkin, but he boasted last week in the House that the Government had saved an iconic company in reference to Fisher and Paykel Appliances Ltd?
Hon JOHN KEY ... Leader of the Opposition raised the last bit of his question, because when I stood up and tried to do something for Fisher and Paykel Appliances, the Leader of the Opposition bagged me. It is actually a company that went on the 9-day working fortnight, ...
Job Summit—Creation of Jobs 24 Jun 2009
Hon JOHN KEY ... being in this House just a few months ago when the Opposition was criticising me for doing that programme for Fisher and Paykel Appliances. Well, today Fisher and Paykel Appliances has got its balance sheet in order. The private sector has come to ...
Nine-day Working Fortnight—Fisher and Paykel Appliances 25 Mar 2009
Hon JOHN KEY I have received a report today that Fisher and Paykel Appliances has negotiated with its workforce to take up the Government’s 9-day fortnight scheme. As a result, it is my ...
Nathan Guy Are there other elements to the Fisher and Paykel Appliances announcement?
Hon JOHN KEY Yes, there are. Fisher and Paykel Appliances has announced that employees will work a 35-hour week, which will be supplemented by an additional 3.5 hours’...
Hon Phil Goff Does the advice he has received from his officials that the 60 jobs—not 350 jobs—saved today at Fisher and Paykel Appliances, as cited in the statement from the company, mean that he is now on track—[ Interruption] Can I start again, ...
Hon JOHN KEY Firstly, let us get it right. There are 350 workers at Fisher and Paykel Appliances who are guaranteed their jobs for the next 6 months. There would have been many more—up to 60—who would have ...
Hon Phil Goff: I seek leave to table two documents. The first is the statement made today by Fisher and Paykel Appliances that it would prevent about 60 redundancies.
Unemployment Rate—Increase 18 Feb 2009
Hon Phil Goff Does Mr English—his good colleague, I think he said—support his assurance to Fisher and Paykel Appliances that the firm would not be allowed to fail, or are Mr English’s comments, as reported in the Dominion Post ...
Hon JOHN KEY Firstly, no assurance has been given to Fisher and Paykel Appliances that it will not be allowed to fail. Those are the facts of life. Mr Mallard’s running around the press ...
Hon Phil Goff I seek leave of the House to table this document, which says that Mr Key says allowing Fisher and Paykel Appliances to fail would be unacceptable.
Hon Phil Goff Is the Prime Minister telling the House that his comment quoted on NewZealand.co.uk that letting Fisher and Paykel Appliances fail would be unacceptable is therefore inaccurate?
Hon JOHN KEY ... at changing the rules. The answer was that I think failure there is unacceptable. No assurances have been given to Fisher and Paykel Appliances that it will not be allowed to fail. That does not mean that the Government does not reserve the right to ...
Economy—OECD Ratings 1 May 2007
John Key What does the Prime Minister have to say to the 350 workers at Fisher and Paykel, who lost their jobs because of business conditions in New Zealand, other than what she said on breakfast TV on Monday, ...
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK Of course, one of the key factors cited by Fisher and Paykel was that when its competitor—based in Australia—ceased manufacture, the company lost its preference in that market, and ...
John Key Does the Prime Minister anticipate more job losses in the months ahead, along the lines announced last week by Fisher and Paykel?
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 18 Jul 2006
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... Focus centre is, in his opinion. I do not know about other people, but I would back the big successful companies like Fisher and Paykel that are in there—they are not a failed Al Bundy shoe salesman—against Mr Blumsky’s experienced and skilled opinion ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 14 Feb 2006
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ...’s beef jerky; PanaHome, who make wood products; Click Clack, plastic suppliers; Ion Automotive; Renaissance Furniture; Fisher and Paykel Ltd, appliance manufacturers; Skeggs Group, frozen peas; clothing firms making clothes for the iconic brand Icebreaker; ...
Economic Development
Economic Development, Ministry—Grant Programmes 17 Apr 2008
Chris Tremain ... Kiwi Made Sector and Regional Initiatives Fund advertising campaign, when 430 workers are out of a job today because Fisher and Paykel has been forced to relocate manufacturing offshore?
Hon Bill English I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. I notice that the Government did not actually put down a question about Fisher and Paykel. Perhaps it would like to put down a question about the next announcement from Dunedin that the Tamāhine Apparel ...
New Zealand Focus Store—Sales Data, Hong Kong 16 May 2006
Hon TREVOR MALLARD Yes, and, to explain, that is because most of the sales data belongs to Air New Zealand, education providers, Fisher and Paykel, and New Zealand Natural.
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... of New Zealand Natural products, the supply of air fares to New Zealand, the services of education providers, the Fisher and Paykel contracts right up into China—[ Interruption] I say to Nick Smith that at least I can count, unlike him.
Hon TREVOR MALLARD The latest report I have seen is from Malcolm Harris, the Chief Operating Officer for Fisher and Paykel, who last week said: “We applaud the Government initiative. It’s about time, and we hope that they open more.” We know ...
Mark Blumsky Why did the glowing statement that the Minister just made about Fisher and Paykel not include the fact that the company still cannot demonstrate its gas hobs because, in the 6 months since the opening, ...
New Zealand Focus Store—North Asia Sales 11 May 2006
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... I seek leave to table a statement, dated today, by Malcolm Harris, chief operating officer for New Zealand of Fisher and Paykel, one of the tenants at the centre, who says that he applauds the Government initiative, it is about time for it, and he ...
Mark Blumsky ... visited the store that the key feature of the New Zealand Focus store, which is promoted as a fully functional Fisher and Paykel kitchen fitted with operating appliances to be used for business demonstrations and training, 5 months after opening ...
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE I do not have all that data in front of me, but I do have a statement from Fisher and Paykel that it applauds the Government’s initiative, it wants us to open more stores, and it is about time for this initiative.
Exports—Asian Markets 24 Nov 2005
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... by a back-bench member in his party were found not to be of suitable standard to go there, but a company like Fisher and Paykel has a fully functioning kitchen to show off its products, and it is a great opportunity to grow the $2.2 billion worth ...