Mentions of National Council of Women of New Zealand in New Zealand Parliament debates

SU’A WILLIAM SIO ... point further. One of the submissions that I will raise for the sake of the Minister is the submission made by the National Council of Women. It made the point that families are being marginalised. It believes we urgently need to find ways to recognise ...

Hon STEVE CHADWICK ... approach. The other issue that was raised when we drafted our Domestic Violence Reform Bill came from the National Council of Women, who are predominantly very sensible, pragmatic women involved in family violence prevention support services, or who ...

STUART NASH ... arise in the absence of gift duty.” The institute went on to list five. The Institute of Chartered Accountants, the National Council of Women, and the Law Society all expressed concerns regarding the impact of the abolition on family protection and relationship ...

KEVIN HAGUE ... of the New Zealand Aids Foundation, alongside my colleagues from the New Zealand Family Planning Association, the National Council of Women, the Māori Women’s Welfare League, the Public Health Association, the New Zealand Federation of Business and ...

KEVIN HAGUE ... of the New Zealand Aids Foundation, alongside my colleagues from the New Zealand Family Planning Association, the National Council of Women, the Māori Women’s Welfare League, the Public Health Association, the New Zealand Federation of Business and ...

KEVIN HAGUE ... of the New Zealand Aids Foundation, alongside my colleagues from the New Zealand Family Planning Association, the National Council of Women, the Māori Women’s Welfare League, the Public Health Association, the New Zealand Federation of Business and ...

CARMEL SEPULONI ... of the Affordable Housing: Enabling Territorial Authorities Act. I would like to focus on one in particular, from the National Council of Women. The council expressed its concern that the section on restrictive covenants no longer prohibited those who aim to ...

CAROL BEAUMONT ... some very specific concerns about the discriminatory impact of the proposed changes. I have raised the fact that the National Council of Women has raised concerns about the disproportionate effect of these changes—a whole number of them—on women. Has the Minister ...

KEVIN HAGUE ... funding and back to “pay as you go” funding. To the list of organisations that Mr Woodhouse spoke about, I add the National Council of Women, the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services, the ACC Futures Coalition, the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions,...

CAROL BEAUMONT ... That is one of the inequities of the various provisions in Part 1. Then there is the issue of gender. When the National Council of Women submitted to the Transport and Industrial Relations Committee, it was very scathing about the fact that no gender ...

KEVIN HAGUE ... 33 organisations and individuals included the ACC Futures Coalition, the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, the National Council of Women, the Service and Food Workers Union, the Maritime Union, the Rail and Maritime Transport Union, the New Zealand ...

RAHUI KATENE ... household costs. Reduced access to accident compensation will also impact negatively on child poverty rates. The National Council of Women suggested that women are more vulnerable to negative outcomes through a lack of social services, and the bill will ...

JACINDA ARDERN ... domestic violence legislation. It was raised with regard to police safety orders. There is ongoing concern from the National Council of Women and Women’s Refuge that when we use tools of the law, we need to provide women with adequate information and support to ...

Hon STEVE CHADWICK ... Domestic Violence Reform Bill. It was a wonderful bill that was a result of our going out to communities, with the National Council of Women and all of the intervention and support services, to see how to make protection orders work. The National Council of ...

CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... Institute of Technology, the Manukau Institute of Technology, the Wairarapa Rural Education Activities Programme, the National Council of Women, Waiariki Polytechnic, The Open Polytechnic, Unitec, the Waikato Institute of Technology, etc., etc. Nobody denied that ...

TE URUROA FLAVELL ... us when this bill came before the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee was an observation made by the National Council of Women. It suggested that the claim that the bill will contribute to public confidence in the financial system seems contrived. ...

PAUL QUINN ...aker—with the range of organisations that supported this bill. There was, of course, the Sensible Sentencing Trust, the National Council of Women of New Zealand fully supported it, and the Human Rights Commission strongly supported it. Then, of course, we had the ...

CATHERINE DELAHUNTY ... its support for tino rangatiratanga, was present, and took a strong stand. Also present were representatives from the National Council of Women, the Auckland City Youth Council, the Ponsonby Economics Study Group, the Tamaki Community Board, the Auckland Regional ...

Dr PITA SHARPLES ... exclusion when people are unable to move freely about their communities and are trapped within their own homes. The National Council of Women told the committee that there is a lack of public transport in rural towns and in regions. In fact, as a consequence of ...

Hon DAVID BENSON-POPE ... previous speaker, Mr Power, I join the New Zealand Law Society; Unicef New Zealand; the Human Rights Commission; the National Council of Women; Women’s Refuge; the Prisoners Aid and Rehabilitation Society; the Child Abuse Prevention Services; Activate, which is ...

Hon ANNETTE KING ... that if this one change was made, many of their concerns about the bill would evaporate. Many groups, such as the National Council of Women, Greenpeace, and the Coalition for Open Government, have said that the changes made to the bill address their concerns. ...

LESLEY SOPER ... New Zealand Federation of Business and Professional Women, the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, Grey Power, the National Council of Women of New Zealand, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation, and many other unions—do not know their own minds or know what is ...

TE URUROA FLAVELL ... put it, “as swift, inexpensive, informal, and lawyer free as possible”. We endorse the comments made by the National Council of Women, which warned that the legislation must not make the process so cumbersome that whānau members—family members—avoid it ...

TARIANA TURIA ... to such concepts. I was interested to note in the submissions to the Justice and Electoral Committee from the National Council of Women a view that in addition to having the safeguards in the bill, its members suggested that any witness to a will should ...

HONE HARAWIRA ... Whenua Maori Act will not be affected by this bill. Another issue of interpretation was the point raised by the National Council of Women in its submission about the lack of clarity around the definition of homicide in this bill. The first clause of the ...

HONE HARAWIRA ... Committee that still need closer attention. Negligence is one of those issues. I note the submission from the National Council of Women recommending that causing death by negligence, such as when someone driving negligently causes the death of a passenger ...

JUDY TURNER ... entitled to have one of these cards. One of the other questions was around the issue of identity cards. I think the National Council of Women queried whether people who currently hold a community services card would no longer need it, as the information that ...

TARIANA TURIA ... Professional Women, the Human Rights Commission, the National Advisory Council on the Employment of Women, and the National Council of Women. It was the view of these submitters that the proposals being debated today will enable women to legitimately enjoy the ...

HONE HARAWIRA ... to our fair shores. We were not surprised that submitters also held very strong views about quality standards. The National Council of Women said that competency standards were crucial to improving the quality of advice and that a robust external consultation ...

HONE HARAWIRA ... tertiary education in order to help reduce student costs and student debt. We also support the submission from the National Council of Women, which stated that although some people claim education is primarily a private good and therefore students should pay ...

CHRIS AUCHINVOLE ... for customers to have a transference of systems, which the Minister mentioned in his opening speech on the bill. The National Council of Women, the New Zealand Law Society, the New Zealand Marketing Association, the Privacy Commissioner, Microsoft, the New ...

TARIANA TURIA ... court to be preserved. “All New Zealanders” does not include the widespread community opposition, opposition that the National Council of Women returned to in its press release last month supporting the repeal of the Foreshore and Seabed Act. Despite the futile ...

HONE HARAWIRA ... Party’s 2 percent entry point, once more decisions are being made that will work against the poor brown Kiwi. The National Council of Women said a family’s ability to save depended on the amount of spare cash that the family had, and it asked Parliament to ...

JUDY TURNER ... own at that stage. It is right and proper that this bill is passed and the respect it creates is acknowledged. The National Council of Women was also keen to add its support, and it made the comment that it felt that this complemented the Ministry of Health’s “ag...