Mentions of New Zealand Business Roundtable in New Zealand Parliament debates
New Zealand Business Roundtable has been mentioned in 86 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
Television New Zealand Amendment Bill
Third Reading 12 Jul 2011
SUE KEDGLEY ... because a whole series of letters attacking Radio New Zealand was uncovered. The letters had been written by the Business Roundtable and its lobbyist, one Barrie Saunders, who has now been appointed director of TVNZ. Barrie Saunders, a lobbyist for ...
Regulatory Standards Bill
First Reading 5 Jul 2011
Hon RODNEY HIDE
... Government Regulation. I would also like to acknowledge Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, for his tireless work in gaining support for this bill over the last 10 years.
The Regulatory Standards Bill aims to ...
... Regulation. I would also like to acknowledge Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, for his tireless work in gaining support for this bill over the last 10 years.
The Regulatory Standards Bill aims ...
Social Assistance (New Work Tests, Incentives, and Obligations) Amendment Bill
In Committee 17 Aug 2010
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA ... children in this country, and further penalise those in the most unfortunate of life circumstances.” That was not the Business Roundtable. That was not the Māori Council. That was not the Māori wardens. That was a recognised organisation that has supported ...
General Debate 19 May 2010
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... top 5 percent. Give them a windfall gain, while rape victims cannot get counselling. Borrow to fund tax cuts for the Business Roundtable, while elderly people cannot get home help. Tell someone on $70,000, who will be getting 50c a week if he or she is ...
Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill 2010
Third Reading 18 Nov 2010
SUE KEDGLEY Roger Kerr of the Business Roundtable will be listening with enormous satisfaction to this debate today. For 20 years he and the Business Roundtable have ...
In Committee 18 Nov 2010
SUE KEDGLEY ... there might be a lot of opposition, so they have managed to do it without allowing for public consultation. The Business Roundtable has been lobbying for just that for years. I have all of the papers here by Roger Kerr, going back over many years, ...
SUE KEDGLEY ... nature of the debate on this hugely significant bill before us. I am quite certain that Roger Kerr from the Business Roundtable is listening with mounting satisfaction as we debate all the parts of this bill. Roger Kerr, the Business Roundtable, ...
SUE KEDGLEY ... I would like to suggest for this bill. The first one is the “Rogernomics Part 2 Bill”, and the second one is the “Business Roundtable Implementation Bill” or the “Roger Kerr Implementation Bill”. It is the “Rogernomics Part 2 Bill” because it ...
SUE KEDGLEY ... been lobbying for this outcome and one can only imagine the amount of behind-the-scenes lobbying by Veolia Water, the Business Roundtable, Roger Kerr, and Suez to get this bill. Vested interests have been lobbying in secret to get this prize, which is what ...
Second Reading 17 Nov 2010
PHIL TWYFORD ... is the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill? It is the bedraggled and washed-up remains of Rodney Hide’s nutty Business Roundtable - inspired agenda to remake local government. He set off around the country last year with his TAFM paper, otherwise ...
PHIL TWYFORD ... opposition to the water privatisation provisions in this bill. No one except the Local Government Forum, which is the Business Roundtable with its local government hat on, thought that the core services idea was sensible. Hardly anyone had a good thing to ...
SUE KEDGLEY ... sinister bill, the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Bill, which implements the radical agenda of ACT and the Business Roundtable—what I call Rogernomics part 2—to reduce democracy in local government, gut local government consultation requirements,...
First Reading 4 May 2010
PHIL TWYFORD ... last year with his transparency, accountability, and financial management agenda. It was a cut-and-paste job from the Business Roundtable’s policy on local government. We saw a number of proposals for the rates-capping of local government, for mandatory ...
Employment Relations (Secret Ballot for Strikes) Amendment Bill
First Reading 21 Apr 2010
Darien Fenton What about the Business Roundtable?
Hon TREVOR MALLARD Well, it might be good for the Business Roundtable to take a secret ballot on some of its own policies. It is interesting, as one goes around the Business Roundtable, to ...
Minimum Wage (Mitigation of Youth Unemployment) Amendment Bill
First Reading 21 Apr 2010
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... the half-truth or part-truth approach that he took with this bill. Most of his colleagues, funders, and mates in the Business Roundtable actually would not agree with him, but I am certain that Mr Kerr and others who helped draft the legislation would say ...
DARIEN FENTON ... just do not stack up. I think we have moved past the economic rationalist arguments that we have seen from the Business Roundtable and from his supporters. We can look at the record of what happened under the previous Labour Government to New ...
Accident Compensation Amendment Bill 2009
In Committee 23 Feb 2010
Hon Ruth Dyson Business Roundtable.
DARIEN FENTON Or the Business Roundtable—who knows? I will talk a little bit about Part 1, but I want to explore the issue of privatisation, given that the ...
LYNNE PILLAY ... Hutchison: “We all pay a little; we all get a lot.” That is exactly what National members say when they talk to the Business Roundtable: “Under our new tax regime this is the plan: we all pay a little, and we all get a lot.” I know that Paul Hutchison is ...
Third Readings 17 Nov 2009
Hon DAVID PARKER ... emissions pricing. We are lucky to have her in New Zealand most of the time. She is a niece of Roger Kerr, from the Business Roundtable. She normally works at the Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Trust. There is no doubt about her credentials. ...
MOANA MACKEY ... Counsel Office told us it did not have time to do the work properly. Everyone said there was not enough time. The Business Roundtable said there was not enough time for it to do a proper submission. It was rung the day—the very day—it had to do its ...
Climate Change Issues
Emissions Trading Scheme—Effective Amendments 21 Oct 2009
Charles Chauvel How does the Minister respond to comments from the Business Roundtable that the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research - Infometrics modelling is not a satisfactory basis for analysing ...
Charles Chauvel I seek leave to table page 1 of the submission from the Business Roundtable, which states that the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research - Infometrics modelling is not a satisfactory basis ...
Remuneration Authority Amendment Bill
First Reading 24 Sep 2009
RAHUI KATENE
... for the total population of $537 per week. Why is that a concern for this Parliament? Rob McLeod, chairman of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, summed it up in a Treaty debate at Te Papa earlier this year. He said: “The current and increasing relative population ...
... total population of $537 per week. Why is that a concern for this Parliament? Rob McLeod, chairman of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, summed it up in a Treaty debate at Te Papa earlier this year. He said: “The current and increasing relative ...
Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill
First Reading 23 Sep 2009
Hon Sir ROGER DOUGLAS ... dependent on the whim of the majority. Should a majority, for example, be able to compel all businesses to join the Business Roundtable? I hope not. The principle of the matter is that no individual should be forced to fund any association at the whim of ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 5 Aug 2009
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ...hitehead’s speech and in Mr Weldon’s comments. We know Mr Weldon is now the contemporary version of the acolytes of the Business Roundtable. He is the kinder, gentler face. He has the ear of the Prime Minister, he ran the Job Summit—the talkfest—and he is ...
Inquiries Bill
First Reading 28 Jul 2009
DARIEN FENTON ... Government and the Trojan Horses that have been set up to achieve it: Don Brash, John Whitehead, Mark Weldon, and the Business Roundtable. They are all chiming in and chorusing loudly together about the need to sell off New Zealand. I would like to see ...
General Debate 24 Jun 2009
Hon DAMIEN O’CONNOR ... the Prime Minister. That is a question we will continue to ask. Which of his rich mates, which of the people on the Business Roundtable, drive the Prime Minister? We have been told that we are facing the worst economic crisis since the 1930s. We have ...
Budget Debate 3 Jun 2009
DARIEN FENTON ... the National Government. The Government is getting quite desperate when its members have to quote Roger Kerr of the Business Roundtable. There really is some desperation there. This is a low-road Budget. It is a Budget that takes a low road to the ...
General Debate 27 May 2009
JACINDA ARDERN ... we invited all political parties of the House to participate in. From that summit we also had attendees from the Business Roundtable, trade unions, three political parties, Business New Zealand, the New Zealand Retailers Association, the New Zealand ...
Wanganui District Council (Prohibition of Gang Insignia) Bill
In Committee 25 Mar 2009
Hon PETE HODGSON ... of itself over the years ever since it came to this House, always been consistent. I suppose it is a bit like the Business Roundtable. It is always consistent. One always knows what the Business Roundtable position on this or that will be. In my ...
Debate on Budget Policy Statement 25 Mar 2009
CRAIG FOSS ... 18 February. I would first like to acknowledge those who submitted on the Budget Policy Statement, particularly the Business Roundtable, Federated Farmers, chambers of commerce, and others. I do acknowledge the tight time frames that they had for ...
General Debate 11 Mar 2009
Hon ANNETTE KING ... that they no longer believed in bashing workers and beneficiaries, that the privatisation agenda was gone, that their Business Roundtable mates were gone, and that they were now “Labour-lite”. As John Key said, it was a matter of doing whatever it took ...
Securities Disclosure and Financial Advisers Amendment Bill
First Reading 3 Mar 2009
RAHUI KATENE ... capital markets for New Zealand. The task force, which includes Ngāti Porou business leader and the chair of the Business Roundtable, Rob McLeod, had been meeting, along with the Ministry of Economic Development, Treasury, the Reserve Bank, and the ...
Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Bill
First Reading 19 Feb 2009
RAHUI KATENE
... over a region with the kaitiaki authority over the resources of that region.
Contrary to the press release of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, which describes kaitiakitanga as one of a “plethora of fuzz terms” and as “vague and unquantifiable”, there are ...
... with the kaitiaki authority over the resources of that region.
Contrary to the press release of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, which describes kaitiakitanga as one of a “plethora of fuzz terms” and as “vague and unquantifiable”, there are ...
Electricity (Renewable Preference) Repeal Bill
First Reading 17 Dec 2008
Hon DAVID PARKER ... coal-fired power stations does not yet exist. It is in disarray because of what that Government has already done. The Business Roundtable is out there saying that it wants a carbon tax. The National-led Government has said that it will look at that in the ...
In Committee 17 Dec 2008
Hon DAVID PARKER ... will be anything near the real market price of carbon or will be at a low figure such as the figure proposed by the Business Roundtable, which would have little environmental effect and would not act to discourage more fossil-fuelled thermal electricity ...
Third Reading 17 Dec 2008
Hon DAVID PARKER I am sorry, Mr Assistant Speaker. The Government’s acolytes at the Business Roundtable—themselves fossils—are promoting fossil fuel use and a carbon tax, and they say it should be $5 to $10 a tonne. We ...
Business of Select Committees - Appointments
Appointments 11 Dec 2008
Hon DAVID PARKER ... gas lobby, the coal lobby, the smelters, the Major Electricity Users Group, the Greenhouse Policy Coalition, and the Business Roundtable, all of which are interlinked—if one looks at the individual members of these groups, one finds that they are just ...
Taxation (Urgent Measures and Annual Rates) Bill
In Committee 10 Dec 2008
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA ... and making out that research and development funding is something this country does not need, when the unions, the Business Roundtable, and the Government agreed that would be the best injection to go forward on. I ask the Māori Party what it is going ...
In Committee 10 Dec 2008
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... When they go up on the platform and slaver in front of Business New Zealand, the Chambers of Commerce, and the Business Roundtable, dripping sincerity, say, in the way only Tony Ryall and others can: “It is the private sector only that creates ...
Third Reading 10 Dec 2008
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... income bracket, 90 percent of whom Sir Roger Douglas thinks are wealthy. That is what happens when one sits round the Business Roundtable for too long. Other losers are many modest-income families, all families with kids that earn under $44,000, but also ...
Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill
In Committee 9 Sep 2008
Hon Dr NICK SMITH ... of dollars. It is a minor detail that will cost an organisation like the Anglican Church Pension Board—hardly the Business Roundtable—over $20 million. We say to the Government that the forestry provisions of this bill will not work, and if there is ...
Biofuel Bill
In Committee 3 Sep 2008
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... charge, but, of course, when the Government proposed a carbon charge, the ACT party opposed a carbon charge. The Business Roundtable is being followed faithfully by the ACT party in that respect. But ACT supports the emissions trading scheme, as long ...
Judicature (High Court Rules) Amendment Bill
First Reading 26 Aug 2008
CHARLES CHAUVEL
... existed; the New Zealand Bar Association; the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants, as it then was; the New Zealand Business Roundtable; the Ministry of Economic Development; and the Commerce Commission. The Ministry of Justice then commissioned an ...
...d; the New Zealand Bar Association; the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants, as it then was; the New Zealand Business Roundtable; the Ministry of Economic Development; and the Commerce Commission. The Ministry of Justice then commissioned an ...
Foreign Affairs
Pacific Region—Electoral Systems 5 Aug 2008
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS ...$20,000—for which today I will table the landlord’s letter, showing 9 years’ free rent was paid for by the head of the Business Roundtable in Remuera—should not be asking any questions in this House, and, better still—[ Interruption] I say “Over here Rodney;...
Pacific Region—Governments 31 Jul 2008
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS ... point. It is important to note, in the interests of honesty and transparency, that prominent businessmen from the Business Roundtable—whom I am happy to name—who donated to the ACT party were known around the ACT party office as “the girls” and had to ...
General Debate 25 Jun 2008
Dail Jones Business Roundtable.
Hon MAHARA OKEROA Oh, Business Roundtable. Yes, they are mates. I forgot them; put them in. He said separate seats are “a symbol of racial separatism.” and “an ...
LOUISA WALL ... to Māori, and that is to abolish the Māori seats with no consultation and no kōrero. They would rather listen to the Business Roundtable and a non-Māori academic. Will Māori put up with this? I know they will not. Frankly, National has no plan for the ...
Budget Debate 27 May 2008
Hon JIM ANDERTON ... or that; whether it will cut social services in order to give higher tax cuts. It should tell us about that. The Business Roundtable came out recently and said it wanted there to be a low flat-tax rate. Everyone in this House knows where he or she ...
Taxation (Personal Tax Cuts, Annual Rates, and Remedial Matters) Bill
In Committee 22 May 2008
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS ... ability, or experience. In fact, it is a disgrace that with all that money—$7 million of taxpayers’ funds and all the Business Roundtable funding, and all the capital markets money—those members are the best they can produce. It is a disgrace that with ...
General Debate 21 May 2008
Hon ANNETTE KING ... favour the present system”. This referendum will be a $3 million payback for the National Party’s big backers—the Business Roundtable, Mr Graeme Hunt, and others—who want to get rid of the small parties in this Parliament so that the National Party can ...
New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement Bill
First Reading 15 May 2008
MARTIN GALLAGHER ... we heard very interesting and fulsome submissions from the Seafood Industry Council and from groups such as the Business Roundtable. We also heard from Dr Norman from the Greens, and from Amnesty International. Those are just some examples of the ...
KEITH LOCKE ... origin, and with a couple of bits on electrical safety standards, whereas the select committee this morning had the Business Roundtable along to discuss the phase-out of tariffs to zero. None of that is covered in the bill. It is a very controversial, ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 13 Feb 2008
ANNE TOLLEY The Salvation Army. This is not the National Party or the Business Roundtable saying this. This is by the Salvation Army. What did the Prime Minister do? Did she talk about quality spending, did ...
Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement 12 Feb 2008
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS ... they said, because they were interested in only one thing. A lot of their supporters agreed, because they knew the Business Roundtable liked cheap labour. If we keep up high immigration, we drive wages down. We neglect to train and educate our own, and ...
Hon JIM ANDERTON ... is to cut taxes, but only for the wealthiest New Zealanders. Actually, that was the policy announced yesterday by the Business Roundtable. The silence from the National Party on that policy announcement was deafening. I made a statement on the policy, ...
Adjournment - Sittings of the House
Sittings of the House 18 Dec 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... of economic growth—the longest, strongest phase of economic growth in over 30 years in New Zealand. Even the Business Roundtable is starting to wonder whether in fact this can continue—this kind of death-defying, gravity-defying act, where, ...
Companies (Minority Buy-out Rights) Amendment Bill
First Reading 13 Dec 2007
Hon PAUL SWAIN ... that the National Party had agreed to in Government but had decided not to implement because of pressure from the Business Roundtable. We got it under way straight away to give minority shareholders rights at a time of takeovers. Then there was a ...
Taxation (Annual Rates, Business Taxation, KiwiSaver, and Remedial Matters) Bill
Second Reading 4 Dec 2007
Dr the Hon LOCKWOOD SMITH ... Representatives from Business New Zealand came along to the Finance and Expenditure Committee. This is not the Business Roundtable; these are the ones who are supposed to be friendly with the Government. They came along and said, bluntly, that the ...
Electoral Finance Bill
In Committee 6 Dec 2007
Nandor Tanczos They want the Business Roundtable to make the rules.
METIRIA TUREI That is exactly right; the National Party wants the Business Roundtable to make these decisions and to be able to provide it with all of that money. It does not want New Zealanders to make ...
METIRIA TUREI ... that political parties should not get anonymous donations from wealthy organisations and people like those in the Business Roundtable, people like David Richwhite—all of those people who have long reputations for certain kinds of behaviour in New ...
In Committee 5 Dec 2007
METIRIA TUREI ... with the National Party, for example, many of its donors, through secret trusts and by other secret measures, were Business Roundtable members. Millions of dollars were funnelled to the National Party by these means. Names that have been bandied around ...
In Committee 4 Dec 2007
METIRIA TUREI ... House. John Boscawen—I think that is how one says his name; I am not quite sure—is an ACT member and a member of the Business Roundtable. Clearly he is also an organiser of the marches in Auckland. Clearly, what is really important here is that he is ...
Second Reading 22 Nov 2007
METIRIA TUREI ... the horse-racing lobby and the Exclusive Brethren provided independent pro-National advertising. Some of the rich Business Roundtable supporters funded the biography of their leader Don Brash, which just happened to come out in election year. The Maxim ...
New Zealand Bill of Rights (Private Property Rights) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 7 Nov 2007
GORDON COPELAND
... the Property Council of New Zealand, Federated Farmers, the Treaty Tribes Coalition, Business New Zealand, the New Zealand Business Roundtable, and the Human Rights Commission.
The only significant naysayer in relation to the bill was the New Zealand Law ....
... Council of New Zealand, Federated Farmers, the Treaty Tribes Coalition, Business New Zealand, the New Zealand Business Roundtable, and the Human Rights Commission.
The only significant naysayer in relation to the bill was the New Zealand Law ...
Land Transport Management Amendment Bill 2007
First Reading 6 Nov 2007
MARTIN GALLAGHER ... duty for the National Land Transport Fund from 1 July next year. Members of the Opposition put up, and get their Business Roundtable mates to fund, a whole lot of billboards around the country. This Government does not talk about it; this Government ...
Employment Relations (Flexible Working Arrangements) Amendment Bill
Third Reading 21 Nov 2007
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... Party and New Zealand business people—Business New Zealand, the Employers and Manufacturers Association, and the Business Roundtable—who purport to represent the interests of business in New Zealand need to start to think a little more deeply than ...
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... is a bill that National members over there do not support, that Business New Zealand does not support, that the Business Roundtable does not support, and that the Employers and Manufacturers Association leadership does not support. We are told that ...
DARIEN FENTON ... mates at the big end of business. They talk a lot about first principles; their principles are the principles of the Business Roundtable. The member Sue Kedgley and the Government have bent over backwards to accommodate concerns from business about ...
LESLEY SOPER ... legislation. How do they live with themselves? Why do they oppose the bill? They oppose it because their mates—the Business Roundtable, the Employers and Manufacturers Association, and Business New Zealand—have told them to oppose it. It is not because ...
In Committee 17 Oct 2007
MARTIN GALLAGHER ... back this bill, and they certainly cannot back this Supplementary Order Paper, because their friends and mates in the Business Roundtable have picked up the phone and said they do not like the Employment Relations (Flexible Working Hours) Amendment Bill, ...
MARTIN GALLAGHER There are no choices for workers. All the choices are for the Business Roundtable and big business. In fact, this is giving us the next bit of the hidden agenda, which is out there. Make no bones ...
Justice
Electoral Finance Bill—Definition of Electoral Expense 15 Aug 2007
Rt Hon Winston Peters ... matter that cannot be raised in this House, I remind you that I was on the front bench of the National Party when the Business Roundtable not only bought the policy but put two people in the National Party organisation to write the industrial relations ...
Rt Hon Winston Peters ... the question was actually on the front bench of the National Party, which in those days included talks with the Business Roundtable but not with the rest of the caucus, which included Dr Lockwood Smith—and that is why he does not know—is it the case ...
Major Events Management Bill
Second Reading 14 Aug 2007
KEITH LOCKE ... can then just move on to eBay or some other site and trade them there. I do not often agree with Roger Kerr of the Business Roundtable, but I agree with his submission to the select committee that we should not interfere in the free market in this ....
Energy
Emissions Trading—Carbon Footprint Reduction 26 Jun 2007
Heather Roy ... the Greenhouse Policy Coalition, Federated Farmers, the Road Transport Forum, the Major Electricity Users Groups, the Business Roundtable, Business New Zealand, the New Zealand Chambers of Commerce and Industry, and the Wood Processors Association ...
General Debate 13 Jun 2007
Hon CLAYTON COSGROVE ... the people worked it out. I say that Tory arrogance is amazing. National members are going to their mates in the Business Roundtable and saying, as they did in 1990—as I was there, I remember it—“We will say and do anything to win. We will say we will ...
Social Security (Entitlement Cards) Amendment Bill
In Committee 10 May 2007
RUSSELL FAIRBROTHER ... senior citizens accessing, with convenience, the discounts that are to be offered by her neo-liberal friends in the Business Roundtable. The elitism of the neo-liberals, as typified by the ACT Party, is that not everybody should have equal access to all ...
Environment
Water—Tradability 28 Mar 2007
Hon DAVID BENSON-POPE ... it will not surprise the member to know that this Government and I do not generally agree with the policies of the Business Roundtable or its acolytes.
Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and Compensation Amendment Bill 2006
Third Reading 28 Feb 2007
DARIEN FENTON ... Bill was introduced into Parliament in September 1998. That bill came about because of major lobbying from the Business Roundtable, the Employers Federation, and the Insurance Council of New Zealand, with lobbyists from Australian insurance companies,...
Education
Early Childhood Education—Free Hours Policy 7 Dec 2006
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... better off if she did not believe the propaganda from the Early Childhood Council, which is a subcommittee of the Business Roundtable.
Social Development and Employment
Child, Youth and Family Services—Community Organisations and Service Providers 23 Nov 2006
Hon RUTH DYSON ... everything to do with money. National builds relationships with community groups, like the Exclusive Brethren and the Business Roundtable—
Employment Relations (Probationary Employment) Amendment Bill
Second Reading 22 Nov 2006
Hon MARK GOSCHE ... came in, in the Employment Contracts Act back in 1990. I am not alone in this view; Roger Kerr agrees with me. The Business Roundtable says that these people are a blight. So it is not a left/right argument that we have here. It is just common sense ...
Appropriation (Parliamentary Expenditure Validation) Bill
In Committee 18 Oct 2006
SANDRA GOUDIE
... is playing fast and loose with taxpayers’ money.
I bring everybody’s attention to a report by Roger Kerr from the New Zealand Business Roundtable. He comments that some politicians—and I would certainly say this applies to those members in the current Labour Party—do...
... fast and loose with taxpayers’ money.
I bring everybody’s attention to a report by Roger Kerr from the New Zealand Business Roundtable. He comments that some politicians—and I would certainly say this applies to those members in the current Labour Party—d...
Standards and Conformance Bill
Second Reading 5 Sep 2006
BRIAN CONNELL ...—she says, despite her rhetoric to the contrary, that the compliance costs are too hard to assess. In a speech to the Business Roundtable, Lianne Dalziel promised that regulatory impacts analysis would become fully integrated into the policy development ...
Insolvency Law Reform Bill
Second Reading 5 Sep 2006
HONE HARAWIRA
... of minimum costs without stifling innovation. But the bigger question remains. An article by the chairman of the New Zealand Business Roundtable in yesterday’s Dominion Post summed the issue up best: “Today the general unemployment rate is down to 3.6 per cent, ...
... many Māori workers are underutilised, and when the massive levels of unemployment for Māori can be described by the Business Roundtable as both economically wasteful and socially damaging?
Members should make no mistake: like the proposer of this bill, ...
Prime Minister
Electoral Finance Bill—New Zealand Herald Coverage 11 Dec 2007
Jeanette Fitzsimons Has the Prime Minister noted that the Business Roundtable’s John Boscawen paid $9,000 to get a Canadian call centre to make automated calls to 82,000 Aucklanders, urging them ...
Electoral Finance Bill—Cabinet Processes 4 Dec 2007
Jeanette Fitzsimons ...Hager’s book The Hollow Men, whereby the National Party in 2005 received secret millions of dollars from members of the Business Roundtable, including David Richwhite, Alan Gibbs, Doug Myers, and Peter Shirtcliffe?
Jeanette Fitzsimons In view of the millions of dollars in secret donations that, according to the evidence I just produced, the Business Roundtable has made to political parties of its choice, is the Prime Minister surprised, then, that the marches against the ...
Justice, Minister—Confidence 22 Aug 2007
Rt Hon HELEN CLARK Certainly, The is full of such references—for example, Rob McLeod of the Business Roundtable approaching Dr Brash and Mr Key to help arrange a donation to National from heirs to the Spencer family fortunes; for ...
Speech from the Throne—Political Integrity of Parliament and Electoral Process 5 Sep 2006
Hon David Benson-Pope Tell us about the Business Roundtable.
Hon David Benson-Pope What is that member’s relationship with the Business Roundtable?
KiwiSaver Bill
Third Reading 30 Aug 2006
JOHN KEY ... savings issues, and in that regard he is right about one thing, and I do not entirely agree with Roger Kerr of the Business Roundtable, who says that the only issue is national savings. I personally think household savings do matter. If national savings ...
In Committee 29 Aug 2006
CHRIS TREMAIN ... et al., who really focused on their belief that New Zealand did not have a long-term savings problem. Also, the Business Roundtable submission stated: “Long-run living standards were determined by economic growth and the ability of people to continue ...
SHANE JONES ... although we had tit for tat on our committee, not a single original idea emerged from the Opposition. We had the Business Roundtable serve up its usual ideological nonsense that there is no savings problem. Then we had the real experts—people who deal ...
Second Reading 24 Aug 2006
SHANE JONES ... which is how to mobilise a pool of savings. Two schools of thought were trotted out in front of us. One was from the Business Roundtable, which insisted that we read an ever-increasing number of tedious and unreadable reports produced by people who are ...
General Debate 23 Aug 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... was the one who headed the committee that set up GST. That man has yet to explain his close personal links with the Business Roundtable. Come on, I say to Don Brash—he should tell us about his close personal links with the Business Roundtable. [ ...
MOANA MACKEY ... that is a little difficult to accept. Why does he not have the guts to tell us about his close relationship with the Business Roundtable? Why does he not have the guts to tell us the truth about the Exclusive Brethren? Dr Brash claims to represent ...
Telecommunications Amendment Bill 2006
First Reading 29 Jun 2006
NANDOR TANCZOS ... taken. The reality is that just about everyone has been calling for these kinds of moves, except, perhaps, for the Business Roundtable and Federated Farmers. I have never quite understood the position of Federated Farmers, who seem to have taken the ...
General Debate 14 Jun 2006
Hon PHIL GOFF ... group in order to get that sort of money. National was supported also, of course, by another extremist group, the Business Roundtable. We have a clear idea of what National promised the Business Roundtable in order to get funding and policy support ...
Urgent Debates - Power Outage—Upper North Island
Power Outage—Upper North Island 13 Jun 2006
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... Party. Don Brash is an Auckland member. Why could he not speak? The rumour is that he was so busy consulting the Business Roundtable yesterday that he did not notice that the lights went out. That was the voice of the modern National Party, and it ...
Budget Debate 25 May 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... Perhaps she will tell me later, and we will learn about that. Of course, Dr Brash used to be extremely close to the Business Roundtable. He used to tell us that he believed in cutting health spending, cutting education spending, and cutting spending in ...
Communications
Telecommunications—Local Loop Unbundling 11 May 2006
Hon Brian Donnelly Is the Minister aware of responses by groups including the ACT party, the National Party, and the Business Roundtable—which advocate the efficacy of market mechanisms for both business and the delivery of social services—to the ...
Finance
Tax Cuts—Structural Surpluses 8 Nov 2007
Rt Hon Winston Peters ... is a Paul, and has he not heard reports of that as the basis of the relationship between the National Party and the Business Roundtable? Madam SPEAKER: The Minister cannot address the question on internal National Party affairs, but ...
KiwiSaver Scheme—Reports 22 Feb 2007
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... to one hand clapping—I have seen a very wide range, from compulsion to extraordinary claims from the likes of the Business Roundtable that we do not have a savings problem, at all. The one silent voice is that of the National Party, which opposes ...
Telecommunications Changes—Business Reaction 10 May 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... from the National Business Review applauding the decision. About the only negative reaction I have seen is from the Business Roundtable, Federated Farmers—which is yet to read the fine print—and the members opposite, who, of course, opposed it before ...
Debate on Budget Policy Statement 1 Mar 2006
GORDON COPELAND ... to do. The submissions to the Finance and Expenditure Committee from Federated Farmers, Business New Zealand, the Business Roundtable, and many others, all made this central point: it is time for the Government to rein in its bureaucracy and expenditure,...
Dr the Hon LOCKWOOD SMITH ... public on the Budget Policy Statement. Among members of the public were groups from the business world, including the Business Roundtable, Business New Zealand, and Federated Farmers. The Business Roundtable, admittedly, does not have a huge number of ...
Taxation (Annual Rates of income Tax 2005-06) Bill, Taxation (Urgent Measures) Bill, Student Loan Scheme Amendment Bill - Third Readings
Third Readings 13 Dec 2005
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS ... not bad enough, it topped it up with $3.5 billion of borrowings for the tax cuts it promised. I might well ask the Business Roundtable, the Chamber of Commerce, and all those august so-called commentators in economics, as to where they were in the ...