The House
Legislation, issues and insights from Parliament.
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It is hard to pin down a minister in Question Time, when each has a doppelgänger ready to deflect the blame or shoulder the responsibility. Winston Peters this week said more or less 'you should ask the other Winston, here's not here right now'.
The saga over a cancelled $35 million government project continued this week, with Labour MP Phil Twyford appearing before the committee.
All the most overdue responses to Written Questions are addressed to the MP responsible for ensuring prompt answers, and for enabling a responsible government.
The primary production committee heard from DOC and MPI this week during a briefing on bird flu.
MPs held a Special Debate on issues raised by Petitions this Parliament. There have been 685 petitions so far on, so that’s a wide remit. The debate ranged from genocide to a specific road fence.
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This week, Parliament had 29 more MPs than usual. Not because of an early election, but because 29 female parliamentarians from across the Pacific were in Wellington for wānanga focused on leadership, decision-making and driving change across the region.
The House looks at what business MPs had waiting for them upon their return to Parliament this week.
The first members day in nearly two months provided a nice vignette into the value of select committee public consultation
Parliament's justice committee spent most of the sitting break listening to submissions from the public on the move on orders legislation
With a slew of policy announcements, there also comes fresh calls for a Parliamentary Budget Office. But what should the remit of such an institution be? The House chats to Economist Dr Eric Crampton about the proposal.
Louise Upston gives her take on her new part-time full-time job: managing the Government’s entire legislative programme as Leader of the House.
We ask whether ministers can evade questions by claiming operational independence, and note some key bills from a huge week.
As Parliament stretches into the weekend in a debating marathon, we note four bills being completed and four others just beginning their legislative journey.
With ten third readings during Parliament's urgency week, a suite of bills are now on the cusp of becoming law, pending the largely ceremonial box-tick of Royal Assent.
Can a minister, asked how his agency achieves its targets, use the 'not my circus, not my monkey' tactic? Tama Potaka did. What are the rules?
Before Parliament got down into the trenches for urgency, it debated a declaration from the Supreme Court that particular legislation was inconsistent with NZBORA
Allegations that officials kept ministers and MPs in the dark, and MPs as bad examples. Plus, the Speaker quashes Question Time electioneering.
Immigration officials are under investigation for allegedly misleading a Parliament committee. Are MPs bad role models?
Remember the biblical parable of the Good Samaritan? Well this week, Parliament's Health Select Committee has been hearing oral submissions on a member's bill that some have dubbed the "Good Samaritan Bill".
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