Parliament - Live Stream and Question Time

MELISSA LEE to the Minister of Finance: What decisions has the Government made to ensure multinational companies pay their fair share of tax?

2.      JAMES SHAW to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his Government’s policies?

3.      GRANT ROBERTSON to the Minister of Finance: Has the number of 15 to 24-year-olds not in education, employment, or training according to the Household Labour Force Survey increased since the same quarter last year; if so, by how many?

4.      MATT DOOCEY to the Minister of Health: What announcement has he made in relation to filling the Chair positions at Canterbury and South Canterbury District Health Boards?

5.      RON MARK to the Minister of Finance: Is he satisfied with Government policy on overseas investment?

6.      PHIL TWYFORD to the Minister for Building and Construction: Do MBIE officials still advise that the shortfall of housing in Auckland is projected to continue beyond 2030?

7.      MAUREEN PUGH to the Minister of Corrections: What recent announcement has she made regarding a partnership between the Department of Corrections and employers to get offenders into work and reduce their chance of reoffending?

8.      CHRIS HIPKINS to the Minister of Education: Is she satisfied that after nine years of a National-led Government all children and young people are receiving all the support that they need to succeed in education?

9.      RON MARK to the Minister of Police: Does she stand by all her statements?

10.  CHRIS BISHOP to the Associate Minister for the Environment: How is the Government supporting the recycling of PET plastics in New Zealand?

11.  JENNY SALESA to the Minister of Health: Does he think it’s acceptable that after nine years of a National-led Government the Ministry of Health’s budget bid shows it does not have “an understanding of the mental health population, workforce, and interventions”, according to Treasury?

12.  JAN LOGIE to the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety: What are the differences between the recommendations of the Joint Working Group on Pay Equity Principles and the pay equity bill that the Government has introduced?

JAMES SHAW to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his Government’s policies?

JACINDA ARDERN to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by his statement, “our approach to housing is succeeding”, given that just one in five New Zealanders under 40 own their own home?

ALASTAIR SCOTT to the Minister of Finance: What reports has he received on the New Zealand economy and the job market?

RON MARK to the Minister of Police: Does the closure of Police stations meet current Government policy?

KELVIN DAVIS to the Minister for Māori Development: Does he believe his Māori Housing Network has received enough funding to succeed?

Dr PARMJEET PARMAR to the Minister of Health: Can he confirm that the Government has set a goal to reduce Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy by 86 percent over the next 8 years?

EUGENIE SAGE to the Minister for Primary Industries: How close will Canterbury come to the limit for dairy intensification when Stage 2 of the Central Plains Water irrigation scheme is completed?

BARBARA KURIGER to the Minister for Social Development: What recent announcements has she made regarding supporting New Zealanders off benefits and into work?

Dr DAVID CLARK to the Minister of Health: What responsibility does he take as Minister of Health for his Director-General of Health, who “probably overreached a bit” as said by him in the House yesterday?

RICHARD PROSSER to the Minister for Primary Industries: Does he believe that New Zealand has robust biosecurity in light of Mycoplasma bovis and other recent incursions?

STUART SMITH to the Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage: What announcements has she made on support for cultural facilities through the Regional Culture and Heritage Fund?

MICHAEL WOOD to the Minister of Transport: Does he think after nine years of a National-led Government that traffic congestion in Auckland is getting better or worse when the TomTom index shows that Auckland now has more traffic congestion than Hong Kong, and that congestion has almost doubled since 2014?

JACINDA ARDERN to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by his statement on the housing crisis that “I wouldn’t call it a crisis. We have strong demand, we have an uplift in prices – these are good problems to have actually”?

MATT DOOCEY to the Minister of Finance: What reports has he received on confidence in New Zealand’s economy?

Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his statements on the Todd Barclay matter; if so, why?

GRANT ROBERTSON to the Minister of Finance: What was the annual average ordinary-time hourly earnings increase over the last year, and what percentage of workers received pay rises of less than 2 percent last year, according to Statistics New Zealand?

TODD MULLER to the Minister of Education: What recent announcements has she made on funding for children at risk of educational under-achievement due to disadvantage?

METIRIA TUREI to the Prime Minister: Ka tū ia i runga i te mana o āna kaupapa here katoa?

Translation: Does he stand by all his Government’s policies?

CHRIS HIPKINS to the Minister of Education: What criteria will be used to calculate the Risk Index that will “better target funding to schools with children and young people most at risk of not achieving due to disadvantage”?

Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS to the Minister of Immigration: Does he stand by all his statements; if so, how?

BRETT HUDSON to the Minister for Economic Development: What recent reports has he received on the contribution of the IT services sector to the economy?

Dr DAVID CLARK to the Minister of Health: Does he have confidence in the Director-General of Health?

CATHERINE DELAHUNTY to the Minister of Education: How will the Government collect Risk Index data for education funding and how will the ministry ensure that data is up to date, given families needing to move often because of the housing crisis?

SARAH DOWIE to the Minister for Small Business: What recent reports has she received regarding small business confidence in their future?

SARAH DOWIE to the Minister of Finance: What reports has he received on New Zealand’s trade exports?

EUGENIE SAGE to the Minister for Land Information: Has he asked Land Information New Zealand to withdraw the 997-hectare Riversdale Flats from the proposed sale of Mt White Station pastoral lease; if not, why not?

PHIL TWYFORD to the Minister for Social Housing: Will she confirm that as of 30 June the Government has only delivered 323 of the additional 1,400 emergency beds they promised at the start of November last year?

STUART SMITH to the Minister of Transport: What update can he provide on the reinstatement of State Highway 1 following the Kaikōura earthquakes?

STEFFAN BROWNING to the Minister for the Environment: Does he have confidence in the Environmental Protection Authority’s review of glyphosate?

Dr DAVID CLARK to the Minister of Health: Does he support the establishment of a cross-agency working group with Canterbury District Health Board on their finances, funding, and facilities?

DAVID SEYMOUR to the Minister of Health: Does he stand by all his answers to Oral Question No. 6 on 6 June regarding intraoperative radiotherapy for breast cancer?

BARBARA KURIGER to the Minister of Immigration: What recent announcements has he made in relation to immigration settings?

Hon NANAIA MAHUTA to the Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations: Does he believe that the signing of the Pare Hauraki Collective Settlement with the inclusion of redress disputed by Tauranga Moana iwi is a breach of Te Tiriti o Waitangi?

CHRIS BISHOP to the Associate Minister of Education: What recent announcements have the Government made on school property in the Wellington region?

PITA PARAONE to the Minister for Māori Development: Does he stand by all his statements; if so, why?

JENNY SALESA to the Minister of Education: Is she satisfied that the Government is doing all that it can to ensure an adequate supply of teachers, particularly in Auckland?

JACINDA ARDERN to the Minister for Social Development: Does she stand by her statement yesterday that the Ministry of Social Development Household Incomes report shows “both lower and higher income households are getting the benefit of a strong and growing economy”; if so, does that statement take into account rising housing costs?

CHRIS BISHOP to the Minister of Finance: What reports has he received on New Zealanders’ rising incomes?

METIRIA TUREI to the Minister for Social Development: How many people on benefits are currently homeless?

PHIL TWYFORD to the Minister for Social Housing: Does she agree with the Prime Minister’s statement about the Government spending $140,000 a day on putting homeless people into motels “I don’t know why people are complaining about this”?

STUART SMITH to the Minister for Climate Change Issues: What announcements has she made about changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme?

Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS to the Minister of Finance: Does he stand by all his statements; if so, how?

Dr SHANE RETI to the Minister for Social Development: What announcements has she made recently regarding support for young people who are not in education, employment, or training?

KELVIN DAVIS to the Minister for Māori Development: Does he stand by all his statements?

SIMON O'CONNOR to the Minister of Health: Can he confirm that the Government has invested $77.8 million into the roll-out of the national bowel screening programme to date, and that the first eligible residents are now being invited to take part?

JULIE ANNE GENTER to the Minister of Transport: Can he confirm that the business case for the Third Main Rail Line in Auckland says completing this project will take 400 heavy vehicles off the road each week, reduce travel times for five million rail passengers, and save 300 hours for freight services each year?

Dr DAVID CLARK to the Minister of Health: Does he stand by his statement in regards to elective surgeries, “we’ve been very transparent around the targets we are hitting those targets”?

Dr PARMJEET PARMAR to the Minister for Building and Construction: How many additional homes will be brought forward, and in what areas, as a consequence of the Government’s support for councils through the $1 billion Housing Infrastructure Fund?

Questions to Members

CARMEL SEPULONI to the Member in charge of the Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill (No 2): What indications of support has he received for the Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill (No 2)?

CARMEL SEPULONI to the Member in charge of the Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill (No 2): What are the main objectives of the Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill (No 2)?

Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his statements on the Todd Barclay matter; if so, how?

ANDREW LITTLE to the Prime Minister: Does he have confidence that his housing and social Ministers have homelessness under control, given the number of grants for emergency housing has almost hit 30,000 in nine months, when only 1,400 were expected for the whole year?

ANDREW BAYLY to the Minister of Finance: How is the Government helping councils increase housing supply?

MARAMA FOX to the Minister of Transport: Will he be committing any more resources to State Highway 35 over and above what was announced yesterday that would enable other road upgrades, and not just toilets and rest stops?

GRANT ROBERTSON to the Minister of Finance: Why is it a higher priority for him to cut taxes for members of Parliament than it is to invest more money than is in Budget 2017 into health, housing, or education, or to immediately restart contributions to the New Zealand Super Fund?

JONATHAN YOUNG to the Minister for Social Development: What recent reports has she received regarding household incomes?

SUE MORONEY to the Minister of Transport: Does he stand by his decision not to order an inquiry into the treatment of Ministry of Transport whistleblowers who were made redundant in a restructuring influenced by convicted fraudster Joanne Harrison, when I asked him to do so on March 16, 2017?

MAUREEN PUGH to the Minister of Science and Innovation: What recent announcements has he made about the Government’s Regional Research Institutes initiative?

METIRIA TUREI to the Minister for Social Development: Does she believe that the Ministry of Social Development has a responsibility to treat unemployed people, sole parents, and people with disabilities with respect and dignity, and ensure every person on a benefit has all the support they are entitled to?

CHRIS HIPKINS to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all of the statements that he has made, or have been made on his behalf, in this House regarding the Todd Barclay case?

Hon JO GOODHEW to the Minister of Civil Defence: What reports has he received on the impact of severe weather conditions across parts of Otago and Canterbury?

FLETCHER TABUTEAU to the Prime Minister: Does he have confidence in the Minister of Finance and the Minister for Economic Development; if so, how?

METIRIA TUREI to the Associate Minister of Health: Tokohia ngā tāngata i inu wai nā te e coli i paihana, i ngā rā atu i te tahi o Hōngongoi, tau rua mano tekau mā rima, ki te toru tekau o Pipiri, tau rua mano tekau mā ono?

Translation: How many people’s drinking water was contaminated with e coli between 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016?

MELISSA LEE to the Minister of Finance: What reports has he received on the Crown’s financial performance?

JACINDA ARDERN to the Prime Minister: Why has he as Prime Minister rejected calls from the Human Rights Commission, victims, and members of the public to conduct a full inquiry into historic abuse in State care?

BRETT HUDSON to the Minister for Social Housing: What recent announcements has she made regarding social housing in Wellington?

RON MARK to the Prime Minister: In so far as there is prime ministerial responsibility, with all the statements he has made on the Clutha-Southland electorate office issue, has he checked all the facts?

Dr DAVID CLARK to the Associate Minister of Health: Has she received a letter dated 5 May from five district health boards to the Ministry of Health entitled “Critical under-resourcing in Regional Intellectual Disability Secure Care”; if not, would she be surprised to find it contains a warning that the Ministry of Health’s “failure to ensure adequate capacity within the sector is such that there is now a serious and in some areas imminent risk of harm to those individuals unable to access the appropriate care, as well as to service providers and their staff”?

TODD MULLER to the Minister of Foreign Affairs: How is the Government supporting Pacific labour mobility?

JULIE ANNE GENTER to the Prime Minister: Why did he say that prisons are a “moral and fiscal failure”?

PHIL TWYFORD to the Minister for Building and Construction: Does he agree with the Auckland Council chief economist that an Auckland housing shortfall of almost 50,000 by 2023 is a conservative estimate?

ALASTAIR SCOTT to the Minister for Primary Industries: How is the Government supporting red-meat farmers to extract better value out of their produce?

GRANT ROBERTSON to the Associate Minister of Finance: Does she have confidence in the trustees of the Community Trust of Southland?

Dr PARMJEET PARMAR to the Associate Minister of Education: What recent announcements has he made following Budget 2017 in regards to increasing capacity at Auckland schools?

To be announced.

JOANNE HAYES to the Minister of Finance: What reports has he received on the level of confidence in the New Zealand economy?

ANDREW LITTLE to the Prime Minister: Has he asked his housing Ministers for a report of how many affordable houses have been built in the Auckland Special Housing Areas; if not, why not?

RON MARK to the Prime Minister: Before making a statement on the Clutha-Southland electorate office issue, does he check all the facts?

GRANT ROBERTSON to the Minister of Finance: Does he agree with the statement, “New Zealand’s productivity story is continuing to worsen, relative to our previous history and relative to Australia and our major trading partners”; if not, what specifically in that statement does he disagree with?

CHRIS BISHOP to the Minister for Social Housing: What recent announcements has she made regarding social housing in the Hutt Valley?

METIRIA TUREI to the Minister for Building and Construction: E hia ngā whare ka taea te hoko, kua waihangatia i ngā Takiwā Waihanga Whare Motuhake, o Tāmaki-makau-rau?

Translation: How many affordable homes have been built in Auckland’s Special Housing Areas?

KELVIN DAVIS to the Minister for Māori Development: Does he agree with Te Matapihi, the national Māori housing organisation, that nine years of inaction by his Government is the reason for a huge decline in Māori and Pasifika homeownership; if so, what does he think this says about his Māori housing initiatives?

Dr JIAN YANG to the Minister of Education: What recent announcements has she made on digital fluency in schools?

EUGENIE SAGE to the Minister for the Environment: By how much has annual funding for the Environmental Legal Assistance Fund been cut since 2013/14?

NUK KORAKO to the Minister supporting Greater Christchurch Regeneration: What announcements has she made regarding the Christchurch Cathedral?

RON MARK to the Minister of Health: Is he concerned about the Government’s ability to meet New Zealanders’ need for specialist appointments; if not, why not?

CHRIS HIPKINS to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all of the statements that he has made, or have been made, on his behalf in this House regarding the Todd Barclay case?

PHIL TWYFORD to the Minister for Building and Construction: Does he agree with Mainfreight founder and Chairman Bruce Plested that housing is a “social disgrace”, that the market cannot sort out this problem, and that real leadership and intestinal fortitude is needed now?

JONATHAN YOUNG to the Minister of Finance: What reports has he received on real after-tax wages rising in New Zealand?

CHRIS HIPKINS to the Minister of Education: Will she apologise on behalf of the Government for the flawed handling of the Canterbury school mergers and closures after the 2011 earthquakes; if not, why not?

ANDREW BAYLY to the Minister for Building and Construction: What progress has the Government made in improving the tenancy laws and guidance for dealing with the problem of methamphetamine testing and contamination?

CARMEL SEPULONI to the Associate Minister for Social Housing: What motels has the Government purchased in response to the increased emergency housing demand, and how much has this cost?

RON MARK to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all his statements on the Clutha-Southland electorate office issue even if facts known to him make doing so extraordinarily difficult?

MAUREEN PUGH to the Minister of Corrections: How is Budget 2017 investing in rehabilitation and reintegration outcomes for offenders?

Hon DAVID PARKER to the Minister of Local Government: Does she agree with the Prime Minister’s answer yesterday that drinking-water contamination in Havelock North was “about local government performance and overseeing ratepayer-funded assets whose purpose is to deliver clean and healthy water to its local people. The extensive inquiry into that incident was warranted by widespread illness in the area ... it is about local body performance in overseeing their clean water system”?

BRETT HUDSON to the Minister of Local Government: What recent announcements has she made regarding Wellington’s resilience to natural hazards?

JULIE ANNE GENTER to the Minister of Transport: Will the Government start building rail to the airport sooner if Auckland hosts the next America’s Cup regatta or will Aucklanders still have to wait 30 years?

STUART NASH to the Minister of Police: Does she have any concerns about any of the results of the New Zealand Police Workplace Survey 2017; if so, what in particular?

ALASTAIR SCOTT to the Associate Minister of Education: What recent announcements has he made to improve school infrastructure in the Wairarapa?