Source: New Zealand Parliament
Order Paper for Thursday, 20 May 2021
2.00 pm
Introduction of bills
The Appropriation (2020/21 Supplementary Estimates) Bill was introduced.
Budget debate
The Appropriation (2021/22 Estimates) Bill was introduced and read a first time.
The Minister of Finance, Hon Grant Robertson, delivered the Budget statement.
The debate on the second reading of the Appropriation (2021/22 Estimates) Bill (the Budget debate) was interrupted with 6 hours and 30 minutes remaining.
Urgency
A motion to accord urgency to the following business was agreed to:
Introduction of bills
The following bills were introduced:
Government business
The Taxation (Budget 2021 and Remedial Matters) Bill was read a first time.
The Taxation (Budget 2021 and Remedial Matters) Bill was read a second time.
The committee stage of the Taxation (Budget 2021 and Remedial Matters) Bill was completed.
The debate on the third reading of the Taxation (Budget 2021 and Remedial Matters) Bill was interrupted with five speeches remaining.
Suspension
The sitting was suspended at 9.58 pm and resumed at 9.00 am on Friday, 21 May 2021.
Government business
The Taxation (Budget 2021 and Remedial Matters) Bill was read a third time.
The COVID-19 Public Health Response (Validation of Managed Isolated and Quarantine Charges) Amendment Bill was read a first time.
The COVID-19 Public Health Response (Validation of Managed Isolated and Quarantine Charges) Amendment Bill was read a second time.
The committee stage of the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Validation of Managed Isolated and Quarantine Charges) Amendment Bill was completed.
The COVID-19 Public Health Response (Validation of Managed Isolated and Quarantine Charges) Amendment Bill was read a third time.
The Education and Training (Grants—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill was read a first time and referred to the Education and Workforce Committee, to be reported by 1 July 2021. The committee has the authority to meet at any time while the House is sitting (except during oral questions), during any evening on a day on which there has been a sitting of the House, and on a Friday in a week in which there has been a sitting of the House and outside the Wellington area, despite Standing Orders 191, 193, and 194(1)(b) and (c).
Adjournment
At 12.36pm the House adjourned.
