Source: New Zealand Parliament – Hansard
BUSINESS STATEMENT
Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Leader of the House): Thank you, Mr Speaker. Today, the House will adjourn until Tuesday, 26 July. In that week, the legislation that the House will consider will include the further stages of the Data and Statistics Bill and the Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 2); and the first readings of the Foreign Affairs (Consular Loans) Amendment Bill, the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill, and the United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement Legislation Bill. On Thursday, 28 July, there will be a special debate on a petition about digital exclusion, and there will be an extended sitting on the morning of Thursday, 28 July.
Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE (National): Thank you, Mr Speaker. I thank the Leader of the House for his update and trust all members across the House will have a productive but perhaps less frenetic winter recess. The third week of that recess will mark the sixth anniversary of the return to this House of the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary Bill, and I wonder if he could inform the House of the likelihood that that bill will progress before its seventh birthday?
Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Leader of the House): The member can live in hope. The Government, of course, has a very busy legislative programme, as he will see if he takes a glance at the Order Paper at the moment. There is an awful lot of legislation that will be making its way through the House between now and at the end of the year.
