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Oral Questions – 1 September 2022

Originally published: 1 September 2022

Questions to Ministers

Dr ELIZABETH KEREKERE to the Minister for Diversity, Inclusion and Ethnic Communities: What progress, if any, has this Government made towards addressing the issues identified by rainbow communities in the report on the first Counting Ourselves survey in 2019, in light of the second survey being launched today?

NICOLA WILLIS to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all of her Government’s statements and actions?

HELEN WHITE to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has he seen on the New Zealand economy?

BROOKE VAN VELDEN to the Minister of Housing: How many KiwiBuild houses were built in July 2022, if any, and was this more or fewer than the number of KiwiBuild houses built in June 2022?

ARENA WILLIAMS to the Minister of Energy and Resources: What action is the Government taking to support access to cheaper, cleaner energy for people in public and Māori housing?

NICOLA WILLIS to the Minister of Finance: Was the Minister of Revenue correct when he said the KiwiSaver tax back-down that it was the decision of “[him]self and the Minister of Finance, as was the decision to put them in in the first place”, and what other potential tax changes, if any, are officials currently working on?

RACHEL BROOKING to the Minister of Conservation: What is the significance of Conservation Week 2022, and what does it aim to achieve?

MARK CAMERON to the Minister for the Environment: Is he concerned that the estimated 10,000 resource consents necessary for farmers to comply with intensive winter grazing standards will not be issued by the 1 November deadline, and how many farms are currently compliant with winter grazing standards across the country?

Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the Minister of Justice: Does she stand by all her statements and actions on youth justice?

MARJA LUBECK to the Associate Minister of Education (School Operations): How is the Government supporting young Kiwis to lift their literacy and reading skills?

SIMON WATTS to the Minister of Local Government: Does she agree with Gore District Council Mayor Tracy Hicks, who said, “The Government appears impermeable to seriously entertaining an alternative model for the Three Waters reform”, and does she believe she has adequately addressed the concerns of local government during Three Waters reform?

VANUSHI WALTERS to the Minister for Courts: What is the Government doing to ease the pressure on the coronial system?

Answers to these questions are delivered from 2pm (New Zealand time) on the day of tabling. The answers can be accessed in text form, once Hansard is finalised, by clicking here.

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