Environmental Reporting Bill To Progress

The Environmental Reporting Bill will be amongst the legislation the Government gives priority to next week.

Deputy Leader of the House Simon Bridges said in the Business Statement, the Government would seek to progress a number of bills when the House next sat on May 5.

This would include the New Zealand Business Number Bill, New Zealand Superannuation and Retirement Income Amendment Bill and the Environmental Reporting Bill.

Wednesday would be a Members’ Day.

The Auditor General’s report "Inland Revenue Department: Governance of the Business Transformation programme" and the Parliamentary Commissioner’s Update report - "Investigating the future of conservation: The case of stewardship land update investigating stewardship" were presented.

Select committee reports were presented on the:

Briefing on the implementation of recommendations in the report on Petition 2011/49 of Aaron Cross on behalf of the Greyhound Protection League of New Zealand by the Government Administration Committee

Report from the Controller and Auditor-General, Discussion Paper: Insuring Public Assets, June 2013 by the Finance and Expenditure Committee

Report from the Controller and Auditor-General, Education for Māori: Relationships between schools and whānau by the Education and Science Committee

Reserve Bank of New Zealand's Monetary Policy Statement, March 2015 by the Finance and Expenditure Committee

Proposed national civil defence emergency management plan by the Government Administration Committee

MPs then began Question Time.

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