Questions For Oral Answer - Wednesday, 4 April 2007

Questions to Ministers

1. Hon TONY RYALL to the Minister of Health: When will he express confidence or not in the chairs of the Auckland district health boards, Wayne Brown, Pat Snedden and Kay McKelvie?

2. JEANETTE FITZSIMONS to the Minister of Finance: Does he believe that a fast, clean, reliable electric rail system in Auckland would be a step towards achieving the Prime Minister’s two goals of carbon neutrality and making Auckland a world class city?

3. Hon BILL ENGLISH to the Minister of Finance: Does he agree with the Governor of the Reserve Bank that “the Government is a net contributor to resource pressures at the minute through the fiscal story.”; if not, why not?

4. MOANA MACKEY to the Minister of Education: What is the Government doing to assist schools with the costs of software for information and communication technology?

5. SIMON POWER to the Minister of Justice: Why has the proportion of New Zealanders who have been the victims of crime increased to 39 percent in 2005, compared to 29.5 percent in 2000 and 31 percent in 1995?

6. DARREN HUGHES to the Minister for Economic Development: What is being done to ensure that regional New Zealand benefits from economic transformation?

7. KATHERINE RICH to the Minister of Education: What were the total production and broadcasting costs of the 20 free hours television commercial which has been screening to promote the Government’s 20 free hours policy?

8. Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS to the Minister of Health: Why, with respect to Herceptin, is the New Zealand taxpayer being asked to fund an international multi-centre trial when it is possible that not one New Zealand woman may take part, and on what basis did PHARMAC administration get its recruitment rates of 600 patients?

9. GERRY BROWNLEE to the Minister of Broadcasting: What is the process by which he raises issues of concern with Radio New Zealand, and what issues has he raised recently?

10. DARIEN FENTON to the Minister of Internal Affairs: What progress is he making to reduce the occurrence of identity fraud in New Zealand?

11. Hon Dr NICK SMITH to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her statement on 28 March, in regards to the devolution of carbon credits to foresters, that “It would be a fairly silly forester who took that as a signal to plant trees, when it was a scenario in a discussion document that followed an ‘in principle’ decision, which had yet to be confirmed, and of course was not, in the event, confirmed.”?

12. PHIL HEATLEY to the Minister of Fisheries: Does he have confidence in his Ministry; if so, why?

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