Questions For Oral Answer - Thursday, 5 April 2007

Questions to Ministers

1. STEVE CHADWICK to the Minister for Disability Issues: What significant achievements have recently been made under the New Zealand Disability Strategy?

2. KATHERINE RICH to the Minister of Education: What, if anything, did he learn about education standards from his visit to Botswana “to progress international education opportunities”?

3. TE URUROA FLAVELL to the Minister in charge of Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations: He aha ana tohutohu, mena kei a ia etahi ki te Minita mo nga Take Taiao mo te papatanga o nga korero a te kaiwhiriwhiri mo Tainui, a Tukuroirangi Morgan, ara, tana i ki ra, “ko te rangatiratanga ki te wai te mea e aukati nei i tetahi whakataunga kereme mo te awa” i te mea, ko te kaupapa here a te Kawanatanga e mea ana, ko ia ke te rangatira o te wai?

Translation: What advice, if any, will he be giving to the Minister for the Environment about the impact of the comments from Tainui negotiator, Tukuroirangi Morgan, that “water ownership was the stumbling block to a settlement of the river claim”, given the Government’s policy on water ownership?

4. Hon BILL ENGLISH to the Minister of Justice: Has he completed the review of the electoral finance regime; if so, what specific changes to the Electoral Act 1993, if any, will he be proposing?

5. Hon MARIAN HOBBS to the Minister for the Environment: What reports has he received from the OECD on New Zealand’s environmental performance?

6. Hon TONY RYALL to the Minister of Health: When did the Ministry of Health or his office first become aware that Dr Bierre was taking leave of absence or standing down temporarily from the Auckland District Health Board, in light of his answer yesterday that “I have no recollection of being told that Dr Bierre had been stood down, but I may have been.”, and how?

7. Hon PETER DUNNE to the Minister of State Services: Does she have confidence that the Government has the necessary support to pass the Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill?

8. Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN to the Minister of Broadcasting: Does he stand by his statement to the House yesterday, “That is what one does by making a formal complaint: one complains right to the board of Radio New Zealand.”; if not, why not?

9. CHARLES CHAUVEL to the Minister of Commerce: What responses has she received to the release of the discussion document reviewing the price control provisions of the Commerce Act 1986?

10. Dr RICHARD WORTH to the Minister for Economic Development: Is he satisfied with the progress made during Export Year 2007 so far; if so, why?

11. SUE KEDGLEY to the Minister of Consumer Affairs: Does she agree with the editorial of last weekend’s Sunday Star-Times that the New Zealand Government has “chosen … the route of obfuscation and non-transparency” by not requiring labelling that allows New Zealand consumers to know where their food comes from?

12. PAULA BENNETT to the Minister of Education: How many three and four year olds will receive twenty hours free early childhood education on 1 July 2007?

ENDS

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