Parliament Resumes

When Parliament resumed at 2pm the petition of Lois Griffiths and 382 others was presented requesting that the New Zealand Parliament ask the Guardians of the NZ Superfund to disinvest the Fund from Elbit Systems, Caterpillar, G4S and three major Israeli banks: Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi and Israel Discount Bank.

As was the petition of Murray Storey and 2335 others calling on New Zealand’s representative to the United Nations to abstain from voting on the formation of an independent Palestine State and the House of Representatives urge the Government to follow this wish.

The annual report of the Lotteries Commission was presented.

Select committee reports were presented on the:

Report from the Controller and Auditor-General on Public entities' progress in implementing the Auditor-General's recommendation by the Finance and Expenditure Committee

Proposed changes to the format of Estimates and other information presented with Appropriation bills by the Finance and Expenditure Committee

Report from the Controller and Auditor-General on Central government: Cost-effectiveness and improving annual reports by the Finance and Expenditure Committee

Report from the Controller and Auditor-General on Inland Revenue: Making it easy to comply by the Finance and Expenditure Committee

Report from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment on How clean is New Zealand: Measuring and reporting on the health of our environment by the Local Government and Environment Committee

Report from the Controller and Auditor-General on Progress in delivering publicly funded scheduled services to patients by the Health Committee

Petition 2008/95 of Allan Hunter by the Commerce Committee

MPs began Question Time.

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