Petitions, Papers, Reports And Bills
Petitions And Reports
When Parliament resumed at 2pm petitions were presented from:
Darryl Monteith and 3220 others asking central and local government to produce a plan for the Gisborne to Napier railway to be maintained and developed and the threat to close the line in 2012 withdrawn an reviewed again in 2020; and
Vivienne Shepherd requesting that the House work with the councils of Northland to keep the Northland to Auckland rail line open and to enhance its commercial viability by building a rail line to the deep water port at Marsden B.
Annual Reports were tabled from the:
Education Review Office;
Maori
Trustee;
Defence Ministry;
Environment Court
Registrar;
Queen Elizabeth II National
Trust;
Parliamentary
Service;
Ombudsman;
Parliamentary Service
Commission;
Interparliamentary Delegation Report; and
A report on the compulsory school sector
Select committee reports were presented on the:
Complaint regarding the Resource Management (Forms, Fees, and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 2009 (SR 2009/73) (I.16M) by the Regulations Review Committee
Orders in Council made under the Canterbury Earthquake Response and Recovery Act 2010 and the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Act 2011 (I.16N) by the Regulations Review Committee;
Notice of motion regarding the Misuse of Drugs (Classification of Tapentadol) Order 2011 by the Health Committee;
Activities of the Regulations Review
Committee in 2011 (I.16O) by the Regulations Review
Committee
The Members of Parliament (Remuneration and Services) Bill and Child Support Amendment Bill were introduced.
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