A select committee report was presented when Parliament resumed at 2pm.

This was on the Petition 2011/0093 of Gary Williams MNZM, and Petition 2011/0094 of Felicity Emmett and 278 others by the Local Government and Environment Committee.

Finance Minister Bill English began his Budget 2015 Statement.

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