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Vote: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeVote: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11452. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]A party vote was called for on the question That clause 2 be agreed to.Ayes 109New Zealand National 59; New Zealand Labour 32; Green Party 14; Māori Party 2; ACT New Zealand 1; United Future 1.Noes 12New Zealand First 12.Clause 2 agreed to.
Vote: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeVote: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11452. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]A party vote was called for on the question That clause 1 be agreed to.Ayes 109New Zealand National 59; New Zealand Labour 32; Green Party 14; Māori Party 2; ACT New Zealand 1; United Future 1.Noes 12New Zealand First 12.Clause 1 agreed to.
Vote: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeVote: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11452. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]A party vote was called for on the question That Part 2 be agreed to.Ayes 109New Zealand National 59; New Zealand Labour 32; Green Party 14; Māori Party 2; ACT New Zealand 1; United Future 1.Noes 12New Zealand First 12.Part 2 agreed to.
Vote: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeVote: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11452. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]A party vote was called for on the question That Part 1 be agreed to.Ayes 109New Zealand National 59; New Zealand Labour 32; Green Party 14; Māori Party 2; ACT New Zealand 1; United Future 1.Noes 12New Zealand First 12.Part 1 agreed to.
Vote: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeVote: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11444. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]A party vote was called for on the question That the Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill be now read a second time.Ayes 109New Zealand National 59; New Zealand Labour 32; Green Party 14; Māori Party 2; ACT New Zealand 1; United Future 1.Noes 12New Zealand First 12.Bill read a second time.
Vote: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeVote: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11434. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]A party vote was called for on the question That the Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill be now read a first time.Ayes 109New Zealand National 59; New Zealand Labour 32; Green Party 14; Māori Party 2; ACT New Zealand 1; United Future 1.Noes 12New Zealand First 12.Bill read a first time.
Seymour David: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeSeymour David: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11457. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): I rise on behalf of the ACT Party in favour and support of this bill even though I regard it as a regrettable piece of public policy because—as I have said in earlier stages—of the wider context of a need to support this Budget and to keep these people over here and keep those people over there except for Phil Goff who will soon be joining us in Auckland on a more permanent basis.I just have a question for the Minister and for the proponents of this bill and it is this: what do they say to the 15 percent of New Zealanders and the 35.5 percent of Māori who now pay $2800 in tobacco excise tax every single year and under this bill will soon pay $3800 of excise tax every year because they smoke? I presume what the Minister and his supporters would say is: “Well they should quit.” There is one small problem with that and it is that they have not. The regulatory impact statement for this bill vastly overestimates how many people will quit for the amount of tax taken from the poorest households in this country.I saw one such example of this not so long ago in a Countdown supermarket in Auckland. I saw a mother with a very young girl. The mother was buying a tin of milk and a packet of Winfield 25s—three-quarters of the cost of which was tax. I cannot presume to know all of their circumstances but by the look of it from the way they were dressed and from the expression on their faces the little girl was fixated on those cigarettes as if to say: “That could have been dinner.” A 7-year-old girl could work out what this policy is doing. It is having minimal effect on smoking cessation but it is literally taking food out of the mouths of some the poorest children in this country.I would say to my colleague from the Māori Party that Dame Tariana Turia is a woman deserving of the greatest of respect and the intentions are extremely noble but policies must not be measured by intentions. They must be measured by outcomes. This policy will take the tobacco tax on the average smoker from 2800 bucks per year up to 3800 bucks. That is not an enlightened policy. It is a highly regressive tax and the costs imposed in terms of poverty and deprivation on the people most in need far outweigh any possible benefits that we have been able to observe from the first 5 years of this policy.With that I support this bill because it is part of a broader Budget that I think is good. But make no mistake it is a highly regrettable policy that will do far more harm than it does good. We have to support it in spite of the fact that it is not good policy whatsoever.
Tisch Lindsay: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTisch Lindsay: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11457. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I call David Seymour—5 minutes.
Tisch Lindsay: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTisch Lindsay: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11456. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): The next call is a split call—Marama Fox 5 minutes.
Hague Kevin: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHague Kevin: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11455. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]KEVIN HAGUE (Green): It was indeed good to hear Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga in his contribution to the Committee stage indicate that the Government was committed to passing the plain packaging legislation in the second half of this year. That will be very welcome because although tax increases on tobacco products are the most effective measure of reducing death and illness from the most preventable cause of death and illness they are not enough alone; they need to be part of a comprehensive suite of measures. One of those is plain packaging and the Green Party certainly wishes that the Government was also open to the issue of smoking in cars and smoking in parks and open to the kinds of restrictions on retail supply such as a register of retailers as has been recommended. We look forward to further discussions with the Government on that.I note that the Government intends to review its progress against the Smokefree Aotearoa goal in 2018. At that point it may well be that New Zealand continues not to be on track for achieving Smokefree Aotearoa by 2025 as we are not now. We are not currently on track. We are for middle-class Pākehā New Zealanders but not for Māori not for Pasifika and not for low-income Pākehā people. If we continue not to be on trackin 2018 then I call on the Government to indicate that it is open to reviewing these taxation measures because at that point we will have demonstrated that they are inadequate. With that I close this contribution and indicate that the Green Party will continue to support this measure.
Nash Stuart: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeNash Stuart: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11451. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]STUART NASH (Labour—Napier): It would have been good if Clayton Mitchell had actually come to the Finance and Expenditure Committee when we were debating this then he may have understood that the evidence says that this is actually a good thing in terms of stopping people smoking. In a way we did hear submissions on this in the Budget Policy Statement. We had about 20 submissions submitted. They were of a very high quality and a lot of them were academic submissions so they were very worthwhile.I just have a very quick question for Minister Lotu-Iiga and that is this: if we are taking an evidence-based approach to this did he actually look at any evidence at all that suggested the tax increase should not be 10 percent but should be 20 percent as recommended by a number of the researchers? In fact there are a whole lot of credible national and international studies that said 10 percent is just not enough; it has got to be 20 percent. A number of other studies actually said you should do a one-off hit of about 40 percent. These are not the people who are subjective; this is very objective research. So my question is whether the Minister looked at bringing in an excise duty that was higher than the 10 percent in this bill. Thank you very much.
Borrows Chester: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBorrows Chester: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11445. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The CHAIRPERSON (Hon Chester Borrows): Leave is put for that purpose. Is there any objection? There appears to be none.
Ross Jami-Lee: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRoss Jami-Lee: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11445. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JAMI-LEE ROSS (Junior Whip—National): I seek leave for all questions in this debate to be taken as one debate and voted on separately.
Brownlee Gerry: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBrownlee Gerry: Customs and Excise (Tobacco Products—Budget Measures) Amendment Bill — First Reading Second Reading In Committee Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11421. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon GERRY BROWNLEE (Minister supporting Greater Christchurch Regeneration): The previous speaker David Clark has either no capacity himself or no research support with a capacity to read a Budget and understand what is in it. Those claims about health cuts are utter rubbish and completely wrong. This year the Budget provided an extra $1.6 billion—$1600 million extra—for district health boards.To suggest that this proposal is all about taking extra tax for all the things that the Labour Party does not like is completely disingenuous. The reality is that the member himself agreed that price is one of the best ways to deter people from smoking cigarettes. That is why this Government unlike any other before has been prepared to go out and put up the price of tobacco repeatedly year after year after year. The Māori Party is to be commended for the way in which it has held the Government to that over that period of time. It gets our full support in doing that.This proposal will see the price of cigarettes rise not to $30 as TV ONE reported last night but to almost $37 over the next couple of years. That will be a serious serious deterrent. To suggest that somehow the Labour Party is going to vote for this bill only if it gets an iron-clad guarantee that all the tax that comes off that will be used on these various programmes put together by their friends the lefty experts who think they are so important in all this stuff is utter rubbish. This Budget has over 4 years more than $2 billion additional funding going to health. Public health is a big winner in that. I would also point out that those experts will have no job when we reach the target of total cessation or near enough by 2025. So one thing I would say to the Labour Party is: be very careful about the vested interests you listen to.My final comment is that that particular group of people has one lobby group Action on Smoking and Health whose staff I have found in my time in Parliament to be the most rude people who have ever come into my office—and they never will again. But it has not changed my view that we should end smoking as a habit in this country. I support this bill.
Doocey Matt: Climate Change Response (Removal of Transitional Measure) Amendment Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeDoocey Matt: Climate Change Response (Removal of Transitional Measure) Amendment Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11417. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]MATT DOOCEY (National—Waimakariri): Wow! How do I follow that? What absolute negativity. What absolute pessimism. It is very clear why that party now has fewer members than the Green Party. What negativity.On this side of the House we are a lot more positive. This country has done a lot of great work around the emissions trading scheme. Since 1990 we have decoupled emissions from economic growth by 34 percent. We are phasing back now over the next 3 years. I commend this bill to the House.Bill read a third time.
Korako Nuk: Climate Change Response (Removal of Transitional Measure) Amendment Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKorako Nuk: Climate Change Response (Removal of Transitional Measure) Amendment Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11415. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]NUK KORAKO (National): Mōrena e Te Mana Whakawā. This bill reflects that the Government is truly committed to a low-carbon economy and I have no hesitation in commending this bill to the House.
Tisch Lindsay: Climate Change Response (Removal of Transitional Measure) Amendment Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTisch Lindsay: Climate Change Response (Removal of Transitional Measure) Amendment Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11414. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I call David Seymour—5 minutes.
Tisch Lindsay: Climate Change Response (Removal of Transitional Measure) Amendment Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTisch Lindsay: Climate Change Response (Removal of Transitional Measure) Amendment Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11413. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I call Dr—[Interruption] Order! I am calling Dr Kennedy Graham—5 minutes.
Foster-Bell Paul: Climate Change Response (Removal of Transitional Measure) Amendment Bill — Third ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeFoster-Bell Paul: Climate Change Response (Removal of Transitional Measure) Amendment Bill — Third Reading[Sitting date: 26 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11413. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]PAUL FOSTER-BELL (National): This is yet another example of very pragmatic sensible and balanced legislation from a Government that is committed to ensuring that New Zealand businesses and households have an opportunity to adapt to the measures put in place to respond to the issue of climate change and climate disruption. Paula Bennett the Minister sponsoring this legislation should be commended for it. I commend it to the House.
Vote: Official Information (Parliamentary Under-Secretaries) Amendment Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeVote: Official Information (Parliamentary Under-Secretaries) Amendment Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11313. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]A party vote was called for on the question That the Official Information (Parliamentary Under-Secretaries) Amendment Bill be now read a second time.Ayes 109New Zealand National 59; New Zealand Labour 32; Green Party 14; Māori Party 2; ACT New Zealand 1; United Future 1.Noes 12New Zealand First 12.Bill read a second time.
Vote: Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid Leave and Work Contact Hours) Amendment Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeVote: Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid Leave and Work Contact Hours) Amendment Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11290. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]A party vote was called for on the question That the Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid Leave and Work Contact Hours) Amendment Bill be now read a second time.Ayes 61New Zealand Labour 32; Green Party 14; New Zealand First 12; Māori Party 2; United Future 1.Noes 60New Zealand National 59; ACT New Zealand 1.Bill read a second time.Name changed to Parental Leave and Employment Protection (6 Months’ Paid Leave) Amendment Bill.
Seymour David: Overseas Investment (Protection of New Zealand Homebuyers) Amendment Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeSeymour David: Overseas Investment (Protection of New Zealand Homebuyers) Amendment Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11323. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]DAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT): I rise on behalf of the ACT Party in opposition to the Overseas Investment (Protection of New Zealand Homebuyers) Amendment Bill. I would like some time to set out the reasons for that but the time is very short so I would like to focus on one particular provision in the bill that I think exposes I guess the misadventure in this whole enterprise of Mr Twyford’s. It is that under this bill overseas investors can purchase housing despite not being tax residents if as the bill says they are adding to the level of housing stock. The reason that this is such a misadventure is that the price level of housing in New Zealand is ultimately set by the price of producing new homes in each particular market. The reason why housing is so expensive in New Zealand is that people who weigh up buying a new home and who weigh up buying an existing home as an alternative are driven by what is ultimately the price of expanding the overall supply and building new homes. So if it costs $800000 or $900000 for a serviced section in Auckland and if it costs another $200000 to $500000 to build the types of houses that people are building well that is why you have houses going for over $1 million.Of course this bill says that so long as a purchaser is bidding in the market of new homes then the bill does not apply to them. They are allowed to purchase those homes despite being non-resident buyers. Well if we are going to concentrate this rush and inflow of foreign speculative capital into the New Zealand housing market on the precise area of the market—that is new homes—that actually sets the price for the market right across the city be it Auckland or any other city then we are not going to have any net effect on price levels. All we are going to do is put more and more pressure on the new-build sector and therefore raise the price of housing across the city. That is due to a fundamental misdiagnosis of what is really happening in the housing market. We have heard earlier that the real proportion of foreign investors buying homes in New Zealand could be as low as 3 percent but let us say that that is a low-ball estimate and it is actually somewhat higher—maybe it is three times that at 9 percent or maybe it is a bit higher; maybe it is 10 or 12 percent. But the fact of the matter is that the real problem in the housing market and particularly in Auckland is that it is so difficult to build new homes.Debate interrupted.
Mallard Trevor: Overseas Investment (Protection of New Zealand Homebuyers) Amendment Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMallard Trevor: Overseas Investment (Protection of New Zealand Homebuyers) Amendment Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11323. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Order! The member’s time has expired.
Borrows Chester: Official Information (Parliamentary Under-Secretaries) Amendment Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBorrows Chester: Official Information (Parliamentary Under-Secretaries) Amendment Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11305. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: A 5-minute call on behalf of the Māori Party—Marama Fox.
Borrows Chester: Official Information (Parliamentary Under-Secretaries) Amendment Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBorrows Chester: Official Information (Parliamentary Under-Secretaries) Amendment Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11304. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: A 5-minute call on behalf of the Labour Party—Chris Hipkins.
Borrows Chester: Official Information (Parliamentary Under-Secretaries) Amendment Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeBorrows Chester: Official Information (Parliamentary Under-Secretaries) Amendment Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11302. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: I am sure the member could not have been more eloquent if he had read his speech.
Mallard Trevor: Sittings of the HouseText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMallard Trevor: Sittings of the House[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11290. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Just following the last bill the member is not being ironic is she?Carmel Sepuloni: No.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): No. All right. Is there any objection? There appears to be none.Sitting suspended from 5.55 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
Sepuloni Carmel: Sittings of the HouseText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeSepuloni Carmel: Sittings of the House[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11290. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]CARMEL SEPULONI (Junior Whip—Labour): I seek leave for the House to rise early for the dinner break so that the first speech of the next bill can go uninterrupted.
Mallard Trevor: Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid Leave and Work Contact Hours) Amendment Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMallard Trevor: Parental Leave and Employment Protection (Six Months’ Paid Leave and Work Contact Hours) Amendment Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11286. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Jacinda Ardern—a split call.
Carter David: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeCarter David: General Debate[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11261. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Mr SPEAKER: The member’s time has expired.
Lee Melissa: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeLee Melissa: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11248. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]10.MELISSA LEE (National) to the Minister for ACC: What initiatives are being delivered to reduce the number of people injured in New Zealand?Hon NIKKI KAYE (Minister for ACC): ACC has improved its commitment to injury prevention by increasing its budget from $30 million to $50 million per year. In the last 12 months alone we have announced new partnerships and investments across priority injury areas including reducing falls sporting injuries and treatment injuries. Initiatives include a $15 million to $20 million partnership with the health sector to reduce medical injuries including a world leading surgical training programme a $1.1 million partnership with St John Ambulance to prevent injuries to children and a $2.3 million investment in Plunket.Melissa Lee: What work is under way to specifically reduce injuries to children?Hon NIKKI KAYE: Last week I was pleased to announce a new partnership between ACC and Plunket to reduce the number of injuries to children under 5 years old. ACC is investing $2.3 million to support Plunket to further develop its injury prevention capability and better deliver educational initiatives to support parents. Each year more than 110000 children aged under 5 are injured at home and in the wider community. This includes 60000 children injured due to falls and 4000 injured as a result of burns. This funding is all about ensuring fewer Kiwi children are injured and supporting more parents to keep their children safe at home and in the community.Melissa Lee: How many families and children will be reached by this funding and what other work is expected in this area? [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order!Hon NIKKI KAYE: This funding will help Plunket nurses reach more than 270000 families with children under 5 years old. These Plunket nurses will be focused on ensuring new parents are better prepared and more aware to prevent injuries. Who better to do this than Plunket nurses who have supported New Zealand families for generations. This investment of tens of millions of dollars more in injury prevention combined with billions of levy cuts has seen an increase in public confidence for ACC. In the last fortnight I announced that ACC’s public confidence is the highest ever recorded in New Zealand’s history.
O'Connor Simon: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeO'Connor Simon: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11245. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]7.SIMON O’CONNOR (National—Tāmaki) to the Minister of Health: What progress has been made towards achieving the Government’s national health targets?Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN (Minister of Health): This week the Ministry of Health published the health targets results for quarter three 2015-16. They showed good progress overall with the elective surgery target again being achieved with 146000 elective surgical discharges provided for the year to date. That is nearly 8000 more than were planned. We have delivered around 50000 more surgeries over the last 7 years. The target for heart and diabetes checks was met for the third consecutive quarter. Around 1.2 million people have had their cardiovascular disease risk assessed in the past 5 years. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! To the Hon Annette King you have interjected on every question. We are now on question No. 7. If you interject again I will deal with it severely.Simon O’Connor: What changes will be made to the national health targets?Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN: From 1 July a new childhood obesity health target will replace the heart and diabetes checks target. By December 2017 we want to see 95 percent of children who are identified as obese in the before-school check referred to an appropriate health professional for clinical assessment and intervention. Heart and diabetes checks will still remain an accountability measure for district health boards to ensure that the gains made are not lost.Simon O’Connor: What reports has he seen on the numbers of doctors and nurses in our hospitals who are helping meet these targets?Hon Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN: Our dedicated health workforce has been crucial in meeting these health targets and we now have a record number of doctors and nurses working in district health boards across New Zealand. At the end of March this year there were over 7880 doctors and 22500 nurses employed by district health boards. That is almost 2000 more doctors and nearly 4200 more nurses compared with 2008.
Parmar Parmjeet: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeParmar Parmjeet: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11243. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]5.Dr PARMJEET PARMAR (National) to the Minister of Science and Innovation: What new investment is the Government making in health research?Hon STEVEN JOYCE (Minister of Science and Innovation): Last week health Minister Jonathan Coleman and I announced that as part of Budget 2016 the Government will increase funding for health research by $97 million over the next 4 years. The annual amount available for health research through the Health Research Council (HRC) will increase by 56 percent up from $77 million this year to $120 million in 2019-20 which will be the biggest increase. The HRC supports research that leads to improved health outcomes and more effective delivery of health care for New Zealanders. That research brings economic gains for New Zealand.Dr Parmjeet Parmar: Why is the Government investing more in health research?Hon STEVEN JOYCE: The Government is investing more in health research because it brings a range of benefits firstly to our health system and to New Zealanders and their health but also to our wider economy. Health research creates economic benefits by supporting the cost-effective delivery of services. It generates high-value knowledge-intensive companies like Pacific Edge Biotechnology which is now listed on the NZX and has had support for its research into genetics and epigenetics of cancer; Avalia Immunotherapies which is a joint venture between the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research and Victoria University which is commercialising groundbreaking vaccines for some cancers; and PREDICT software which is an electronic tool for the prediction of cardiovascular risk.Dr Parmjeet Parmar: What sort of research will be supported by this increase in funding?Hon STEVEN JOYCE: The Government’s National Statement of Science Investment identifies health research as a priority for investment and that is why it has committed this very significant increase as part of Budget 2016—it is the largest ever funding increase for health research in this country’s history. It will fund more research like the famous Liggins-Howie discovery for preventing lung disease in newborns which is estimated to have directly saved the lives of about 10000 New Zealand infants and the national New Zealand Cot Death Study which identified changes that parents could make to reduce the risk to their baby and is credited with saving more than 3000 New Zealand children’s lives over 20 years.
Seymour David: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeSeymour David: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11242. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]4.DAVID SEYMOUR (Leader—ACT) to the Minister of Finance: Does he agree with all of this Government’s spending choices?Hon BILL ENGLISH (Minister of Finance): Yes where the Government is making choices about new money I do. But it is important to recognise that $77 billion of current Government spending represents the accumulation of decisions over many years. The Government is committed to high-quality decisions where it is allocating new spending and also trawling through the baseline spending to improve the effectiveness of much of that spending that has been found to be less than effective.David Seymour: Does he then agree with the recent decision to give $600000 to Jane Kelsey so that she can study “transcending embedded neoliberalism in international economic regulation”?Hon BILL ENGLISH: The member may be relieved to know that Ms Kelsey’s academic peers made that decision not the Government.David Seymour: Which of the following does he believe was the best use of taxpayer money: Find Me A Māori Bride 2 at $590000 X Factor 2 at $800000 or Grand Designs 2 at $1.2 million?Hon BILL ENGLISH: I disagree with my colleagues because The X Factor is a wonderful showcase of the talents of young New Zealanders. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! The level of interjection is simply too high. If you want me to mention a couple of names I can and they will then be on a final warning.David Seymour: Does he believe it was a good use of $1.2 million of taxpayers’ money to fund The Ultimate Waterman stand-up paddleboarding event and does he know whether Steven Joyce tried out this paddleboard; if not can he speculate as to why?Mr SPEAKER: Three supplementary questions of which one can be addressed.Hon BILL ENGLISH: There is nothing I have seen Minister Joyce have a go at where he does not prove himself to be a master of the required skills.David Seymour: In light of these patchy answers to my previous supplementary questions does the Minister truly believe that there is not a cent to afford tax cuts for hard-working Kiwi families this Budget?Hon BILL ENGLISH: I share with the member his respect and regard for the fact that the only reason that the Government has billions to spend is that people who got up early this morning made the lunches for the kids got them on the bus and then went to work—probably their mother—pay their tax at the end of the fortnight. That is how we end up with billions. The difference between us and the other side of the House is that the other side of the House does not respect that whatsoever.
Hayes Joanne: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHayes Joanne: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11240. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]2.JOANNE HAYES (National) to the Minister of Finance: What steps is the Government taking in Budget 2016 to deliver better public services—particularly for the most vulnerable New Zealanders? [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! There is simply too much interjection coming from one quarter to my left. I will deal with it if I have to.Hon BILL ENGLISH (Minister of Finance): The member will just have to wait till tomorrow for details but the Government is in Budget 2016 investing in a growing economy that delivers more jobs and higher wages and one that delivers sufficient revenue to give us choices. Where we do spend money we will be focused on getting better value for money where we can make a real difference to the most vulnerable New Zealanders rather than just increasing the amount of funding.Joanne Hayes: How will Budget 2016 continue to build the Government’s investments in health education and other core public services?Hon BILL ENGLISH: It will build on a lot of good work in health education and other core public services by focusing on getting more outcomes not just spending more money. As we saw a decade ago it is possible to spend more in health and deliver fewer health services. It is possible to increase Government spending by 50 percent in 5 years only to see social statistics go backwards. We saw that happen under the previous Labour Government; it is not happening under this Government.Joanne Hayes: What initiatives has the Government announced particularly relating to supporting more vulnerable families into accommodation?Hon BILL ENGLISH: It is important to understand that any initiatives come on top of the $2 billion that was spent this financial year—over $2 billion—to support 300000 people on the accommodation supplement and 60000 households on income-related rent. That is in addition to the Government’s $20 billion worth of houses. It owns one in every 16 houses in New Zealand. There have already been announcements of a $41 million commitment to support around 3000 emergency housing places and there is the Government’s HomeStart programme which has supported 12000 people into first homes.Joanne Hayes: What other steps is the Government taking to get more houses where they are most needed?Hon BILL ENGLISH: The Government is taking a number of steps which I will outline but no land becomes available nor infrastructure relevant to that land nor houses built without the Auckland Council agreeing to every single step. There is something of a misunderstanding that the Government can somehow bypass the council and local communities; it cannot. It has to follow the process. The Government is in the process of building 7500 houses in Tāmaki; 3500 houses in Hobsonville; a thousand houses in other Auckland locations; and 300 houses in Weymouth in addition to almost a thousand houses that will be delivered in Christchurch under the Christchurch Housing Accord.
Carter David: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeCarter David: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11240. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order!
Hayes Joanne: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHayes Joanne: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11240. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JOANNE HAYES (National): My question is to the Minister of Finance—[Interruption]
Peters Winston: Oral Questions — Questions to MinistersText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11239. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First):This question is to the Prime Minister and asks: does he stand by all his statements—sorry;does he still stand by—[Interruption] Well it is obvious—“still” being the operative word.Mr SPEAKER: Order!
Sittings of the HouseText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeSittings of the House[Sitting date: 25 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11290. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Sittings of the HouseCARMEL SEPULONI (Junior Whip—Labour): I seek leave for the House to rise early for the dinner break so that the first speech of the next bill can go uninterrupted.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Just following the last bill the member is not being ironic is she?Carmel Sepuloni: No.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): No. All right. Is there any objection? There appears to be none.Sitting suspended from 5.55 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
Hayes Joanne: Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngā Pōtiki Claims Settlement Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHayes Joanne: Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngā Pōtiki Claims Settlement Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 24 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11219. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JOANNE HAYES (National):Kia ora e Te Mana Whakawā. Ngā uri o Ngāi Te Rangi me Ngā Pōtiki nau mai haere mai; Mita Ririnui tēnā koe ā nau mai.[Thank you Mr Assistant Speaker. And so to the descendants of Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngā Pōtiki welcome draw hither; acknowledgments to you Mita Ririnui and welcome.]I am pleased to stand to take a very short call on this bill. It is a very important bill. As iwi you are part of the Tauranga Moana yet your bill stands alone by itself. I want to acknowledge the distance you have travelled to be here today for Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngā Pōtiki. I acknowledge the journey many of you may have made historically and I want to acknowledge the journey of Ngā Pōtiki and that it has taken 17 years to actually get here today.I want to acknowledge the many people who have helped to bring Ngā Pōtiki here. My focus as you realise is going to be on Ngā Pōtiki today. I want to acknowledge the work of Kathy Ertel who worked very hard. She was a strong advocate for the claims for Ngā Pōtiki. I want to thank our kaumātua Waka Tāite for his contributions here in supporting Ngā Pōtiki’s claims here today.I want to acknowledge our kuia up here Poihaere Walker who has been on this journey for a long time to get Ngā Pōtiki here. That is not the only reason I acknowledge her; I also acknowledge her because she is the mother of my executive assistant Elaine Durie. I want to also acknowledge Victoria Kīngi Mātire Duncan and Colin Reeder—all kaimahi who have worked to get Ngā Pōtiki here.As we have heard in the House today concerning these bills there has been a mention about drops in buckets. Well today there are 26.5 million drops in the bucket for Ngāi Te Rangi and over 3 million drops in the bucket for Ngā Pōtiki and as I have said in many of my contributions in the House it is not how many drops in the bucket you get but it is actually the ocean you create economically as a result for your iwi.This is an amazing bill. It is an amazing time for both iwi. I look forward to it coming to the Māori Affairs Committee and I commend it to the House.Bill read a first time.Bill referred to the Māori Affairs Committee.Waiata
Tisch Lindsay: Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngā Pōtiki Claims Settlement Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTisch Lindsay: Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngā Pōtiki Claims Settlement Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 24 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11218. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): I call Marama Fox—5 minutes.
Mallard Trevor: Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngā Pōtiki Claims Settlement Bill — First ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMallard Trevor: Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngā Pōtiki Claims Settlement Bill — First Reading[Sitting date: 24 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11209. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Kelvin Davis. [Interruption] Sorry I apologise to the member but I have called Kelvin Davis.
Hayes Joanne: Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeHayes Joanne: Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 24 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11200. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]JOANNE HAYES (National): Thank you—Hayes.The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Hayes—sorry I apologise.JOANNE HAYES: Ā ka nui te mihi atu ki a koutou ngā whānau o Ngāti Hineuru. Nau mai haere mai![And so I acknowledge you greatly the family of Ngāti Hineuru. Welcome come hither!]This is going to be a short contribution today because we have got to start looking to the future for Ngāti Hineuru. Much has been said about the content of your bill and the travesty that you suffered through land loss through the invasion of the Crown on to your land. So I want to turn you to looking towards your future and where to from here because this is all about the future for mokopuna in Ngāti Hineuru—remembering the past but looking forward to the future. So without any further ado I want to commend the bill to the House and look forward to the rest of the process to see your bill traverse its way into legislation. Kia ora.Bill read a second time.
Mallard Trevor: Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeMallard Trevor: Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 24 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11200. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Trevor Mallard): Joanne Hughes.
Rurawhe Adrian: Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeRurawhe Adrian: Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 24 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11185. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ADRIAN RURAWHE (Labour—Te Tai Hauāuru):Ā kāti rā korōia harerūia ki koe E Ihowa ngā mano tūāuriuri whaiōio kī tonu Te Rangi me Te Whenua i te nui o tō korōria. Nō reira anei mātou whakahokia te reo whakamoemiti ki mua i ō koutou aroaro mō ō koutou tini manaakitanga ka tukuna mai e koutou ki runga ki a mātou. Oti noa ka tono atu anō ki a koutou kia hōmai te ora te kaha me te māramatanga te rangimārie kia manaakitia hoki mātou i roto katoa i o mātou whiriwhiringa kōrero. Manaakitia hoki ngā iwi katoa kua tae mai i tēnei rā ki te whakarongo ki ō rātou pire. Nō reira ko koutou hoki nei te tīmatanga me te whakaotinga mai hoki ō mātou tūmanako atu nei i roto i ō koutou kōroriatanga. Mā Te Māngai e tautoko mai āianei ake nei āe.[And so glory and praise be to you Jehovah of the multitudes and the thousands upon thousands and whereupon heaven and earth are filled with your glory. We are here therefore returning and placing our words of praise before your multitude and thousands upon thousands for the protection and care bestowed upon us. Furthermore we seek that you make us well energetic understanding and calm and that you look out for us throughout our deliberations. Take care of all the tribes that have arrived here today to listen to their bills. Therefore our inspiration begins and ends also with you in your glory. May Te Māngai endorse this now and forever yes.]
Tisch Lindsay: Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill — Second ReadingText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeTisch Lindsay: Hineuru Claims Settlement Bill — Second Reading[Sitting date: 24 May 2016. Volume:714;Page:11185. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]The ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Lindsay Tisch): Leave is sought for that purpose. Is there any objection? There is no objection.