Oral Questions for 25 June 2024

Parliament - Live Stream and Question Time

Questions to Ministers SAM UFFINDELL to the Minister of Finance: What recent announcements has she made about personal income tax? Rt Hon CHRIS HIPKINS to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by all of his Government's statements and actions? DEBBIE NGAREWA-PACKER to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by his Government's statements and actions? Dr HAMISH CAMPBELL to the Minister of Health: What recent announcements has the Government made about increasing access to medicines? Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS to the Minister of Finance: Does she stand by her statement that "I can swear, better times are ahead"; if so, how many additional people will be unemployed in 2025 according to her Budget? LAURA TRASK to the Associate Minister of Health: What announcements has he made about delivering more medicines to New Zealanders? CHLÖE SWARBRICK to the Prime Minister: Does he stand by his Government's statements and actions? Hon CARMEL SEPULONI to the Minister for Social Development and Employment: Does she stand by all her statements made at the Estimates hearing of the Social Services and Community Committee on 19 June? Dr VANESSA WEENINK to the Minister of Education: What recent announcements has she made about specialist schools in New Zealand? TANGI UTIKERE to the Minister for State Owned Enterprises: Can he guarantee that the Government's replacement ferries for the Cook Strait will be cheaper than those to be delivered in the cancelled iReX project; if not, why not? TAMATHA PAUL to the Minister for Children: Does she agree with the Chief Children's Commissioner, who said on the creation of the Young Serious Offender category and military-style bootcamps that she wants "to see an approach that helps to rehabilitate these young people and help them on to a better pathway, rather than labelling them"; if not, is she taking an approach that will have "unnecessarily punitive impacts" on young people? TOM RUTHERFORD to the Minister of Police: What recent announcements has Police made about deployments in our city centres?