Business Statement

Next week in the House priority will be given to the remaining stages of the Insolvency Law Reform Bill, the Communications Legislation Bill, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Amendment Bill, and the Sports Anti-Doping Bill.

I wonder whether the Leader of the House could give us any indication at this stage as to whether he believes there will be a need for Parliament to set aside time for legislation that might result from the Auditor-General’s report today.

I do not know, of course, until I have seen the Auditor-General’s report and the Speaker’s response to that. However, I can tell the member that I have verbal advice from both Treasury and Crown Law that repayment of moneys has no relationship to the expenditure being unlawful, including the National Party expenditure, and that can be remedied only by legislation.