Business Statement

When the House resumes next week priority will be given to the remaining stages of the Land Transport Management Amendment Bill and of the Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Amendment Bill, and to the first readings of the Judicial Matters Bill and the Public Lending Right for New Zealand Authors Bill. Wednesday is a members’ day.

Noting that item 28 on the Order Paper is the Conservation (Protection of Trout as a Non-commercial Species) Amendment Bill, a bill that we have asked the Leader of the House about on numerous occasions, it now appears that another bill on the Order Paper is rapidly heading in that direction—that bill being the Climate Change (Emissions Trading and Renewable Preference) Bill. We are wondering whether the Leader of the House might indicate whether there is a point at which those two bills might cross over.

No. I think, actually, that doing something about global warming is slightly more important than doing something about trout.