Standing Orders — Sessional

I move, That Kiwi Group Holdings Limited, the Judicial Conduct Commissioner, and the Māori Television Service be public organisations for the purposes of Standing Orders.

This motion will make Kiwi Group Holdings Ltd, the Judicial Conduct Commissioner, and the Māori Television Service public organisations for the purposes of the Standing Orders. The effect of that resolution would be to subject them to an annual review. An organisation that isn’t a department, an Officer of Parliament, a Crown entity, or a State enterprise is subject to an annual review only if the House has resolved by sessional order that the organisation is made a public organisation. As they have not yet been made public organisations, these entities would not otherwise be subject to the scrutiny of a select committee annual review process. This motion will rectify that issue.

To be clear on the three entities concerned, Kiwi Group Holdings Ltd is a holding company for a number of subsidiary companies, the major ones of which are Kiwibank Ltd, Kiwi Wealth Ltd, Kiwi Insurance Ltd, and New Zealand Home Loans—Kiwibank Ltd being the main subsidiary, which makes up 88 percent of Kiwi Group Holdings Ltd businesses’ operating revenue.

The Judicial Conduct Commissioner receives and assesses complaints about the conduct of the judiciary. The Judicial Conduct Commissioner’s statutory officers are the Judicial Conduct Commissioner and the Deputy Judicial Conduct Commissioner, and, of course, they receive public funding.

The Māori Television Service is a statutory corporation. In the 2018-19 year, the Māori Television Service received over $19 million in funding from the Crown and $16 million in additional funding through Te Māngai Pāho, and the Māori Affairs Committee has conducted five separate inquiries into the financial performance and current operations of the Māori Television Service since it was established, because the Māori Television Service would not otherwise be subject to an annual review. This motion will correct that anomaly and make them subject to an annual review.

Motion agreed to.