Estimates Debate — In Committee

Kia orana tatou kātoatoa. Members, the House is in committee for consideration of the Appropriation (2021/22 Estimates) Bill. The Standing Orders provide for 11 hours of debate on the Estimates. The House has given leave to organise the debates by portfolio so there will be no set specific debates. All Votes are available for debate, but only specific Ministers will be available each day to speak to their indicated portfolios only. The Government has indicated that the Minister for the Environment and for Oceans and Fisheries, the Minister of Energy and Resources, and the Minister of Health will be available today. Each debate will be led by a call from the chairperson or member of the committee that considered the Estimates most closely related to the Minister’s portfolios.

This debate expires after 11 hours, at which point questions will be put that the Votes stand part of the schedules and of the provisions of the Appropriation (2021/22 Estimates) Bill

The questions is that the Votes contained in the Estimates of Appropriations for 2021/22 stand part of the schedules.

Environment and Oceans and Fisheries