Tuesday, 22 November 2022

Appointments — Assistant Speaker

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📅 Recorded under the Tuesday, 22 November 2022 session - Hansard's own transcript for this session runs through to Friday, 25 November 2022, so this debate may really have happened on a later date within that range rather than on 22 November itself - we can't tell which exact date from Hansard's own record of it.

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🗣️ Speech Hon Chris Hipkins (New Zealand Labour Party — Member for Remutaka)

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Point of order, Mr Speaker. I seek leave of the House to move a motion without notice to appoint a temporary Assistant Speaker.

💬 SPEAKER: Leave is sought for that purpose. Is there any objection? There appears to be none.

I move, That this House appoint Barbara Kuriger as an Assistant Speaker until midnight on Saturday, 26 November 2022.

One of our Assistant Speakers, the Hon Jenny Salesa, is away unwell this week. The Parliament is about to, later on this evening, go into urgency for a prolonged sitting. Much of that will be in committee, and, therefore, there is a need for an additional Assistant Speaker to preside over some of the House’s deliberations during that time.

I’m sure Barbara Kuriger will have the confidence of the House in performing that role. She is well known to members across the House, having been a member for some time, and also having served—I think very well—as an impartial, fair, and balanced select committee chair. So I commend her nomination to the House.

Motion agreed to.

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Hon Chris Hipkins (New Zealand Labour Party — Member for Remutaka)