Petitions, Papers, Select Committee Reports, and Introduction of Bills

Petitions have been delivered to the Clerk for presentation.

Petition of the Free Speech Union requesting that the House remove clause 15 from the Counter-Terrorism Acts (Designations and Control Orders) Amendment Bill

petition of Jake Roos on behalf of Low Carbon Kāpiti requesting that the House urge the Minister of Energy and Resources to drop plans for a proposed biofuels obligation.

Those petitions stand referred to the Petitions Committee. Ministers have delivered papers.

2021-22 annual reports for the:

Classification Office

Cadastral Surveyors Licensing Board of New Zealand

New Zealand Trade and Enterprise

Office of the Children’s Commissioner, and

Climate Change Commission

2022-26 strategic intentions for the Ministry of Health

Notice of declaration of inconsistency: Voting age, in the Electoral Act 1993 and the Local Electoral Act 2001.

I present the Register of Pecuniary and Other Specified Interests of Members of Parliament: Summary of amendments to annual returns and initial returns of newly elected members, December 2022. I also present the following reports of the Controller and Auditor-General, entitled:

Observations from our central government audits, 2021-22

Insights into Local Government 2021, and

Coordination of all-of-Government response to the COVID-19 pandemic to 2020.

Those papers are published under the authority of the House. Select committee reports have been delivered for presentation.

Reports of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee on the

petition of Barnabas Fund New Zealand

two petitions of Greenpeace Aotearoa

petition of Nigel Woodley

report of the Governance and Administration Committee on the Fire and Emergency New Zealand (Levy) Amendment Bill

reports of the Petitions Committee on the petitions of

Dr Elizabeth Kerekere

Angelo Dumlao

Jan Logie MP

Jo Millar on behalf of Grey Power Otago Incorporated

Maarten Wagenaar

Maryam Ghadery

Pete Young

Robert Forsyth

Vince Siemer, and

Brian Borland

report of the Social Services and Community Committee on the Report of the Controller and Auditor-General Inquiry into the Ministry of Social Development’s funding of private rental properties for emergency housing.

The bill is set down for second reading. The report on the Report of the Controller and Auditor-General is set down for consideration. No bills have been introduced.