Tuesday, 6 May 2025

Standing Orders — Sessional

HansardID: e870ff6c-4197-42c0-a158-33a0def821f7

📅 Recorded under the Tuesday, 6 May 2025 session - Hansard's own transcript for this session runs through to Thursday, 8 May 2025, so this debate may really have happened on a later date within that range rather than on 6 May itself - we can't tell which exact date from Hansard's own record of it.

📝 Hansard marked this day's transcript "Corrected" (not yet "Final") as of our last import - it may since have changed again. Check the official transcript if anything here looks off.

← Oral Questions Urgency →

🗣️ Speech Chris Bishop (New Zealand National Party — Member for Hutt South)

Time unknown

I move, That the following sessional order be adopted:

Oral questions after urgency accorded

(1) During a sitting that is extended by urgency, oral questions will be taken at 2 pm on a Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, unless the Business Committee determines otherwise.

(2) Standing Order 59 is read accordingly.

This is a very short motion just to make clear that when the House goes into urgency, there will be question time on each actual day, even though, in parliamentary terms, it’s not a real day, but there will be question time during urgency. It just, essentially, makes sure that the Government doesn’t have to go through the Business Committee and get the Business Committee to agree or, indeed, move a motion like we are. So, hopefully, it will be one and done, and I suspect this will be an issue that gets referred to the Standing Orders Committee for permanent adoption into the Standing Orders into the 49th Parliament.

Motion agreed to.

🗣️ Spoke in this debate (1)

Chris Bishop (New Zealand National Party — Member for Hutt South)