Tuesday, 9 December 2025
Urgent Debates Declined β Public Statements Regarding Former Deputy Commissioner of Police
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Recorded under the Tuesday, 9 December 2025 session -
Hansard's own transcript for this session runs through to
Friday, 12 December 2025, so this debate may
really have happened on a later date within that range rather than on
9 December itself - we can't tell which
exact date from Hansard's own record of it.
π 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.
Time unknown
Members, Iβve received a letter from Mariameno Kapa-Kingi seeking to debate under Standing Order 399 public statements by the former Commissioner of Police and both the former and current Ministers of Police regarding former Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming. Urgent debates are a way of holding the current Government accountable for an action for which it is responsible, so an urgent debate cannot be held on matters for which a previous Government had some responsibility. Urgent debates are not a means through which to discover what a Minister knew or why they said something; that is the role of parliamentary questions. The application is declined.
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- Hon Gerry Brownlee (New Zealand National Party β List Member)