Penny Simmonds

🗣️ Debates spoken in (213)

Showing the 100 most recent.

• Appropriation (2026/27 Estimates) Bill
  19 August 2026 — Committee of the whole House—Estimates Debate — Tertiary Education
• Education and Training (Early Childhood Education Reform) Amendment Bill
  18 November 2025 — Clauses 1 to 3
• Legal Services (Distribution of Special Fund) Amendment Bill
  18 November 2025 — Clause 1 Title
• Legal Services (Distribution of Special Fund) Amendment Bill
  18 November 2025 — Clause 2 Commencement
• Legal Services (Distribution of Special Fund) Amendment Bill
  18 November 2025 — Clause 3 Principal Act
• Legal Services (Distribution of Special Fund) Amendment Bill
  18 November 2025 — Clause 4 Section 94 amended (Secretary may enter into contracts with community law centres)
• Legal Services (Distribution of Special Fund) Amendment Bill
  18 November 2025 — Third Reading
• Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 2)
  11 November 2025 — Third Reading
• Education and Training (Vocational Education and Training System) Amendment Bill
  15 October 2025 — Third Reading
• Education and Training (Vocational Education and Training System) Amendment Bill
  14 October 2025 — Part 1 Main amendments, and Schedules 1 to 5
• Education and Training (Vocational Education and Training System) Amendment Bill
  14 October 2025 — Part 1 Main amendments, and Schedules 1 to 5 (continued)
• Education and Training (Vocational Education and Training System) Amendment Bill
  14 October 2025 — Part 2 Amendments to other legislation and revocation, and Schedule 6
• Education and Training (Vocational Education and Training System) Amendment Bill
  14 October 2025 — Clauses 1 to 3
• Education and Training (Vocational Education and Training System) Amendment Bill
  7 October 2025 — Second Reading
• Estimates Debate — Social Development and Employment
  10 September 2025
• Estimates Debate — Environment ⚠️ not imported yet
  9 September 2025
• Estimates Debate — Vocational Education ⚠️ not imported yet
  9 September 2025
• Climate Change Response (Emissions Trading Scheme—Forestry Conversion) Amendment Bill
  19 August 2025 — Second Reading
• Resource Management (Consenting and Other System Changes) Amendment Bill
  12 August 2025 — Part 1 Amendments to principal Act (except schedules)
• Amended Answers to Oral Questions — Question No. 11 to Minister, 16 July
  17 July 2025
• General Debate
  16 July 2025
• Education and Training (Vocational Education and Training System) Amendment Bill
  20 May 2025 — First Reading
• Education and Training (Vocational Education and Training System) Amendment Bill
  20 May 2025 — Instruction to the Education and Workforce Committee
• Social Security Amendment Bill
  10 December 2024 — First Reading
• Social Security Amendment Bill
  10 December 2024 — Instruction to Social Services and Community Committee
• Motions — Defence Act 1990—Extension of Authorisations
  19 November 2024
• Crown Minerals Amendment Bill
  19 November 2024 — Part 3 Amendments to rest of principal Act
• General Debate
  23 October 2024
• Resource Management (Freshwater and Other Matters) Amendment Bill
  23 October 2024 — Third Reading
• Resource Management (Freshwater and Other Matters) Amendment Bill
  22 October 2024 — Part 1 Amendments to Resource Management Act 1991
• Resource Management (Freshwater and Other Matters) Amendment Bill
  22 October 2024 — Part 2 Other matters
• Resource Management (Freshwater and Other Matters) Amendment Bill
  22 October 2024 — Clauses 1 to 3
• Personal Explanations — Estimates Debate—Correction
  24 September 2024
• Estimates Debate — Environment
  18 September 2024
• Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Bill ⚠️ not imported yet
  20 August 2024 — Part 4 Watercare Services Limited
• Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Bill ⚠️ not imported yet
  20 August 2024 — Part 5 Amendments to Water Services Act 2021 and consequential amendments
• Regulatory Systems (Education) Amendment Bill
  30 July 2024 — Third Reading
• Waste Minimisation (Waste Disposal Levy) Amendment Bill
  30 May 2024 — First Reading
• Waste Minimisation (Waste Disposal Levy) Amendment Bill
  30 May 2024 — Second Reading
• Waste Minimisation (Waste Disposal Levy) Amendment Bill
  30 May 2024 — Part 1 Amendments to principal Act
• Waste Minimisation (Waste Disposal Levy) Amendment Bill
  30 May 2024 — Part 2 Amendment to Waste Minimisation (Calculation and Payment of Waste Disposal Levy) Regulations 2009
• Waste Minimisation (Waste Disposal Levy) Amendment Bill
  30 May 2024 — Third Reading
• Annual Review Debate — Environment ⚠️ not imported yet
  2 May 2024
• New Zealand Bill of Rights (Right to Sustainable Environment) Amendment Bill
  10 April 2024 — First Reading
• Special Debates — Petitions Committee, Report—Make mobility parking enforceable on all public-use property and increase fines
  21 March 2024
• Address in Reply
  12 December 2023
• Fair Pay Agreements Act Repeal Bill
  12 December 2023 — Third Reading
• Members Sworn ⚠️ not imported yet
  5 December 2023
• Adjournment ⚠️ not imported yet
  31 August 2023
• St Peter’s Parish Endowment Fund Trust Bill
  30 August 2023 — Second Reading
• Imprest Supply (Second for 2023/24) Bill
  22 August 2023 — Second Reading
• Taxation Principles Reporting Bill
  22 August 2023 — Third Reading
• Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 3)
  15 August 2023 — Parts 1 to 3, the Schedule, and clauses 1 to 3
• Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 3)
  15 August 2023 — Third Reading
• Integrity Sport and Recreation Bill
  15 August 2023 — Second Reading
• Integrity Sport and Recreation Bill
  15 August 2023 — Third Reading
• Spatial Planning Bill
  2 August 2023 — Part 2 Regional spatial strategies
• Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 3)
  2 August 2023 — Second Reading
• Estimates Debate — Education
  1 August 2023
• Oral Questions
  27 July 2023
• Urgent Debates — Ministerial Resignation—Hon Kiritapu Allan
  25 July 2023
• General Debate
  28 June 2023
• Oral Questions
  22 June 2023
• Oral Questions
  21 June 2023
• Special Debates — Local Issues
  8 June 2023
• Child Support (Pass On) Acts Amendment Bill
  6 June 2023 — Third Reading
• Oral Questions
  30 May 2023
• Appropriation (2023/24 Estimates) Bill, Child Support (Pass On) Acts Amendment Bill
  30 May 2023
• Health and Safety at Work (Health and Safety Representatives and Committees) Amendment Bill
  17 May 2023 — Second Reading
• Charities Amendment Bill
  17 May 2023 — Second Reading
• Accident Compensation (Access Reporting and Other Matters) Amendment Bill
  16 May 2023 — Part 1 and 2, the Schedule, and clauses 1 to 3
• Worker Protection (Migrant and Other Employees) Bill
  11 May 2023 — Second Reading
• Employment Relations (Extended Time for Personal Grievance for Sexual Harassment) Amendment Bill
  10 May 2023 — Third Reading
• Annual Review Debate — Education
  9 May 2023
• Social Workers Registration Legislation Amendment Bill
  9 May 2023 — First Reading
• Annual Review Debate — Oceans and Fisheries ⚠️ not imported yet
  3 May 2023
• Oral Questions
  5 April 2023
• Crimes (Child Exploitation Offences) Amendment Bill
  5 April 2023 — Third Reading
• Employment Relations (Extended Time for Personal Grievance for Sexual Harassment) Amendment Bill
  5 April 2023 — Supplementary Order Paper 331
• Oral Questions
  28 March 2023
• Education and Training Amendment Bill (No 3)
  28 March 2023 — First Reading
• Regulatory Systems (Education) Amendment Bill
  28 March 2023 — First Reading
• Resale Right for Visual Artists Bill
  28 March 2023 — First Reading
• Child Support (Pass On) Acts Amendment Bill
  28 March 2023 — First Reading
• Oral Questions ⚠️ not imported yet
  16 March 2023
• Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society Empowering Bill
  15 March 2023 — Second Reading
• Debate on Prime Minister’s Statement
  8 March 2023
• Oral Questions
  14 December 2022
• Therapeutic Products Bill
  14 December 2022 — First Reading
• Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill
  13 December 2022 — Third Reading
• Oranga Tamariki Amendment Bill
  13 December 2022 — Third Reading
• Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Bill
  6 December 2022 — Second Reading
• Oral Questions
  22 November 2022
• Water Services Entities Bill
  22 November 2022 — Part 1 Preliminary Provisions
• Water Services Entities Bill
  22 November 2022 — Part 2 Water services entities
• Water Services Entities Bill
  22 November 2022 — Part 2 Water services entities (continued)
• Water Services Entities Bill
  22 November 2022 — Part 3 Operation of water services entities
• Water Services Entities Bill
  22 November 2022 — Part 4 Financial and accountability matters
• Water Services Entities Bill
  22 November 2022 — Part 5 Monitoring
• Water Services Entities Bill
  22 November 2022 — Part 6 Miscellaneous provisions