Questions for Oral Answer - Thursday, 2 December 2004
Questions to Ministers
1. GEORGINA BEYER to the Minister for Social Development and Employment: What is the Government doing to ensure people
on Sickness and Invalid's Benefits have access to the rehabilitative services they need to enable them to return to work
where possible?
2. GERRARD ECKHOFF to the Minister for Rural Affairs: Will the Government be making a decision on public access to
waterways on private land before Christmas; if not, when exactly will this decision be made?
3. PETER BROWN to the Minister of Immigration: Can he explain the purpose of the Occupational Shortages List and how is
it operated?
4. Hon TONY RYALL to the Minister for ACC: How many prison inmates are receiving counselling for trauma, and for how
long has each been receiving such counselling?
5. LYNNE PILLAY to the Minister of Education: What progress is he making implementing the recommendations of the School
Staffing Review Group?
6. ROD DONALD to the Prime Minister: Will she reconsider the commitment she made in Laos to negotiate a Free Trade
Agreement with ASEAN countries, including Myanmar, in light of comments from CTU President, Ross Wilson, that there is a
risk such deals will "permanently damage New Zealand's manufacturing base"; if not, why not?
7. Hon Dr NICK SMITH to the Associate Minister for the Environment: Why should the public have any confidence in the
latest reforms to the Resource Management Act 1991 when the New Zealand Law Society has stated "Overall, far from a set
of proposals which will reduce costs and delays being incurred under the RMA, the net result, from our collective
experience, we have no doubt, will be worse for everyone - Councils, industry, community groups, and ordinary members of
the public."?
8. DAVE HEREORA to the Associate Minister of Communications: What has the Government done to make telephone services
available to deaf, hearing impaired and speech impaired people?
9. DAIL JONES to the Minister of Immigration: How many of the failed refugee status claimants who entered New Zealand
between 1 January 2001 and 30 September 2004 with false, lost or destroyed travel documentation are still in New
Zealand, and why?
10. Hon PETER DUNNE to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in her Associate Minister of Justice, Hon David
Benson-Pope; if so, why?
11. RODNEY HIDE to the Minister of Finance: What percentage of full time workers are expected to pay some tax at the 39
cent tax rate in the 2004/2005 financial year?
12. Dr PAUL HUTCHISON to the Minister for ACC: Does she agree with ACC policy that has resulted in ACC declining to pay
the helicopter expenses of rescuing a badly injured shepherd in Central Otago; if so, why?
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