Oral Questions - 7 May 2019

Questions to Ministers

1. Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements, policies, and actions?

2. JAMI-LEE ROSS to the Minister of Health: Does he agree with the calls made at the teen suicide awareness march at Parliament yesterday for more counsellors in schools as one measure to help reduce New Zealand’s youth suicide rates; if so, how many more counsellors will be funded over the next four years?

3. JAN TINETTI to the Minister of Education: What announcements has the Government made to get more teachers in classrooms and support thousands more in training?

4. Hon PAULA BENNETT to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements, policies, and actions?

5. Hon AMY ADAMS to the Minister of Finance: Does he agree with Treasury that firms’ own trading activity indicator from the most recent Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion suggests annual GDP growth of around 2.0 percent, and when was the last time New Zealand’s annual GDP growth was at or below 2.0 percent?

6. PRIYANCA RADHAKRISHNAN to the Minister for Social Development: What recent announcements has she made about making the welfare system fairer and more accessible?

7. Hon JUDITH COLLINS to the Minister of Housing and Urban Development: Does he stand by his answer to oral question No. 6 on 12 March that the additionality test for a KiwiBuild development can be met in four key ways, “by getting a development under way; by bringing forward a development, or the stage of a development that is scheduled for a later time period; or by redesigning part of a development to provide for additional affordable homes, rather than a smaller number of more expensive homes”?

8. Hon MICHAEL WOODHOUSE to the Minister of Health: What advice, if any, has he given to the Prime Minister about an early access scheme for patients seeking faster access to new medicines through Pharmac?

9. TAMATI COFFEY to the Associate Minister of Finance: What effect, if any, has the ban on foreign buyers of existing homes had on the number of foreign buyers of existing New Zealand homes?

10. Hon LOUISE UPSTON to the Minister for Social Development: How many of the 42 recommendations in the Welfare Expert Advisory Group’s report will be implemented by the end of this parliamentary term?

11. CHRIS BISHOP to the Minister of Police: Does he stand by all his statements, policies, and actions in relation to the New Zealand Police?

12. MARK PATTERSON to the Minister of Internal Affairs: What recent announcements has she made regarding the recovery from the devastating Tasman fire?

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