Question Time for 13 March 2019

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

PAUL EAGLE to the Minister of Housing and Urban Development: What reports has he seen on the Housing First programme?

Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in all her Ministers?

Hon AMY ADAMS to the Minister of Finance: Does he agree with the Prime Minister’s comment in relation to any changes to tax legislation, “we want to make sure that there’s simplicity in our system and, of course, we want to make sure that we don’t see some of those perverse incentives that might lead to an accountants’ boom”; and in his view, would a capital gains tax increase the compliance costs and complexity of our tax system?

RINO TIRIKATENE to the Minister responsible for Pike River Re-entry: What recent announcements has he made regarding Pike River re-entry?

Hon JUDITH COLLINS to the Minister of Housing and Urban Development: On what basis have KiwiBuild homes underwritten in Marshland in Christchurch met one of the four additionality thresholds applied to determine if a KiwiBuild underwrite should proceed?

JAMI-LEE ROSS to the Minister of Local Government: Is she satisfied that an overseas person that is not a New Zealand citizen or resident cannot lawfully make a donation of an unlimited amount to a candidate standing for local government election, and is she satisfied that the Local Electoral Act 2001 provides sufficient safeguards to ensure local government election candidates and local authorities are free from foreign influence by way of electoral donations?

DARROCH BALL to the Minister of Defence: What announcements has he made regarding Defence deployments to the South Pacific?

Hon MARK MITCHELL to the Minister for Veterans: Does he stand by all his statements and actions?

LAWRENCE YULE to the Minister of Corrections: Does he stand by all his statements and actions?

ANAHILA KANONGATA'A-SUISUIKI to the Minister for Whānau Ora: Is he doing anything to promote Whānau Ora and a whānau-centred approach across Government now that the Whānau Ora Review has been completed; if so, what?

Dr SHANE RETI to the Minister of Health: Does he stand by all his statements and actions around vaccination?