✨ Government Address
16 DECEMBER
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
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more resources to quality education, to prepare our young people better for life and employment, and to provide second chances for older people. It will provide the health and social services that are vital to well being in a fair and compassionate society. The coalition government recognises the need to help those who are, through misfortune, over-represented in the statistics of dependency, educational failure, ill-health, child mortality and law breaking.
The new government is also committed to providing adequate security, to ensure that people feel safe in their homes and communities.
The incoming government has agreed upon these, as among the fundamental principles by which it will govern. It is pleasing that the full Coalition agreement has been released, demonstrating how the government intends to give life to these principles.
The conclusion of the negotiations between National and New Zealand First is of course recent. At this point a comprehensive programme of the legislation and other business to be placed before this House over the term of this Parliament is being prepared.
An Appropriation (1995/96 Financial Review) Bill is to be introduced today.
The incoming government will, in the new year, place before you bills which will commence the implementation of policies to which it is committed.
The business which has been brought forward from the previous Parliament and is before you is substantial, and includes 65 bills. The Standing Orders of the House prescribe further business to which the House must attend in the coming months.
Supply has been voted for the period to the end of March 1997. An Imprest Supply Bill, to provide for supply for the balance of the period until supplementary estimates are passed in June 1997, will be placed before you in March.
The new members amongst you are, by common account, more comprehensively introduced to the conduct of Parliamentary procedures than were your predecessors. I understand that the seminars and presentations provided to members, and to their support staff, by the Parliamentary Services Commission and the Office of the Clerk, have been very favourably received.
HONOURABLE MEMBERS, you constitute a House which has changed in many respects. Some of these changes flow from the MMP environment, including the expanded membership, the number of parties with members elected, and the proportion of the members representing the smaller parties.
There are many aspects of your membership which give cause for celebration. I refer in particular to the attainment of greater representation by members who are women, who are Maori, and who have Pacific
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