The day in Parliament
Petitions calling for a public inquiry into the role of counsel in legal proceedings relating to matrimonial and family matters, in the name of Anthony Fulton Reid, of Lower Hutt; and for a Royal Commission on electro convulsive therapy, in the name of the secretary of the Citizens’ Commission on Human Rights (Mrs M. A. Boyd), were tabled when Parliament sat at 2.30 p.m. yesterday. Ministers tabled the annual reports of the Commission for the Environment and the National Research Advisory Council. Members gave nine notices of motion. Ministers answered 17 questions. The Fisheries Amendment Bill, 1979> was introduced and an Opposition motion that it be referred to a selection committee was lost on a division, 30-47. The adjourned debate on the Budget was interrupted by the 5.30 p.m. dinner adjournment. When the House resumed at, 7.30 p.m., the Budget debate was continued until the adjournment at 10.30 p.m.
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