The day in Parliament

Press, 2 October 1987, Page 5

The day in Parliament

PA Wellington The Leader of the House, Mr Hunt (Lab., New Lynn), told Parliament yesterday he expected debate on the Ad-dress-In-Reply to the Speech from the Throne to be completed next week. If. debate ended before Wednesday evening the first Estimates day would be held on Thursday. In reply to a question by the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Bolger, Mr Hunt said Parliament would begin on the Speaker’s estimates, and then the estimates for the Deputy Prime Minister. Mr Hunt said the estimates of the Prime Minister were not likely to be held unless Mr Lange was able to attend. An imprest supply debate would be held on Tuesday, October, 13. Mr John Banks (Nat., Whangarei) presented a petition of Patricia June Tuck, of Hamilton, and 5775 others, aimed against violence in society. The petition asked . that offenders serve the full sentence imposed on them by the courts, without any remission, and that no bail be allowed for serious crime. It also asked that positive action be taken against organised groups terrorising the community, and that a life sentence be for the whole of a person’s natural life. Three petitions asking that

legal status be given by statute to the unborn child were presented to the House, The petitions were presented by Mr Don McKinnon (Nat, . Rodney), on behalf of Cameron Nisbet of Auckland, and six others; Mr Lockwood Smiith (Nat, Kalpara), on behalf of Penny Jones, , of WoddhUl, and 11 others; and Miss Ruth Richardson (Nat, Selwyn), on behalf of P. F. Cahill, of Christchurch, and 50 others. < The report of the Medical Research Council of New Zealand for the year to December 31, 1986, was tabled. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Mr McKinnon, said he intended to move next sitting day that the House pay its respects to Jean Batten, who died in Majorca in 1983. The motion was passed unanimously. Members answered 21 questions. The Address-In-Reply debate, which was interrupted when the house rose on Tuesday, was resumed. The House adjourned for dinner at 5.30 p.m. The House resumed sitting at 7.30 p.m. Mr Paul East (Nat, Rotorua) moved the traditional amendment to the Ad-dress-In-Reply debate, saying that the Government had lost the confidence of Parliament . and New Zealand.. . ' Debate on the amendment was adjourned until next week when the House rose at 10.30 p.m.