Budget Legislation To Be Completed Next Week

by Desk Editor on Thursday, July 24, 2014 — 2:17 PM

The programme for Parliament’s last week has been mapped out by Acting Leader of the House Chris Finlayson.

Finlayson said the Government would give priority to a number of bills including the Appropriation (2014/15 Estimates) Bill and Veterans’ Support Bill. There would be more valedictories on Wednesday.

The House would sit on Thursday morning to deal with a number of non-controversial bills and the debate on the Standing Orders Review.

The Ministry of Justice Statement of Intent was tabled.

Select committee reports were presented on the:

Briefing on prostate cancer by the Health Committee

Petition 2011/66 of Ann Chapman and 1053 others by the Health Committee

Petition 2011/81 of Patricia Maich-Armstrong and 1,241 others by the Health Committee

Report from the Controller and Auditor-General, Maintaining a future focus in governing Crown-owned companies, February 2014 by the Finance and Expenditure Committee

Report from the Controller and Auditor-General, Reflections from our audits: Our future needs – is the public sector ready? by the Finance and Expenditure Committee

Report from the Controller and Auditor-General, Watercare Services Limited: Review of service performance by the Finance and Expenditure Committee

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