A select committee report was presented when Parliament resumed at 2pm.
This was on the Petition 2011/0093 of Gary Williams MNZM, and Petition 2011/0094 of Felicity Emmett and 278 others by the Local Government and Environment Committee.
The Appropriation (2015/16 Estimates) Bill was introduced and read a first time.
Finance Minister Bill English began his Budget 2015 Statement.
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