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INTERESTING DEBATE
Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers
Question No. 4—Justice (Treaty Principles Bill)
4. Dr PARMJEET PARMAR (ACT) to the Associate Minister of Justice (Treaty Principles Bill): Why is the Government introducing a Treaty Principles Bill?
Hon DAVID SEYMOUR (Associate Minister of Justice (Treaty Principles Bill)): Next year, it will be half a decade since this House passed the Treaty of Waitangi Act, saying that there was such a thing as the principles of the Treaty. Since that time, Parliament has been silent about their definition while the courts, the Waitangi Tribunal, the Public Service, and many others have had their say. This Government is introducing a Treaty principles bill to democratise that process of defining the Treaty principles because, for the first time through this representative House of Parliament, all New Zealanders will have a say about what our founding document and our constitutional future means.
Dr Parmjeet Parmar: How will the Treaty principles bill honour the Treaty?...
www.parliament.nz/mi/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/document/HansS_20240214_050820000/4-question-no-4-justice-treaty-principles-bill/
Oral Questions — Questions to Ministers
Question No. 4—Justice (Treaty Principles Bill)
4. Dr PARMJEET PARMAR (ACT) to the Associate Minister of Justice (Treaty Principles Bill): Why is the Government introducing a Treaty Principles Bill?
Hon DAVID SEYMOUR (Associate Minister of Justice (Treaty Principles Bill)): Next year, it will be half a decade since this House passed the Treaty of Waitangi Act, saying that there was such a thing as the principles of the Treaty. Since that time, Parliament has been silent about their definition while the courts, the Waitangi Tribunal, the Public Service, and many others have had their say. This Government is introducing a Treaty principles bill to democratise that process of defining the Treaty principles because, for the first time through this representative House of Parliament, all New Zealanders will have a say about what our founding document and our constitutional future means.
Dr Parmjeet Parmar: How will the Treaty principles bill honour the Treaty?...
www.parliament.nz/mi/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/document/HansS_20240214_050820000/4-question-no-4-justice-treaty-principles-bill/