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24 May 2012
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Appropriation (2012/13 Estimates) Bill — Procedure, First Reading

[Sitting date: 24 May 2012. Volume:680;Page:2389. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]

Appropriation (2012/13 Estimates) Bill

Procedure

Hon BILL ENGLISH (Minister of Finance) : I hereby present the 2012 Budget Minister’s Executive Summary, the speech, the Fiscal Strategy Report (B.2.), the Economic and Fiscal Update (B.3), the Estimates of Appropriations for the Government of New Zealand for the year ending 30 June 2013 (B.5), the information supporting the Estimates of Appropriations for the Government of New Zealand for the year ending 30 June 2013 (B.5A Volumes 1-10), and the departmental statements of intent.

Mr SPEAKER: Those papers are published under the authority of the House.

First Reading

Hon BILL ENGLISH (Minister of Finance) : I move, That the Appropriation (2012/13 Estimates) Bill be now read a first time.

A party vote was called for on the question, That the Appropriation (2012/13 Estimates) Bill be now read a first time.
Ayes 64 New Zealand National 59; Māori Party 3; ACT New Zealand 1; United Future 1.
Noes 57 New Zealand Labour 34; Green Party 14; New Zealand First 8; Mana 1.
Bill read a first time.

Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First) : I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. On this side of the House we observed the ACT Party leader. He intimated no vote at all. So how—

Mr SPEAKER: Order! The leader of the ACT Party recorded a vote; I heard him do so.