John Boscawen

It is a pleasure to rise on behalf of the ACT Party to speak on the Electricity Industry Bill.
I start by thanking the Minister of Energy and Resources, the Hon Gerry Brownlee, for the way that he has involved the ACT Party in the preparation of this bill and bringing it to Parliament. National has …

I do not intend to speak for a long period of time, but I want to make some follow-up comments to the comments made by my colleague David Garrett. It was very sad, to be honest, that no sooner had David Garrett made his comments and sat down, he was followed by the Hon Lianne …

It is a pleasure to take ACT’s first call in the Committee stage debate. I suspect that this debate will continue for many, many hours. This is a very sad day for New Zealand. The Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill has implications for all New Zealanders, and it imposes a tax on …

I have been very disappointed in the performance in this House from the Minister for Climate Change Issues, Dr Nick Smith, on the Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill. Last night, in answer to allegations by Jeanette Fitzsimons that this bill generated no net savings in emissions, Dr Smith quite correctly stood up …

The ACT Party opposes the Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill, and will be voting with the Green Party and the Labour Party against it. One of the privileges of coming to Parliament is that one works with many different people from both sides of the House. Our position is different from that …

I understand that the Chair will be happy to take a double-call, a 10-minute call. We are debating the name of the Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading) Amendment Bill. Rather than calling it that name, why not call it the “Lost Opportunities Bill? Why not the “When is a Subsidy Not a Subsidy, and …

I had not been intending to take a call in this debate. I will be very brief. I will make three points.
 First, I have never heard such a load of rubbish in my life. Carmel Sepuloni has just said that the Labour Party is voting for the Corrections (Use of Court Cells) Amendment Bill because …

I had not planned to take a call in the debate on the Whanganui Iwi (Wanganui (Kaitoke) Prison and Northern Part of Wanganui Forest) On-account Settlement Bill, but my ears pricked up when I came back into the House and heard the comments of David Clendon. I want to address a couple of issue that …

Parliament is an interesting place. I came down to the House at 20 to 8 this evening to do 50 minutes in the House before taking leave of the House at 8.30 to walk across the road and appear on the Back Benches television programme.
Hon Simon Power: Name-dropper!
JOHN BOSCAWEN: In demand, I say to Mr …

I too was a member of the Commerce Committee that discussed the Settlement Systems, Futures, and Emissions Units Bill. Unfortunately, when we first started to hear submissions I was unable to attend all of the committee’s deliberations and the hearing of evidence, but I acknowledge the work of the chair, the Hon Lianne Dalziel; the …