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The effect of the previous National government's mishandling of the Incis debacle continues.

Health Minister Annette King said today she would be having more discussions with the Ministry of Health and the Crown Company Monitoring Advisory Unit to ensure both short-term and long-term pathology services options were put in place at Tairawhiti Healthcare.

The New Zealand Insurance Council's claim that there has been a more than 40 percent saving in workplace fatalities since the privatisation of workers' compensation was today challenged by Accident Insurance Minister Michael Cullen.

The primary school year for 2001 will start later and end closer to Christmas, Education Minister Trevor Mallard announced today.

"The new Stoke bypass proves a community can work together and realise a common goal," Transport Minister Mark Gosche said today.

He was speaking at the opening of a new 7.2 km Stoke Bypass near Nelson today.

The findings of a just-released report on the health of New Zealanders have been welcomed by Minister of Health Annette King.

"Scarcity has driven the price of toothfish up to very high levels, creating the potential to draw poachers into waters off the Ross Dependency in Antarctica", Foreign Minister, Hon Phil Goff, said today.

New Zealanders will find it ironic that the Leader of the Opposition is intending to issue report cards on the government's performance, given the failure of Mrs Shipley and her party at the last general election to secure a pass mark, Education Minister Trevor Mallard said today.

Thank you for the opportunity to address you today at this the launch of your new association. And congratulations to TUANZ for having the foresight and imagination to create a new association dedicated to the electronic commerce sector.

The Minister of Agriculture, Jim Sutton, said today he was becoming increasingly impatient with attempts to put pressure on the independent Apple and Pear Export Permits Committee.

Parliament's appreciation of the efforts of New Zealand military personnel in East Timor was expressed when Parliament reconvened today after the Christmas recess.

Former National Ministers Nick Smith and Bill English were aware of incorrect information contained in their Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (PREFU) statement last year but chose not to make the inaccuracies public.

We are here tonight to celebrate another stage in the life of The Film Unit.

Minister of Police, Hon. George Hawkins this afternoon announced that police managers will once again be referred to as commanders.

Prime Minister Helen Clark today said that the TVNZ Board would be called to account by its shareholding ministers for the fiasco surrounding the massive settlement made to former newsreader John Hawkesby.

- I am very pleased to have been invited to open today’s conference.

Education Minister Trevor Mallard has declined an application for integration for a new girls’ school on the Kapiti Coast.

Information presented to Minister of Police Hon. George Hawkins by a group who believe it could explain the Crewe murders, has been handed to police.

Prime Minister Helen Clark today said that the TVNZ Board would be called to account by its shareholding ministers for the fiasco surrounding the massive settlement made to former newsreader John Hawkesby.

The Director General of the IAEA, an intergovermental organisation within the United Nations paid a visit to Minister of Disarmament, Matt Robson today and spoke highly of New Zealand’s ‘moral authority’ in the nuclear disarmament debate internationall

My thanks go to Ngai Tahu for their invitation and welcome here today.
Our presence here at Onuku is a reminder to us all that the Treaty of Waitangi was signed not just at one place on one day but in many places on many days.

More energy trusts should invest in their communities through energy efficiency projects to lower power bills rather than returning all their dividends to consumers in small cash rebates which provide little lasting good, the Minister of Energy, Pete Ho

Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that Opposition leader Jenny Shipley is utterly confused about the nature of the possible visit by the Minister of Maori Affairs and other ministers to Waitangi tomorrow.

Conservation Minister Sandra Lee and TWC Minister Pete Hodgson today released a Department of Conservation assessment of Timberlands' native forests that ranks more than 90% as being of high or medium conservation value.