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Deborah Coddington's avatar

Excellent piece - should be writ large on the walls of every newsroom in NZ. A good MP can stay up half the night reading the submissions to SC and many of them do repeat the same points. Not sure if I'm correct, but I think NZ is one of the few democratic countries (Westminster system) which allows submitters to appear in person? SC also are tasked with the appearances of HO departments, ministries, and so on. But they are great places - a pity the public don't see them at work more often as the Select Committee in action is nothing like the debating chamber. Good working relationships across parties are forged in the select committee room - especially as MPs from small parties often have to sub for their fellow MPs on another committe.

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Graeme Edgeler's avatar

I feel like that, on average, my submissions are probably more useful than the average submission to a select committee. I usually ask to be heard, but I very much do not expect to heard, unless, perhaps, the Committee asked me to submit on the Bill.

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