Schedule Of Hearings—Healthy Futures (Pae Ora) Amendment Bill

Submissions received

The Health
Committee has received close to 1,800 written submissions on
the Healthy Future (Pae Ora) Amendment Bill. Some
submissions have already been published on the Parliament
website. All submissions will be published by 12
September.

Selection of submitters for
hearings

The committee will not be able to
hear from everyone who has requested a hearing.The
committee has agreed to hear from submitters who have made a
substantive submission. This includes written submissions
that:

• are unique and do not constitute part of
  a form submission
• consist of more than a few
  sentences or a short paragraph.

The committee
plans to hear from 125 submitters, including over 80
organisations, for a total of 17 hours.

Health
Committee Chairperson Sam Uffindell would like to thank all
submitters for their contributions.

Schedule
of hearings

The committee will hold
subcommittee hearings on:

• Tuesday 2
  September
• Wednesday 3 September.

The
committee will also invite specific submitters to provide
evidence at its meeting on Wednesday 10
September.

Subcommittee
membership

The subcommittees are made
up of the following
members.

• Subcommittee A:
  Sam Uffindell (Chairperson), Dr Carlos Cheung (Deputy
  Chairperson), Cameron Luxton, Hūhana Lyndon, Debbie
  Ngarewa-Packer
• Subcommittee B: Dr
  Hamish Campbell (Chairperson), Jenny Marcroft (Deputy
  Chairperson), Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall, Ingrid
  Leary

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