Parliament’s Justice Select Committee will wrap up its hearings into the Treaty Principles Bill on March 3 and plans to present a report on the controversial proposed legislation by May 14.
The committee has formed two sub-committee to help it deal with the volume of oral submissions and released a schedule of its hearings, which will be livestreamed here.
The hearings began on January 28 and are set to stretch for 80 hours, reflecting intense interest in the bill, which attracted more than 300,000 written submission.
The hearing dates are:
Full committee: Thursday, 13 February (8.00am – 10.00am), Monday, 17 February (9.00am – 4.00pm), Thursday, 20 February (8.00am – 10.00am).
Subcommittee A: Monday, 24 February (8.00am – 5.00pm), Tuesday, 25 February ( 8.00am – 5.00pm), Wednesday, 26 February (8.00am – 5.00pm), Thursday, 27 February (8.00am – 3.00pm).
Subcommittee B: Friday, 7 February (9.00am – 3.30pm), Tuesday, 25 February (9.00am – 3.30pm), Thursday, 27 February (9.00am – 3.30pm), Friday, 28 February (10.00am – 4.30pm), Monday, 3 March (10.00am – 4.30pm).
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