Petition of Kate Day requesting that the House make public transport permanently half price for everyone.Petition of Seann Paurini requesting that the House create an Ombudsman empowered to oversee any iwi or corporation activity.SPEAKER: Petitions have been delivered to the Clerk for presentation. PETITIONS, PAPERS, SELECT COMMITTEE REPORTS, AND INTRODUCTION OF BILLS I now ask members to stand with me and observe a period of silence as a mark of respect to their memory.

I desire, on behalf of the House, to express our sense of the loss we have sustained and our sympathy with the relatives of the late former members. During her membership of this House, she chaired the Social Services Committee and was a member of a number of other select committees, particularly the Local Government and Environment Committee and the Law and Order Committee. She was New Zealand's first openly transgender member of Parliament. I further regret to inform the House of the death on 6 March 2023 of Georgina Beyer MNZM, who represented the Wairarapa electorate for the Labour Party from 1999 to 2005 and continued to serve as a list member until 2007. He was the Deputy Speaker of the House from 2014 to 2017. During his membership of this House, he chaired the Justice and Electoral Committee, and was Minister for Courts, Associate Minister of Justice, and Associate Minister for Social Development. I also regret to inform the House of the death on 27 February 2023 of the Hon Chester Borrows QSO, who represented the Whanganui electorate for the National Party from 2005 to 2017. During his membership of this House, he was Attorney-General, Leader of the House, Minister of Defence, and Minister of State Services. SPEAKER: I regret to inform the House of the death on 27 February 2023 of the Rt Hon Paul East CNZM, KC, who was a National Party member representing the Rotorua electorate from 1978 to 1996 and continued to serve as a list member until 1999.

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