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Analysis - The 2025 Parliamentary year has ended and it was a monster.
In MPs' final hurrah-the adjournment debate-David Seymour announced "this government has passed more legislation in the first two years of its three than any MMP Parliament has passed in its whole three years."
Previous to this 54th Parliament, experts have said New Zealand passed too many laws; heaven knows what those folk would think now.
Parliament is breaking records both for bills passed and for a lack of careful process.
Here are a few numbers from this completed year and this parliament (so far). Where possible the current numbers are compared to previous years or parliaments.
The fun stuff
The vast throughput has chemical drivers and consolations. In his own summary of the year, the Speaker Gerry Brownlee revealed that the Beehive's in-house cafeteria, Copperfields, sold "60,000 hot drinks-mainly coffee".
Chris Bishop responded "I think I've taken quite a few thousand", and Nicola Willis piped up, "half of them were for me".
In a depressant mirror to the Beehive's stimulants, the in-house bar has moved from the Beehive to Parliament House.
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