Barbara Kuriger

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Barbara Kuriger
MP
KURIGER, Barbara - Taranaki-King Country (cropped).png
Kuriger in 2023
12th Deputy Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 December 2023
YearsTermElectorateListParty
2014 –2017 51st Taranaki-King Country 58 National
2017 –2020 52nd Taranaki-King Country28 National
2020 –2023 53rd Taranaki-King Country20 National
2023 –present 54th Taranaki-King Country36 National

In April 2014, Kuriger was selected as National's candidate in Taranaki-King Country to replace the retiring Shane Ardern. [6] During the 2014 New Zealand general election, she won Taranaki-King Country for National by a margin of 16,773 votes. [9] Her maiden statement, given on 21 October 2014, was the second to be given in the 51st Parliament's address in reply debate. [2] In her first term, Kuriger served as deputy chair of the health committee and as a member of the primary production committee, and was a junior National Party whip. [10]

Reelected at the 2017 New Zealand general election, [11] she served as the National Party's senior whip from 2018 to 2020. [10] [12] In March 2018 a member's bill in her name seeking to impose penalties on the parents of children before the youth court was debated and lost. [13] [14] Briefly in 2020 she also the party's spokesperson for food safety, rural communities, and women, and chaired Parliament's primary production committee. [10] After the 2020 New Zealand general election, in which she won a third term, [15] she was appointed spokesperson for agriculture, energy and resources, and food safety. [16] She chaired the governance and administration committee from 2020 to 2021. [10] When Christopher Luxon became the party leader in 2021, he appointed her as spokesperson for agriculture, biosecurity and food safety. [17]

In October 2022 Kuriger resigned from her agriculture, biosecurity, and food safety portfolios due to mismanaging conflicts of interest with the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) over the prosecution of her husband and son. [18] In December 2022, hundreds of pages of emails between Kuriger and MPI, obtained by Newsroom under the Official Information Act, revealed a pattern of personal attacks on MPI officials in relation to animal mistreatment charges filed against her son Tony. MPI commissioned Mike Heron KC to review its conduct in the case. That review cleared the ministry of any wrongdoing and found the investigation into Tony Kuriger was not motivated by political purposes, despite the Kurigers' repeated private and public claims to the contrary. [19] Kuriger refused to resign from Parliament over the incident. [20] Following a January 2023 shadow cabinet reshuffle, Kuriger was allocated the conservation portfolio but was moved outside of the shadow cabinet with no ranking. [21]

National returned to government for the first time in six years at the 2023 New Zealand general election. Kuriger retained her electorate by a margin of 14,355 votes, defeating Labour candidate Angela Roberts, [22] and was appointed Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives. [23]

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