Parliament will meet Tuesday in Wellington. Photo: VNP / Daniela Maoate-Cox
MPs are returning to the capital city, as Parliament resumes meeting for the New Year.
Parliament will hold its first meeting of the year on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's wish for an early start means the House is sitting two weeks earlier than it did last year.
Because yesterday was Auckland's Anniversary Day, the Cabinet will also meet Tuesday.
Labour's Tracey McLellan and the Green Party's Celia Wade-Brown are set to be sworn in as MPs, as a result of the resignations of Labour's Rino Tirikatene and Greens' Golriz Ghahraman.
And the lengthy Address in Reply debate responding to the Speech from the Throne - which was suspended so the House could go into urgency in December - will resume.
The opposition is expected to raise the Treaty Principles Bill, the Defence Force's Red Sea deployment, and public service cuts as issues during the first Question Time of the year.