paragraphs 31-32. 27. The Commission recommends that parliamentary democracy in New Zealand be strengthened by: a) limiting the use of urgency to exceptional circumstances and subject to bipartisan support; and b) ensuring greater discipline in limiting the legislative programme to allow for sound parliamentary practice. 28. There is no formal mechanism that currently allows treaty body reporting or concluding observations from UN bodies to be reported back to the New Zealand Parliament and debated. Nor is there a specific human rights select committee that enhances Parliamentary oversight and strengthens accountability on human rights matters. 29. To better fulfil New Zealand’s international human rights obligations, the Commission recommends that the government commit to: a) formal tabling of all concluding observations from UN treaty bodies in Parliament; and b) establishing a human rights select committee or designating an existing select committee or committees to conduct comprehensive human rights analysis of all legislation both primary and secondary. 30. In 2012 the Court of Appeal affirmed that the policy of not paying family carers to provide disability support services to disabled family members constituted unjustifiable discrimination on the basis of family status. In direct response to this decision the Government passed the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Amendment Act under urgencyxxxii on 17 May 2013.The Act effectively ousts the Commission’s jurisdiction and removes any potential domestic remedy for unlawful discrimination relating to family care policy.xxxiii The passage of the Act from introduction to enactment in 24 hours with no opportunity for Select Committee Review, a heavily redacted Regulatory Impact Statement and a report from the Attorney General that the Bill breached BORA was greeted with despondency and despair by disabled people. 31. In it last report to the Universal Periodic Review in 2009 New Zealand advised the HRC that there was a work plan in place to address the systemic and serious abuse of the health of people with intellectual disability. There is currently minimal evidence of a commitment to address this abuse and the Act (including the manner in which it was passed) does little to enable good lives for such individuals. 32. The Commission recommends that the Government: Page 27 of 35