THE House of Representatives will resume sittings next Tuesday, as parliamentarians return from a brief Chistmas break which started in mid-December.

The agenda for Tuesday’s meeting was not available up to yesterday, but a loaded programme of debates on Bills and resolutions is expected for the pre-Easter session, which leads up to the 2016/17 budget debate expected to be staged in March.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator A J Nicholson is to make a statement in the Senate on Friday on the outcomes of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Paris, France, November 30 to December 12, 2015.

It was the 21st yearly session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the 11th session of the Meeting of the Parties to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.

In a release Tuesday, Gordon House said that the three strategic Bills fundamental to the Local Government Reform process, which were passed in the House of Representatives in November, will also be debated tomorrow.

The three Bills are the: Local Governance Bill 2015; Local Government (Unified Service And Employment) Bill 2015; Local Government (Financing And Financial Management) Bill 2015. The Constitution (Local Government) (Amendment) Bill was passed in both the Senate and the House of Representatives earlier last year.