Prime
Minister John Key has replaced United Future leader and former Revenue
and Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne following his resignation last
week.
Rotorua MP Todd McClay will now take over Mr Dunne's portfolios as a Minister outside Cabinet.
He will be sworn in by the Governor General tomorrow morning.
Mr McClay was elected into Parliament in 2008 and was made the chair of the Finance and Expenditure Committee last year.
Mr Dunne resigned last week following an inquiry into the leaking of a GCSB report.
He became a minister
outside Cabinet in 2008 until his resignation last week and was the
Revenue Minister and Associate Minister of Health.
Mr
Dunne was the driving force behind the Psychoactive Substances Bill
which will force party pill manufacturers to prove their products are
safe before they are put on the market.
The bill was originally scheduled to pass into law by August 13, but Mr Dunne was hoping to push it through by mid-July.
All
eight parties supported the bill at its first reading in April. It is
currently before the Health Select Committee, which will report back to
Parliament before the second reading on June 27.
The MP for Ohariu first entered Parliament in 1984 as a Labour MP.
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