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New Zealand's speaker babysits MP's newborn during debate
New Zealand's parliament had a special guest on the chamber floor, and it was none other than a newborn baby.
The country's parliamentary speaker Trevor Mallard cradled the one-month-old son of lawmaker Tāmati Coffey while presiding over a debate and it doesn't get any better than that.
The speaker even tweeted about the adorable incident.
“There are times when I can be vaguely useful,” Mallard told Reuters and added that he tries to help take care for lawmakers’ babies whenever possible.
The baby was cuddled by his father in the debating chamber on Wednesday when the speaker offered to hold him instead; hardly surprising as Mallard is the one who relaxed rules in 2017 to make parliament more child-friendly.