Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader and Housing spokesperson A new GST-sharing scheme announced by ACT today would get councils issuing resource consents with the great gusto that they have for giving parking tickets. ACT’s GST-sharing scheme is estimated to deliver $1 billion every year to support local development
Brooke van Velden ACT Health spokesperson Pacific Peoples Minister Aupito William Sio has echoed the concerns of the ACT Party about the Government’s health reforms and we encourage the rest of his caucus to listen to his concerns. Sio has questioned the place for Pasifika in the reforms which
Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader and Housing spokesperson ACT’s petition to stop Labour’s interest deducibility change will be presented to Parliament today. Almost 16,000 people have gone to the ACT website to say they reject Labour’s proposed changes. ACT is listening and we’ll make
Brooke van Velden ACT Deputy Leader and Housing spokesperson Eight months after the Government made a $29.9 million agreement with taxpayers’ money to buy the land at Ihumatao from Fletcher, there has been absolutely no progress to build houses. Worse than that, the Maori Housing Minister Peeni Henare has
Brooke van Velden ACT Housing spokesperson Yesterday the ACT Party congratulated the Government on reaching 1,000 KiwiBuild houses. This momentous day for the Labour Government is just three years late and 15,000 homes behind schedule. At the 2017 election Labour promised it would build 1000 houses in its
Brooke van Velden ACT Housing Spokesperson The Government needs to scrap its Healthy Homes rules and go back to the drawing board, including properly consulting experts and landlords. Public Housing Minister Poto Williams has admitted that the Government’s Healthy Homes rules aren’t right but that landlords still have
Brooke van Velden The Government’s so-called “Healthy Homes Standards” come into effect today, but only for private landlords and not for state housing. These aren’t heathy homes standards, they’re double standards. The Government has painted private landlords as villains. The reality is many landlords have had so
Brooke van Velden ACT Housing spokesperson The Housing Minister has proved today that her so-called Healthy Homes Standards are simply double standards. Kainga Ora tenants are some of the most vulnerable tenants in the country. ACT has heard from many vulnerable state housing tenants with health problems who have been
Brooke van Velden ACT Health spokesperson Yesterday I successfully triggered an urgent debate in Parliament about the cyber security breaches at Waikato Hospital. It follows documents from Waikato District Health Board being released onto the dark web after the ransomware attack that crippled five hospitals’ IT systems in May. What’
Brooke van Velden ACT Housing spokesperson The Labour Government needs to explain why a terminally ill state housing tenant was left fighting to get a heat pump in the middle of winter when private landlords have a looming deadline to have them installed. Housing Minister Megan Woods said recently “…with
Brooke van Velden ACT Housing spokesperson Grant Robertson’s meddling in the demand side of housing won’t build a single extra home. Finance Minister Grant Robertson has agreed “in-principle” to give the Reserve Bank (RBNZ) debt-to-income (DTI) tools. A 2017 paper written by Ian Harrison, an economist who has
Brooke van Velden ACT Trade spokesperson The Government needs to let New Zealanders know where we stand with the UK on Free Trade after Australia got in first. Australia struck a deal with the UK which allows more Australians to live and work there and more of their products to
Brooke van Velden ACT Housing spokesperson and Deputy Leader Four years in, the Ardern Government couldn’t be failing harder at ‘fixing’ housing. The Real Estate Institute of NZ’s (REINZ) House Price Index (HPI) figures out today show 29.8 per cent growth in the House Price Index nationwide
