David Seymour ACT Leader ACT would like to offer sympathy to the victims of the New Lynn terror attack. This kind of ideologically motivated violence has no place in our country. The ACT Party agrees with the Prime Minister that the individual alone is responsible. We stand with Kiwis of
David Seymour ACT Leader Jacinda Ardern’s decision to keep under wraps that a man had escaped from MIQ and posed a risk to the community shows how far her Government is prepared to go to avoid scrutiny. Ardern stood at the podium at 1 pm yesterday and neglected to
David Seymour ACT Leader Sixteen days on from the South Island going into lockdown there are still 22 people waiting for a second test. So this is our future; 22 people who are isolating, who’ve had a negative day five test can keep a million people locked down. The
Newstalk ZB yesterday evening revealed the reason we’re short of vaccine is because COVID Response Minister Chris Hipkins told Pfizer to slow down delivery. In late May Hipkins said New Zealand was due to have eight million doses ‘by the end of September’ but that’s no longer the
David Seymour ACT Leader At current rates, the Government is on track to run out of Pfizer doses on September 2nd. It needs to either source more doses, or slow down on the ‘incredible news’ of 90,000 vaccines per day. Ninety thousand doses a day is 630,000 per
David Seymour ACT Leader Campaigning by ACT has led to a change in the fishing and whitebaiting rules, making them fairer for all. Due to ACT advocating for fairness, the rules have now been changed. Had ACT not raised the issue, fishing would still be banned. On Saturday afternoon the
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party has today welcomed the Parliamentary Business Committee decision that a socially distanced Parliament will go ahead next week. Any ACT MPs who attend next week will already be in Wellington, be double vaccinated, masked, and taking all precautions. As Trevor Mallard has said,
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party yesterday welcomed news that the Government is now wastewater testing in 95 locations, up from 26 at the start of the outbreak. It has softened on saliva testing, and even said it was open to home test kits, a technology it has so
David Seymour ACT Leader Today’s Education and Workforce Committee was a perfect example of why we need the Epidemic Response Committee back. Opposition MPs were repeatedly shut down by Labour Party Chair Marja Lubeck, while Workplace Relations Minister Michael Wood was able to repeatedly attack the Opposition without any
David Seymour ACT Leader The Director-General of Health’s admission that the Ministry has known that five people may not have been fully vaccinated for weeks is completely unacceptable and leaves questions about whether this was a botched coverup. Radio NZ has revealed today that an investigation has begun after
David Seymour ACT Leader Eighty thousand vaccination doses in one day is good news. What would have been incredible news is if this rate was achieved, say, 100 days ago. That would have got the target 8 million doses done, and New Zealand might be in a very different situation.
David Seymour ACT Leader ACT is today calling on the Government and Ministry of Health to take some simple steps to be more transparent. They should release all the day’s data before or at 1 pm. This should be before, not after, the Prime Minister’s performance. The data
David Seymour ACT Leader When asked yesterday what the Government has done to protect New Zealanders against Delta, COVID Response Minister Chris Hipkins fell back on N95 masks for MIQ workers. In an appearance that showed Hipkins was unlikely ever a boy scout, the motto “always be prepared” certainly doesn’
David Seymour ACT Leader The ACT Party is today proposing a Major Events Insurance Fund to ensure the industry can survive. The events industry, like many businesses, is facing turmoil thanks to COVID-19. They spend months preparing for major events, only for them to be cancelled at the last minute
David Seymour ACT Leader Grant Robertson has today told the Finance and Expenditure Select Committee that it doesn’t matter how much of the COVID-19 Recovery Fund he’s blown on unrelated spending because he can always borrow more. Three months ago, there was only $5 billion left from the
David Seymour ACT Leader The same day the Government pronounced out that ‘74 per cent of currently eligible people are booked or vaccinated at least once,’ a much more telling figure emerged. The Prime Minister has said it does not matter when the vaccine rollout starts, but when it finishes.
