David Seymour ACT Party Leader Creating a new public holiday on a whim is causing chaos amongst businesses, our health system and schools, what’s worse, we’re behind the world again after waiting two weeks for Jacinda Ardern to get home from New York. This public holiday is estimated
David Seymour ACT Party Leader In a cost of living crisis, the ACT Party cannot support yet another public holiday. It would amount to the Government making small business pay for pageantry. New Zealanders are feeling the loss of the Queen, she was a true leader who selflessly served the
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The buck stops at the top, and the Prime Minister must explain why her Ministers didn’t fess up about the Government stuff up that put Northland into an eleven-day, $30 million lockdown. The Prime Minister must explain whether she knew what Grant Robertson was
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Government needs to front up and tell the people of New Zealand the truth on a very simple question: do they want to make speaking Maori compulsory for holding a practicing certificate as a teacher, or not? This morning, two spokespeople contradicted each other
David Seymour ACT Party Leader If shareholders wanted out of Kiwibank it should have been floated on the open market, instead, the Government is making it a taxpayers’ problem. I get that ACC and NZ Super don’t want to own it, but why is the taxpayer on the hook?
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Ombudsman should investigate Gaurav Sharma’s claim that Labour MPs are being coached on how to deliberately subvert the Official Information Act. Yesterday, I wrote to Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier to ask that his office investigate Sharma’s claims. Dr Sharma told Newshub that
David Seymour ACT Party Leader One year from the Delta outbreak, New Zealand is ‘leading’ the Anglosphere for COVID cases and death rates, and Jacinda Ardern’s abundance of caution has been replaced by an abundance of social and economic costs – but she’s nowhere to be seen. The main
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Less than an hour before Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr was due to be questioned at Select Committee he issued a 13-page mea culpa. In the report, RBNZ says that it had to do Large Scale Asset Purchases (LSAP) because interest rates couldn’t go
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Labour Party’s plan to change donation laws, dropping a bill with just a few hours’ notice is an act that chips away at the strength and trust of our democracy. Labour will drop the non-disclosable threshold from $15,000 down to $5000. This
David Seymour ACT Leader The Government’s decision not to use the red setting of the traffic light system confirms what ACT has been saying for months about the traffic light system, it is redundant and should be dumped. The traffic light system started out as a matrix of masking,
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Government shouldn’t wait for Minister Verrall’s press conference this week, they should hurry up and scrap the Traffic Light Framework when Parliament votes for its continuation this afternoon. The announced press conference is just political theatre. If Labour want to do the
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Most New Zealanders could only ever dream of a $40,000 two-week trip to Europe but that’s what five MPs, including the Speaker have just completed and are charging back to the taxpayer. While New Zealanders are being squeezed from every direction by a
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Only this government could hire thousands of bureaucrats to take money from New Zealanders and then hundreds more to work out how to give the money back. The Government was dragged kicking and screaming to admit there was a cost of living crisis. Its $350
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Health Minister Andrew Little today told Parliament there are 64 additional vacancies for midwives than he previously stated – if he wants to fill those vacancies it’s time to lift the vaccine mandates. Little had to correct the record in Parliament today. He previously said
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Minister for Corporate Welfare Stuart Nash should tell New Zealanders the full story about what results $3,000,000,000 in taxpayers’ money funnelled through the Provincial Growth Fund has achieved. Launching the PGF, Shane Jones said: “We are being bold and we are being
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr is verging on self parody, giving a speech to the Central Banking Summer Meetings entitled ‘Why we embraced Te Ao Maori’ amidst a cost-of-living crisis that hits Maori hardest. Two years ago I asked Adrian Orr at select committee, won’
