The latest figures from the Ministry of Social Development show the Government must urgently tackle long-term benefit dependency, National’s Social Development and Employment spokesperson Louise Upston says. “While the number of people on benefits has decreased slightly, the figures show more than 200,000 New Zealanders are still without
Labour’s refusal to back a select committee inquiry into the issues migrants face is a further blow to those desperate to be reunited with their partners and children, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. Labour members of Parliament’s Education and Workforce Committee voted against Ms Stanford’s
The Housing Minister’s lack of answers about how the Government will allocate housing infrastructure funding shows why Labour needs to support National’s plan, National’s Infrastructure spokesperson Andrew Bayly says. “The National Party introduced a policy to deal with the housing supply shortage. Our plan is comprehensive, easily
Green Party Green Party spokesperson for Social Development & Employment Ricardo Menéndez March The Green Party is putting a Member’s Bill into the ballot today which will be a significant step towards overhauling the Social Security Act. Green Party spokesperson for Social Development & Employment Ricardo Menéndez March will
ACT Party ACT Social Development and Children spokesperson Karen Chhour. “New Zealand smokers will who can least afford it will spend more on their habit and in turn do harm to those around them if the Government mandates lower nicotine in tobacco,” says ACT Social Development and Children spokesperson Karen
Labour is failing New Zealanders struggling with mental illness, National’s Mental Health spokesperson Matt Doocey says. “This isn’t a matter of the Government failing in just one area of mental health management and services. There are failures and incompetency across the board. “Wait times have ballooned under Labour
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour ACT Leader David Seymour has welcomed the Government’s decision to trial Datamine’s ëlarm with border workers. “We’ve been urging the Government to adopt ëlarm for 314 days now,” says Mr Seymour. “It shouldn’t have taken ten months for the Government
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “Parliament is quite rightly this afternoon urgently debating a letter from Finance Minister Grant Robertson to the chair of Air New Zealand that has more than the whiff of Rob Muldoon about it,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “I requested this debate because Grant
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. ACT is calling on the Prime Minister to publicly reject the recommendations of a Cabinet-commissioned report which aims to give effect to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. “He Puapua represents a significant and serious departure from the idea that all
Parliament’s Epidemic Response Committee must return to allow proper scrutiny of the Government’s Covid-19 Response, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins and National’s Covid-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop say. “The Government-controlled Health Select Committee has proven itself ill-equipped and ill-suited to the task of properly examining the
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “The world is currently facing greater challenges than it has in decades, with a pandemic, a decline in democracy and geopolitical tensions on the rise. More than ever we need to unite New Zealand behind good ideas, and that takes honest conversations about the
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “The sooner the Government’s COVID tsar Sir Brian Roche can be brought before a select committee to explain how he proposes to fix the shambles he’s taken on the better,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Today’s Health Select Committee revelations that
There is no wonder corrections officers have lost confidence in Minister Kelvin Davis when his focus lies in creating inter-prison competitions and not on keeping his staff safe, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Establishing inter-prison competitions should not be the priority right now. “Prisoner assaults on corrections officers
ACT Party ACT’s Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron. “The Government’s emotive decision to ban live exports ignores the evidence and is a kick in the guts for the rural sector”, says ACT’s Primary Industries spokesperson and dairy farmer Mark Cameron. “Live exports represent a critical revenue stream
ACT Party ACT Health Spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “The Prime Minister should pull Stuart Nash into line after he called a parliamentary colleague a ‘nutter’”, says ACT Health Spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “Speaking on Mike Hosking’s show this morning, Stuart Nash referred to Nicole McKee as a ‘nutter’ and,
National has designed a streamlined mechanism for allocating the Government’s $3.8 billion fund for housing infrastructure, National’s Infrastructure spokesperson Andrew Bayly says. A Member’s Bill drafted by Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins, which will go into the ballot this week, will provide councils with a
