Today Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly has recommended to the Finance and Expenditure Committee that an inquiry take place to assess whether Government agencies and banks are sufficiently providing services which allow for vulnerable people to continue to manage their financial affairs independently. “The loss of the ability to use cheque
ACT Party ACT Immigration spokesperson Dr James McDowall “It was heartbreaking to watch a media conference of Hawke’s Bay orchardists today revealing, as one put it ‘anxiety and desperation beyond belief,’ at the situation the Government left them all in this season by refusing to let more Pacific Island
National will seek support at the next meeting of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee to call in the New Zealand Super Fund and ACC Investment Fund to discuss the ethical investment parameters they work within, National’s Foreign Affairs spokesperson Gerry Brownlee says. “As a good international
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “Once again the Government is long on self-congratulation but late on delivery with its announcement of a travel bubble with Australia, but Jacinda Ardern couldn’t treat us like lucky little prisoners any longer,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “In an extraordinary admission today
The Government should not consider a trans-Tasman bubble ‘job done’ when it comes to reconnecting New Zealand to the world, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “Today’s announcement was too long in coming for the families who have been kept apart for more than a year and the
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “If the petition I received on the steps of Parliament this morning from Darryl Clarke seeking to have exhibitions separated from mass gathering rules is acted on by this Government it will probably come too late for many in this important sector,” says ACT
After questioning in Parliament today it’s clear Revenue Minister David Parker has no idea how his interest deductibility policy will work, National’s Shadow Treasurer Andrew Bayly says. “Minister Parker was asked some basic questions such as how many people will be affected by his new policy and how
Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis has done nothing to prioritise the wellbeing of frontline corrections officers facing an increasing number of assaults from prisoners, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Under Mr Davis’ watch prisoner assaults on corrections officers have increased by 92 per cent. The Minister’s response to
The handbrake applied by Jacinda Ardern’s Labour Government to mental health reporting is not good enough and warrants a decent explanation from the Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “It is not acceptable that health officials have been working behind the scenes to sanitise and slow
A parliamentary inquiry would finally give a voice to the desperate migrants who feel unheard and ignored by Jacinda Ardern and her Government, National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford says. National is calling for Parliament’s Education and Workforce Select Committee to open an inquiry into the migrant issues created
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “Today the Government will try its usual trope that ‘we’ve all worked really hard, and Australian travel is a reward for our sacrifice,’ but the public should look right through them,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “A Government that treated New Zealanders like
The National Party wants to see the law changed so that Kiwis can have their unfunded chemotherapy drugs administered in DHBs and cover the cost of this, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “At the moment cancer medicines unfunded by PHARMAC can only be administered in expensive private
New Zealand’s confusing, outdated and inconsistent Easter trading rules should be reviewed, National’s Workplace Relations spokesperson Scott Simpson says. “The rules are out of step with the world we live in. It makes no sense that some businesses can trade but others can’t depending on what they
ACT Party ACT Small Business spokesperson Chris Baillie. “Once again retailers and hospitality owners throughout New Zealand will spend Easter trying to understand why we still have the archaic laws that have no place in today’s society,” says ACT Small Business spokesperson Chris Baillie. “Business people across the country
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “Queensland has just given New Zealand a lesson in how to contain an outbreak of COVID-19 and lift a lockdown,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Part of the reason for success was metropolitan Brisbane’s ability to ramp up community testing. “A record 34,
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “How astonishing that the Australian Health Minister finds himself having to defend his Government having only vaccinated 670,000 Australians when New Zealand has managed less than 10 per cent of that number,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “This difference between Australia and New
