National Party Chris Bishop With the Pullman Hotel receiving MIQ returnees again, it’s important the Government immediately releases the reports into how COVID-19 was caught by three people in the facility, National’s COVID-19 Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says. “The Government has indicated it will release the Pullman Hotel
ACT Party “The Prime Minister’s post-Cabinet press conference yesterday was a nauseating stream of self-congratulation when what she should have been doing was apologising,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Make no mistake, our biggest city is in a three-day lockdown because someone who worked in close proximity to the
National Party Simeon Brown This soft-on-crime Government has only filled one-third of additional police positions focused on organised crime despite gang membership increasing at an alarming rate, National’s Police spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “Of the 700 promised positions focused on targeting organised crime, only 239 have been filled. The
ACT Party “The Government needs to front up and reveal why Police have set up a key checkpoint between Auckland and Northland at Brynderwyn, which is in the Kaipara District, outside of Auckland’s level 3 boundary, and why,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Schedules 4 and 5 of the
ACT Party “We must hope that the Government’s testing and tracing can isolate this outbreak before a damaging extended lockdown harms livelihoods,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT’s primary concern is for all those businesses, workers and households who now face the uncertainty of a further lockdown, and
National Party Judith Collins The latest lockdown will be a devastating blow to New Zealanders who have sacrificed so much to keep this country COVID-free, Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins says. “I feel for the people who have already sacrificed their livelihoods, their jobs and their businesses to keep
ACT Party “The Government must ensure that journalists can remain independent of the state despite the $55 million of taxpayer money it’s just given to media companies,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Journalists must be more than free to bite the hand that feeds them – as the Fourth Estate
National Party Paul Goldsmith Labour’s messaging on New Zealand’s curriculum is confused and misses what is important to improve student achievement, National’s Education spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “On the one hand, Associate Education Minister Jan Tinetti says the re-announced curriculum review will focus on ‘wellbeing, identities, language
ACT Party “For three and a half years the Labour Government has been pushing housing further away from those who most need it, and from today that challenge will be amplified,” says ACT Housing spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “Warnings that increased business risks and costs being piled onto landlords by
National Party Nicola Willis The Government needs to show more urgency and commitment if it ever wants to make meaningful strides towards solving the housing shortage and getting wins for the environment. National’s spokesperson for Housing and RMA reform Nicola Willis says first-home buyers will be disappointed the Government
ACT Party “The Government’s dismal failure to be flexible and pragmatic about immigration to support the primary sector means hundreds of millions of dollars of losses for apple, wine and other growers is a near certainty,” says ACT Primary Industries spokesperson Mark Cameron. “That a scheme of financial inducements
National Party Simeon Brown Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis continues to display weakness as he denies the total destruction of Waikeria Prison by prisoners was a riot, National’s Corrections spokesperson Simeon Brown says. “For six days 17 prisoners were allowed to maintain total control over the upper jail at Waikeria
ACT Party “Reintroducing loan-to-value ratios (LVR) was as inevitable a move from the Reserve Bank as night following day, but it won’t make much difference to the fundamental reasons house prices continue to rise disproportionately to other asset classes,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “That house prices would rise
ACT Party “The Government’s new Covid-19 payment allowing workers to isolate at home is a welcome development,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT said last year that the Government should consider something similar. It is important that workers isolate for the whole country, and it is unfair an employer
ACT Party Thank you very much to everyone who’s here this morning and watching online. Happy Waitangi Day. It’s a good day for New Zealand. We alone celebrate a country founded by a voluntary agreement. A Treaty that guarantees each person – no matter their origins or ethnicity – their
New Conservative Our congratulations and commiserations go out to our nation’s primary producers, those who make us a prosperous country, those on whom we depend in times of economic hardship, those who toil seven days a week, almost every day of the year, our farmers. Congratulations because recent thorough
