Media release Ministry of Health 18 April 2020 Today New Zealand’s total number of COVID-19 cases has increased by 13, made up of 8 new confirmed cases and 5 new probable cases. The new combined total of confirmed and probable cases in New Zealand is 1422. There are no
Press Release: ACT Party “The Government’s decision to ban an estimated 200,000 Kiwis from hunting at Alert Level 3 is illogical and I have written to Jacinda Ardern and Winston Peters to ask them to reconsider this issue”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The move appears to be
Press Release: ACT Party “The Prime Minister’s announcement on Alert Level 3 this afternoon was broadly encouraging but she must provide more flexibility for retailers”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Alert Level 3 rules say it’s acceptable for a supermarket to have fifty customers inside at one
Press Release: ACT Party “New Zealanders deserve to the see the legal basis on which their civil liberties are being severely restricted”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “Today at the Epidemic Response Committee, the Attorney-General refused to allow the public to see the Crown Law legal advice on the
Press Release: ACT Party D-Day The Government will tell us on 20 April whether the Level 4 lockdown continues past 22 April. It needs to give clear guidance on what a Level 3 world looks like because business cannot prepare with two days’ notice. But there is another problem. Many
Press Release: ACT Party “Today’s Epidemic Response Committee hearing revealed that businesses want the Government to start listening to them, provide clear guidance about the rules at lower Alert Levels, and hit pause on new regulations”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “We’re told that we’re all in
Press Release: ACT Party “Former chief executive of BusinessNZ Phil O’Reilly and industry leaders have endorsed ACT’s view that the Government should be taking a ‘safety’ rather than an ‘essential’ approach to businesses opening”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. Ministerial Statement – State of National Emergency – Video 5 from
Press Release: ACT Party “The Government needs to come clean on the reason why many frontline health workers can’t get PPE”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “I am hearing many stories from health workers about a lack of PPE on the frontline. “That clearly signals there’s an issue
Press Release: ACT Party “While New Zealanders are distracted by the greatest public health emergency of our lives, the Government is sneaking its political agenda through Parliament”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government has given the Justice Committee just two months to consider the Electoral (Registration of Sentenced Prisoners)
“The Police are using new guidelines for frontline officers for propaganda instead of being open and transparent with the public about their new powers”, according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “On Thursday, the Epidemic Response Committee requested that Police Commissioner Mike Bush provide it with the operational guidelines under which
Press Release: New Conservative New Conservative calls on the government to allow expansion of relationship bubbles, the start-up of more businesses and an ease up on travel restrictions by the end of this week. COVID-19 has neither destroyed our population nor even caused widespread debilitating sickness, even though we have
Press Release: ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour is questioning whether the Finance Minister has enough information about COVID-19 to know when New Zealand should come out of lockdown. “Every day of this lockdown is costing a fortune. Livelihoods are being lost as businesses burn up their working capital and
Press Release: ACT Party “The Finance Minister must commit, as far as is possible, to returning New Zealand to pre-COVID-19 economic settings, rather than using the current crisis to make permanent ideological changes”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Grant Robertson told the Epidemic Response Committee yesterday morning he’s reconsidering
Press Release: New Conservative This is the question burning in most New Zealanders’ minds: What are the key indicators for decision making? How many new cases are required for the lockdown to continue? How many deaths? What is the plan when the lockdown ends? We understand that the government is
Press release: ACT Party “As the COVID-19 lockdown evolves, the Government must walk back its restriction on bakeries, butchers and fruit and vegetable stores”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government has effectively given supermarkets a monopoly on food, but it seems surprised that prices have risen. In some areas,
Press Release: ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour is asking the public to submit and vote on the questions it would like answered by the Government on its response to COVID-19. “Keeping our democracy strong through the COVID-19 crisis will be vital”, says Mr Seymour. “Parliament has been adjourned but
