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
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
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
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
National’s proposed law change will get more houses built, faster, Housing spokesperson Nicola Willis says. The Housing Emergency Response (Urgent Measures) Bill, proposed by National Leader Judith Collins, will do this by requiring every major city and town to immediately remove restrictions locking-up land and stalling intensification, while
* Judith Collins’ Member’s Bill will put in place emergency powers similar to those used to speed up house building in Canterbury following the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes * New law would require all urban councils to immediately zone more land for housing – enough for at least 30 years of expected
ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour. “It’s disheartening to see the Government changing the law in response to the March 15 murders in a way the Justice Minister readily admits wouldn’t have prevented the events of March 15,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT thinks it’s important
ACT Party ACT’s Housing Spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “The experts are in agreement: Labour’s proposed change to interest deductibility rules is a renter’s tax,” says ACT’s Housing Spokesperson Brooke van Velden. “A majority of economists, academics and property experts believe the impacts of the Government’s
Labour have stated that they will not be supporting my straightforward member’s bill to increase the maximum prison term for killing a police dog from 2 years to 5 years in a move that will baffle most New Zealanders, National MP Matt Doocey says. The Ministry of Justice has
