Covid 19 Response
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A more civil vaccine policy
A year after the violent break-up of the anti-mandate protests, there is a long tail of division, and resentment.
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COVID-19 Response, vaccines, and mandates
Labour’s response to Covid has left a long tail of division and resentment. Many New Zealanders are hurt that they were ostracised by a Government that turned its back on them.
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Unreal COVID isolation rules must go
“ACT hears the hotel industry’s call to remove COVID isolation requirements before the FIFA World Cup. If a star player catches COVID six days before a major game, Labour’s ‘abundance of caution’ will be a national embarrassment as the world sees New Zealand is stuck in 2021,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.
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Govt must explain $10k a day COVID storage
“The same Government that banned private companies from importing rapid antigen tests now admits it’s spent $45 million in 14 months on storage for expired and expiring rapid antigen tests (RATs) and PPE that will likely never be used,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.
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Police were put on the frontline fighting Labour’s war
“The Parliamentary riots reflect a sad chapter in New Zealand history, there were ugly acts on all sides of it which can’t be excused but its important to look at what caused the event – needlessly inflexible vaccination policy and an immature and divisive response from the Government,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.
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Dictatorship of academics still running COVID-19 policy
“A dictatorship of unelected academics is still running what remains of the Government’s Covid-19 policy, imposing significant costs on New Zealanders for little benefit, and showing reckless disregard for working people and businesses,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.
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COVID Isolation Periods make New Zealand a global oddity
“Retaining a seven-day mandatory COVID isolation period makes New Zealand a global oddity. It’s a kind of Hermit Kingdom redux, 2023 edition, where Labour keeps treating adults like kids and putting costs on the economy like money is no object,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.
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Control freak Govt should apologise, drop mandates
“New Zealanders were illegally punished by a control freak Government for no public health benefit at all”, says ACT Leader David Seymour.
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Labour politicises public service
"Te Whatu Ora Chair Rob Campbell’s rant about Three Waters and co-governance breaches the code of conduct for board members of Crown entities and he should be pulled up by the Public Service Commissioner”, says ACT Leader David Seymour.
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David Seymour
Hon David Seymour is the Minister of Regulation and the Associate Minister of Health (Pharmac), Finance, and Education (Partnership Schools). He was first elected to Parliament as MP for Epsom in 2014, at which point he became Leader of the ACT Party. David has degrees from the University of Auckland in electrical engineering and philosophy. Before politics, he worked as an electrical engineer in New Zealand and for private sector think tanks in Canada