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More questions over 111 system
Tuesday, 11 March 2008, 3:32 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power, says Police still cannot tell the public how quickly they can physically respond to emergency calls, three years after the Government's review into the system had supposedly fixed the problems. More >>
Prisoner BBQ shows Corrections out of touch
Monday, 10 March 2008, 1:18 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Corrections Department continues to show it is out of touch with what the vast majority of New Zealanders think should be happening in our prisons, says National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
North Shore Hospital Concerns Continue
Monday, 10 March 2008, 11:12 am | New Zealand National Party
The bad news about North Shore Hospital just keeps coming. Now, Carol Wilson, the manager of North Shore Emergency Department has gone public about the overcrowding that is occurring in the summer months. She said, “My God, what’s winter going ... More >>
Another day, another health crisis unfolds
Friday, 7 March 2008, 11:21 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall says the country is heading into a winter of discontent over public health services as Labour's stewardship is found lacking. More >>
‘Lost tribe’ set to multiply under Labour
Thursday, 6 March 2008, 5:21 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Education spokeswoman Anne Tolley says Labour’s plans to raise the school leaving age to 18 are hypocritical when they have already given up on tracking the thousands of students aged over 14 years and nine months old who are not enrolled ... More >>
Labour continues to fail youth offenders
Thursday, 6 March 2008, 5:03 pm | New Zealand National Party
The Labour Government has failed in its promise to provide more support for programmes to cut youth offending, says National's Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Michael Cullen the lone happy homeowner
Thursday, 6 March 2008, 3:38 pm | New Zealand National Party
"The Reserve Bank's announcement that interest rates will remain higher for longer will make Michael Cullen the only happy home owner in New Zealand. He's been looking for an excuse to back off his latest promise of significant tax cuts and ... More >>
Planning failure leads to hospitals' crisis
Thursday, 6 March 2008, 3:20 pm | New Zealand National Party
Tony Ryall MP National Party Health Spokesman & Dr Jonathan Coleman MP National Party Associate Health Spokesman More >>
Labour breaks its own election rules
Thursday, 6 March 2008, 3:10 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Deputy Leader Bill English says Labour has blatantly broken its own rules on providing home addresses on election advertising after describing National’s concerns about the issue as ‘paranoid’. More >>
Cost of non-existent computer doubles
Thursday, 6 March 2008, 11:36 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Housing spokesman Phil Heatley has discovered that the cost of a non-existent computer system for builders' registration appears to have doubled. More >>
Collins Comments - 6 March 2008
Thursday, 6 March 2008, 12:31 am | New Zealand National Party
Do we need a 24-hour police station? Crime watch needs more volunteers. Graffiti vandals thumb noses at spray can ban. Electorate office on the move. O week at university. March against Electoral Finance Act. More >>
What's your position, Dr Cullen?
Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 5:27 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman Bill English says Finance Minister Michael Cullen has sown more doubt over his own policy to ban foreign investment in New Zealand. More >>
Labour in a muddle over organised crime
Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 5:08 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour’s so-called strategy on organised crime is in a total muddle and New Zealanders are no safer today than they were four years ago when Labour first started talking about it, says National’s Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Alleged scammer at large thanks to slack HNZ
Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 5:04 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Housing spokesman Phil Heatley says the embarrassing Labour debacle over a taxpayer-subsidised Housing New Zealand tenant who also owned a holiday home in the Bay of Islands has got worse. More >>
National on the Maori seats
Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 5:02 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader John Key says National remains committed to abolishing the Maori seats once the historical Treaty process has been concluded. “Shortly after I became Leader I made it clear that our policy on the seats would be linked to the ... More >>
Labour’s Maori Trustee move state-sanctioned theft
Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 10:51 am | New Zealand National Party
A Labour Government proposal to take $35 million from the Maori Trustee to build a Maori economic development agency is just another way for Labour MPs to write cheques to buy the Maori vote, says National’s Maori Affairs (TPK and Education) spokesman, ... More >>
Cullen's airport ownership plan sows confusion
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 5:11 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman Bill English says Finance Minister Michael Cullen's claim that a new clause will stop the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board from taking a stake in Auckland Airport appears questionable. More >>
Grant for bankrupt a sorry tale
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 4:47 pm | New Zealand National Party
Ruth Dyson needs to explain why her ministry gave close to $50,000 to an undischarged bankrupt who was later jailed for fraud relating to false grant applications, and why MSD has lost significant files relating to the case, says National's Welfare ... More >>
Questions for Police over Burton fiasco
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 4:13 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Justice & Corrections spokesman, Simon Power, says there remain many unanswered questions regarding Police failings surrounding the apprehension of Graeme Burton. More >>
Last-minute rule change is political opportunism
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 2:28 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour's last-minute attempt to stop the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board's bid for a minority shareholding in Auckland Airport looks like political opportunism, says National Party Finance spokesman, Bill English. More >>
