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IRD to hire 300-400 staff to administer KiwiSaver
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 10:52 am | New Zealand National Party
Plans to hire 300-400 Inland Revenue staff to administer KiwiSaver are yet another example of the Labour Government's public sector hiring binge, says National Party Associate Finance spokesman Craig Foss. More >>
Rates inquiry: Just get on with it, Labour
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 10:50 am | New Zealand National Party
National’s Local Government spokesman, John Carter, expects the terms of reference for Labour’s rates inquiry to cover the burden imposed on councils through dozens of pieces of legislation passed over the past seven years. More >>
Briefing on Auckland laboratory contract
Tuesday, 31 October 2006, 9:28 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party members of Parliament’s Health Select Committee are looking forward to Wednesday's attendance by the Auckland District Health Board. National MPs wrote to the chair of the Health Select Committee calling for a committee briefing on the ... More >>
Lack of clear co-ordination of aged-care services
Monday, 30 October 2006, 4:53 pm | New Zealand National Party
A lack of obvious co-ordination between the many agencies involved in providing aged-care services is jeopardising the level of care given to elderly people, participants at National’s latest aged-care forum said in Wellington today. More >>
Corrections spends $455,000 to keep costs down
Monday, 30 October 2006, 4:42 pm | New Zealand National Party
A new office established by the Corrections Department to bring efficiency to the prisons construction project is simply another layer of expensive bureaucracy, says National’s Law & Order spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Labour plans to dip into public purse - again
Monday, 30 October 2006, 4:04 pm | New Zealand National Party
Labour’s plans to dip into the public purse to fund political parties smacks of desperation by a party facing huge financial problems, says National Party Leader Don Brash. More >>
Collins' Comments: 30 October 2006
Monday, 30 October 2006, 3:14 pm | New Zealand National Party
For what was meant to be the biggest change to our welfare system in fifty years, Social Development Minister, David Benson Pope’s recent announcement on benefits was a flop. Despite an imaginative use of jargon the big secret was the supposed ... More >>
MoH inaction on prostate cancer test guidance
Monday, 30 October 2006, 2:21 pm | New Zealand National Party
Almost a year after the Government promised new guidance on PSA testing for prostate cancer, nothing has been agreed on or released, says National's Health spokesman, Tony Ryall. More >>
Govt ignored officials' advice on KiwiSaver
Monday, 30 October 2006, 9:35 am | New Zealand National Party
Officials repeatedly told the Labour Government not to introduce mortgage diversion into KiwiSaver and, after initially agreeing, Cabinet did a U-turn, says National Party Associate Finance spokesman Craig Foss. More >>
Nanny state denying parents choice in education
Monday, 30 October 2006, 8:48 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Education spokesman Bill English says Labour’s nanny state approach to education is to blame for a $1 million law suit against the Education Ministry. More >>
Worrying ignorance displayed on welfare
Monday, 30 October 2006, 8:47 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins says David Benson-Pope has shown a worrying ignorance about the number of people collecting various benefits. More >>
Labour “utterly fails” on climate change policy
Monday, 30 October 2006, 8:46 am | New Zealand National Party
National Party Environment spokesman Nick Smith says Labour has “utterly failed” to deliver a coherent climate change policy and the public will be “justifiably dubious” about Helen Clark’s ability to deliver. More >>
Brash: Time to Stop Failing our Boys
Sunday, 29 October 2006, 2:02 pm | New Zealand National Party
28 October 2006 From the Cradle to the Jail: It’s Time to Stop Failing our Boys More >>
Prisons buy Playstations, Xboxes for inmates
Sunday, 29 October 2006, 1:54 pm | New Zealand National Party
An admission by Corrections that some prisons have bought Playstations and Xboxes out of operational funding is unbelievable, says National’s Law & Order spokesman, Simon Power. More >>
Mapp seeks to amend 90-day bill
Friday, 27 October 2006, 5:16 pm | New Zealand National Party
National's Industrial Relations spokesman, Wayne Mapp, is seeking to amend his Member's Bill to address concerns raised by submitters to the select committee process. More >>
Minister Ignoring Voluntary Sector Worries
Friday, 27 October 2006, 3:51 pm | New Zealand National Party
PRESS RELEASE FROM ERIC ROY, MP FOR INVERCARGILL Friday, 27 October 2006 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE More >>
Mapp Report - 27 October 2006
Friday, 27 October 2006, 2:03 pm | New Zealand National Party
Over the last 12 months I have been campaigning for my 90-Day Probation Bill to allow employees easier access into the workforce. This week the Bill was finally deliberated on in the Transport and Industrial Relations Select Committee. The next major event ... More >>
Make welfare report on Kahui household public
Friday, 27 October 2006, 1:38 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins says David Benson-Pope must promise to make public the report into welfare dependency at the Kahui household. More >>
Sickness and Invalids numbers reach record high
Friday, 27 October 2006, 1:37 pm | New Zealand National Party
National Party Welfare spokeswoman Judith Collins says the number of people collecting the sickness or invalids benefits has soared to record highs. More >>
www.mccully.co.nz - 27 October 2006
Friday, 27 October 2006, 11:52 am | New Zealand National Party
There has been a distracted air around Parliament this week. It’s not just been the coming one-week recess, or the proximity of the end of the year parties and the Christmas break. The machinery of Parliament and all its bureaucratic entrails have ... More >>
