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Labour’s questions at a Health Select Committee described as “patsy” prompted House Speaker Trevor Mallard to give National extra questions in Parliament to scrutinise the COVID-19 response.
National MP Chris Bishop complained to Mallard after Labour MP Liz Craig – chair of the Health Select Committee – let officials speak for more than 20 minutes about widely accessible information, during a briefing on Wednesday on the Government’s COVID-19 response.
It prompted National to call for the return of the Epidemic Response Committee to hold the Government to account, after what leader Judith Collins described as “farcical nonsense” at the Health Select Committee.
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Wednesday, 14 April 2021, 12:17 pm
“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 an MIQ hotel worker
hadn’t been tested for COVID for six months before testing
positive for the virus is evidence of how bad things are
across the COVID response.
“All these issues are in
one way or another relating back to an alarming shortcoming
around information systems.
“We don’t know who’s