Two years of effective Opposition
Two years of effective Opposition
Over the past two years National has held this Government to account while working on our positive plans to continue the nine of years of progress we made in Government, Leader of the Opposition Simon Bridges says.
“National is the most popularly supported party in Parliament. We have a track record of effectively governing and delivering on what we promise.
“Over the past two years in Opposition we’ve released four discussion documents on the economy, primary sector, environment and international affairs. We have four more discussion documents on the way.”
In these discussion documents we have made a range of
commitments including;
• Requiring all
government departments and agencies to pay their contractors
within 30 days
• Overhauling the Resource
Management Act
• Repealing 100 regulations in
our first six months in Government
•
Eliminating two old regulations for every new one we
introduce
• Introducing a Primary Sector Visa
which will address workforce shortages
•
Increasing penalties for biosecurity offences
•
Modernising the rules around biotechnology
•
Introducing Mobile Rural Health Clinics.
National
has also committed to;
• Indexing tax
thresholds to the cost of living
• Not
introducing new taxes
• A $200 million cancer
fund
• An Independent Cancer Agency
•
Smaller class sizes
• Bringing back partnership
schools
• Reinstating maternity services in
Lumsden and committing to maternity care in Wanaka
•
Introducing roadside drug driving tests.
“We’ve taken a constructive and bipartisan approach to the Child Poverty Reduction Bill. We improved this with a number of amendments. We supported the introduction of a Climate Change Commission and we supported the first trach of the firearms legislation following the terrorist attacks in Christchurch.
“We’ve outlined constructive changes that should be made to legalisation including the second tranche of the Firearms Bill, the Terrorism Suppression Act and the Zero Carbon Bill.
“I’m
proud to lead the largest and most effective Opposition this
country has ever seen. Our 55 MPs will continue to hold this
Government to account and we’ll be ready to hit the ground
running should be have the privilege to Govern in
2020.”