Question Time 21.08.2024

Te Pāti Māori was completely absent today, but I was representing in the team colours. 1. Chippy to Winston C 7, WP 4

Winston as acting PM. Firearms registry: 'final product has yet to be produced' - Winston.

Lots more waffle from Winston. 'Everyone except the Act party voted for it' - Chippy

'Stop wasting Parliament's time ... unlearned humbug' - Winston

'100% out-of-order' - Gary

2. Van Der Molen to Willis TVM 5, NW 5

OCR cut by 25% 'Wellington hates you and you know it' - Gary on Nicola.

3% OCR by mid-2027: Reserve Bank.

'The only good thing about this government is that it might lower the price of weed by accident' - Gary

3. Verrall to Reti AV 6, SR 4

Overspending or underfunding? Ayesha asked this about several parts of the health sector, to largely anecdotal answers.

'Privatised healthcare is the enemy of public healthcare' - Gary

4. Wedd to Stanford CW 5, ES 4 'More support for Kiwi businesses by revitalising the RSE scheme' - Erica.

Why make these changes? 'They weren't able to exploit them enough' - Gary

She doesn't see them as people; she sees them as economic units.

5. Cameron to McKee MC 4, NM 4

'The Arms act is over 40 years old and does need revitalising' - McKee $150 million was spent of two firearms confiscation drives, yet the crims have guns anyway ... we need tighter laws, not less transparency. 6. McAnulty to Bishop KMA 8, CB 0

It was supposed to be a question about kids in emergency housing, but Kieran refused to ask the question unless it was for Tama Potaka rather than Bishop, as it was regarding one of his statements. Watch it!

7. Redmayne to McClay SR 5, TM 4

Agriculture: 'doubling exports by value over 10 years ... building trust and confidence as we get [correction] Wellington out of farming' -- McClay Laundry list of new plans... 'shitting in the rivers, nitrate on the land, cows up to their fucking knees in mud' - Gary. 8. Tamatha to Tama Potaka TP 7, TP 4

More on the emergency housing changes. 'His loyalty to the party overrides his loyalty to his own people' - (Correction) Gary about Potaka.

'A bit of order, for goodness sake' - Brownlee 'Children who have gone from emergency housing to warm, safe homes ' - Potaka 'Take responsibility' - Tamatha.

9. Garcia to Potaka PG 6, TP 4

'540 households have been supported out of emergency housing.' - Potaka

$84 million to extend emergency housing for 2 years. 10. Tinetti to Stanford JT 7, ES 5

More maths debate... 'we have rewritten and completed the maths curriculum' - Stanford. 'They let down a generation of Kiwi kids' - Stanford, conveniently ignoring that National introduced National Standards, 11. S. Willis to Simeon SW 7, SB 4 Is the electricity market broken? 'You cancelled a major power program and you haven't replaced it' - Gary 'We have an energy shortage ... we had a dry hydrological year' - Simeon Gentailers: $512 million in profit over the last six weeks. More twaddle from Brownlee: 'useless lump of skin' - Gary 12. Marcroft to Jones JM 5, SJ 4 Patsy question. 'I will be drinking the proverbial before I support co-governance' - Jonesy. $101 million allocated to 42 flood resilience schemes, covering up to 60% of the cost.

'Fred Flinstone economics' - Jonesy. Taking a potshot at the gentailers.