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![]() ![]() There has been widespread support for that move out there in the community. ![]() This party and this Government campaigned on moving resources from the back office to the front office. The 18 people who were involved in awareness of child abuse will be replaced by 21 people who will act on prevention of child abuse. His deputy asked that question yesterday. Hon JOHN KEY: As is so often the case with the Leader of the Opposition, he was a day late in asking a question. ![]() Hon Phil Goff: Is it part of the Government’s plan to mitigate rising unemployment by sacking hundreds of workers in the public sector, including the sacking yesterday of 18 community social workers involved in early intervention, detection, and prevention of child abuse, which child advocates have said has put children’s lives at risk? This is a Government that is working hard for the people of New Zealand. There is the 9-day working fortnight, the ReStart programme, lifting productivity-and there will be a lot more to come. The Resource Management Act will be changed under this Government. There have been changes to legislation and regulations that have seen 90-day probationary periods and a balanced response to climate change. Of course, the $323 million that went into the home insulation fund budget delivered a credit upgrade, not a downgrade, which is what we would have got from Labour. Hon JOHN KEY: Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. I could not hear what the Prime Minister was saying, so I ask that interjections be a little more reasonable. I admit that my ears are not functioning properly at the moment, and I apologise to the House for that. Mr SPEAKER: The member has gone quite far enough. I think those members are surprised that the Prime Minister does have a plan, and I am interested. I have not heard anything from the first sentence on, given the barracking from the party that asked the question. Presumably, the House is interested in the answer. I do not like to interrupt, but this is the first question of the day, which has been put down on notice. Hon Rodney Hide: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. There will be $30 billion worth of borrowing to take the rough edges off the recession, $500 million for infrastructure, $500 million going to the small to medium sized enterprise sector. Parts of those plans have already been outlined. Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister) : I am glad that the member asked me that question, actually, because there is a wide-ranging plan on this side of the House to take the sharpest edges off the recession. Prime Minister: What is the plan he said yesterday he has to mitigate rising unemployment and why, after 7 months, has he still not announced it? Hon PHIL GOFF (Leader of the Opposition) to the ![]()
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