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Speaker 1: Yes, COVID inquiry questioned six the House of Parliament Question

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Speaker 1: Time yesterday. Look it up, Winston Peters to Simeon Brown,

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Speaker 1: the mandate for twelve to seventeen year olds and the

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Speaker 1: double dose of the vaccine. Have a look at what

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Speaker 1: happened to fascinating exchange Tuesday, Chris Sipkinzasha Viral denied the

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Speaker 1: concerns raised by the Ministry of Health ever reached their desk.

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Speaker 1: Peter's presented evidence it did, and even after it did,

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Speaker 1: it took a very long time for anything to be

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Speaker 1: done about it. So a couple of issues out of that. Firstly,

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Speaker 1: it is potentially a misleading of the House, a very

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Speaker 1: serious issue. More importantly, it's a misleading of us. Now

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Speaker 1: there's little more egregious for a number of New Zealanders

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Speaker 1: out of the COVID experience than the vaccine issue. Sadly,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the noise around it was tinhat material

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Speaker 1: driven by Ouiji board thinking, but some of it not much,

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Speaker 1: but some of it was real. The risks became a

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Speaker 1: lightning rot. All vaccines carry risk, of course, but concerns

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Speaker 1: were raised about rush development and then making that risk

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Speaker 1: higher mandating of that rush development into the arms of

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Speaker 1: New Zealanders. Also making this complicated is the line between

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Speaker 1: politics and health, politics and expertise. Now, the government has

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Speaker 1: a right to ignore advice, they do it all the time,

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Speaker 1: but can you ignore health advice in area that you

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Speaker 1: are not expert in? Now? Part of what Peter's raised

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Speaker 1: that may well be or have a long determ issue

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Speaker 1: is legal. Is there a case to be heard whereby

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Speaker 1: a government knew of a problem around a vaccine and

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Speaker 1: yet did nothing with that knowledge until later meantime, any

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Speaker 1: number of young people were exposed to a risk that

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Speaker 1: they didn't have to be associated with The stance is

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Speaker 1: the broader but not legal aspect of this. If that

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Speaker 1: is the sort of approach a government can take, then

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Speaker 1: how does that dovetail with the overarching view that governments

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Speaker 1: want vaccine rates in the high nineties? In other words,

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Speaker 1: they want public trust. A lot of the COVID response

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Speaker 1: and report, of course, is about interpretation and ideology. This

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Speaker 1: appears much more specific, worrying, and potentially dishonest. So watch

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