ACT Condemns Labour Arrogance
Wednesday, 10 December 2003, 11:55 am
Press Release: ACT New Zealand
Wednesday 10 Dec 2003
Heather Roy Press Releases -- Health
ACT New
Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today expressed
frustration over Labour's arrogance in announcing the
imminent signing of the trans-Tasman therapeutic goods
joint agency agreement to include dietary supplements and
complementary medicines before the Select Committee
inquiry report was even tabled in Parliament.
"The
strength of feeling amongst my Health Select Committee
colleagues - excluding the Labour members - has been
shown by the cross party press conference held at 10am
today.
"ACT, National, New Zealand First, the Greens
and United Future all favour mutual recognition - as
opposed to harmonisation in the regulation of dietary
supplements.
"We had thought that the committee's
Labour members, who voted in favour of the report, also
agreed with this strategy - it is obvious, however, that
they had been stringing the rest of the committee along
while the report was being written.
"Labour obviously
had no intention of taking the inquiry findings into
account. Fifteen months of work, and huge input from the
dietary supplement industry, is being completely ignored.
Labour is showing its absolute contempt for the Select
Committee process," Mrs Roy said.
ENDS
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information visit ACT online at
www.act.org.nz or
contact the ACT Parliamentary Office at
[email protected].
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