The Government's putting product labelling regulations under the microscope in another attack on red tape.
The Ministry for Regulation's reviewing labelling standards, and expects to be finished by the end of the year.
Newstalk ZB political editor Jason Walls says Minister for Regulation David Seymour has pointed out the compliance standards companies are subject to - and he's looking to make some changes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And Jason Wall's New storage zb's political leaders is with us.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hello, Jason, good afternoon. Howther what is the.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Red tape that David Seymore's cutting?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now, well, i'll tell you what. This is a very
David Seymour slash Heather Duples clan thing because it seems
like you guys are the only two people in the
country that are interested in this apart from me, So
I'm glad that you picked up on this. New Zealand's
labeling regime is driving up prices and limiting wage growth.
That's according to David Seymour. He also says New Zealand's
(00:26):
product labeling requirements are made up of thirty different codes,
standards and regulations, and this, he says, is leading to
costs for businesses to label their products to comply with
New Zealand export standards. So what's he doing. Well, he's
saying that exports export is facing extra compliance costs preparing
products for overseas markets, while consumers miss out on the
(00:48):
global goods because of importers are facing different laboring or
labeling requirements, and he's saying that he's going to make
some changes. Businesses like chemist warehouses have been they've he says,
they have been a game changer for KIWIS purchasing cheaper
pharmaceutical products. However, they tied up in excessive labeling requirements,
(01:08):
adding costs to their operations. So David Seymour and he's
been moving today with Scott Simpson as well to make
some various different changes on those to change the regulations.
So this all comes back to David Seymour. He's been
fighting regulations, he's been fighting red tape, and this is
just kind of another one on the wrong of the
ladders that David Seymour has been trying to get through
across the line.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
So actually said what he wants to take out of
the labels will change about the labels.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well, I'll tell you what, I've been reading through this
all day, and I've been a little bit kind of
almost confused about it and in the way that I
would love to give you a little bit more information
about it, but I actually it's a little bit complex
in this stage. And it looks like He says that
the review is expected to be completed by December twenty
twenty five, so we've got a couple more months to
wait for this one.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
But the reason I'm asking you this question is because
when I looked at it, it looked to me completely
devoid of detail.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Here.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It was basically saying, this is what we're gonna do.
We can't tell you what we're gonna do because we're
gonna have a look at what we're gonna do. In
which case, why are you announcing it? Only announce it
when you actually know what you're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, that was my entire thought about it as well,
which was I thought, like, you know, we can have
a chat about it this afternoon, but I was kind
of confused about what you wanted to know about it
because I didn't have any more information about.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
What We're exactly the same like tell me if I'm wrong,
please and being unfair, But are we not in exactly
the same situation with this labeling announcement as we were
last week? Was Brook van Velden's scaffolding announcement in that
they're both announcing nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, I mean, this is exactly what I thought on
this whole thing, and this is why when I read
it and we were talking about it this morning with
my news team, was like, well do we even cover
this because I don't know what this is. I mean,
I read I read you through basically what was on
the press release, right, and I don't know what happens
next apart from he's thinking about doing some things in
December twenty twenty five. And this is what David Seymour
(02:51):
kind of has to worry about at the stage in
his tenure as Deputy Prime Minister. It's just announcing things,
saying we're going to get them across the line at
some point, but just giving you drip feeding bits of
information here and there.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
But I don't think this is isolated to David Seymour.
I'm seeing this across across the coalition government actually, and
a particularly national in Act that they keep on renounce
They announce little things, and then they re announce them,
and then they re announce them, and they re announcement
every point of the process. Now, is this not exactly
the same thing that we got annoyed with with j
Justin Dada.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
The old announcing of announcing, the announcement of announcement. Yeah,
and I absolutely think it is. And I think that
they need to be worried about falling into the same
trap because, as you did, I looked at this press
release and I was just reading through the sort of
the highlights there and I was like, there's nothing in
this that a regular New Zealand who is reading the
news needs to actually know about. This isn't something that
(03:41):
people need to know about. And I think David Seymour
and the ACT Party and the government as a wider
institution needs to worry about these things because people will
cotton onto the fact that just a press release alone
it doesn't mean you're doing something.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, thank you, Okay, So how is the Maori Party
and ACT teaming up?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
This is good because so it's a it's an interesting
segue going for something that means essentially nothing to something
that is actually a little bit more grounded in reality.
So I've been on about this for quite some time.
Laura McClure, who is an ACT Party MP, she submitted
a member's mill, a member's bill to essentially outlaw or
to make it illegal to have non consensual AI porn
(04:19):
been made of a people across the country and she
has been she put this in the members bill and
she's been really wanting to get it across the line.
Of course, you and I know that a member's bill
means absolutely nothing unless it's drawn from the Biscuit tin. However,
there is a process where you can essentially get it
out of the biscuit tin and put it on the
(04:40):
government's agenda if you get enough people across the line
who are non executive members of Parliament, that is, non ministers.
Now ACT have actually got the most unlikely of partners
across the line. Tea Party Mardy Hannah Rapti Mighty Clarke
is working with Laura McClure to get this bill out
of the biscuit tin and onto the government's agenda. Now
(05:01):
we're not quite there yet. We need quite a few
more MPs to sign up to this, but this is
I mean, you don't see ACT and T Party Marty
getting along this well very often at all at Parliament,
in Parliament full stop. So I think this is a
really good start for a bill that I think is
genuinely quite a good piece of legislation. Paul Goldsmith I've
talked to him about this in the past and he
(05:23):
says that there are elements of the current legislation that
which do dabble in helping this sort of AI porn
issue to be to be something that's dealt with from
the police, but Laura McClure has said that it actually
doesn't quite get there, so we'll wait and see where
this gets to. But I think that the fact that
you've got Act and Tea Party Marty joining sides is
(05:44):
a pretty good indication to the rest of Parliament.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
All Right, Jason, thanks very much, Jason Woolves News Talks,
thereb's political letters apt For more from Hither Duplassy Allen Drive.
Listen live to News Talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
And Jason Wall's New storage zb's political leaders is with us.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Hello, Jason, good afternoon. Howther what is the.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Red tape that David Seymore's cutting?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Now, well, i'll tell you what. This is a very
David Seymour slash Heather Duples clan thing because it seems
like you guys are the only two people in the
country that are interested in this apart from me, So
I'm glad that you picked up on this. New Zealand's
labeling regime is driving up prices and limiting wage growth.
That's according to David Seymour. He also says New Zealand's
(00:26):
product labeling requirements are made up of thirty different codes,
standards and regulations, and this, he says, is leading to
costs for businesses to label their products to comply with
New Zealand export standards. So what's he doing. Well, he's
saying that exports export is facing extra compliance costs preparing
products for overseas markets, while consumers miss out on the
(00:48):
global goods because of importers are facing different laboring or
labeling requirements, and he's saying that he's going to make
some changes. Businesses like chemist warehouses have been they've he says,
they have been a game changer for KIWIS purchasing cheaper
pharmaceutical products. However, they tied up in excessive labeling requirements,
(01:08):
adding costs to their operations. So David Seymour and he's
been moving today with Scott Simpson as well to make
some various different changes on those to change the regulations.
So this all comes back to David Seymour. He's been
fighting regulations, he's been fighting red tape, and this is
just kind of another one on the wrong of the
ladders that David Seymour has been trying to get through
across the line.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
So actually said what he wants to take out of
the labels will change about the labels.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well, I'll tell you what, I've been reading through this
all day, and I've been a little bit kind of
almost confused about it and in the way that I
would love to give you a little bit more information
about it, but I actually it's a little bit complex
in this stage. And it looks like He says that
the review is expected to be completed by December twenty
twenty five, so we've got a couple more months to
wait for this one.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
But the reason I'm asking you this question is because
when I looked at it, it looked to me completely
devoid of detail.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Here.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
It was basically saying, this is what we're gonna do.
We can't tell you what we're gonna do because we're
gonna have a look at what we're gonna do. In
which case, why are you announcing it? Only announce it
when you actually know what you're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, that was my entire thought about it as well,
which was I thought, like, you know, we can have
a chat about it this afternoon, but I was kind
of confused about what you wanted to know about it
because I didn't have any more information about.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
What We're exactly the same like tell me if I'm wrong,
please and being unfair, But are we not in exactly
the same situation with this labeling announcement as we were
last week? Was Brook van Velden's scaffolding announcement in that
they're both announcing nothing.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, I mean, this is exactly what I thought on
this whole thing, and this is why when I read
it and we were talking about it this morning with
my news team, was like, well do we even cover
this because I don't know what this is. I mean,
I read I read you through basically what was on
the press release, right, and I don't know what happens
next apart from he's thinking about doing some things in
December twenty twenty five. And this is what David Seymour
(02:51):
kind of has to worry about at the stage in
his tenure as Deputy Prime Minister. It's just announcing things,
saying we're going to get them across the line at
some point, but just giving you drip feeding bits of
information here and there.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
But I don't think this is isolated to David Seymour.
I'm seeing this across across the coalition government actually, and
a particularly national in Act that they keep on renounce
They announce little things, and then they re announce them,
and then they re announce them, and they re announcement
every point of the process. Now, is this not exactly
the same thing that we got annoyed with with j
Justin Dada.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
The old announcing of announcing, the announcement of announcement. Yeah,
and I absolutely think it is. And I think that
they need to be worried about falling into the same
trap because, as you did, I looked at this press
release and I was just reading through the sort of
the highlights there and I was like, there's nothing in
this that a regular New Zealand who is reading the
news needs to actually know about. This isn't something that
(03:41):
people need to know about. And I think David Seymour
and the ACT Party and the government as a wider
institution needs to worry about these things because people will
cotton onto the fact that just a press release alone
it doesn't mean you're doing something.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, thank you, Okay, So how is the Maori Party
and ACT teaming up?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
This is good because so it's a it's an interesting
segue going for something that means essentially nothing to something
that is actually a little bit more grounded in reality.
So I've been on about this for quite some time.
Laura McClure, who is an ACT Party MP, she submitted
a member's mill, a member's bill to essentially outlaw or
to make it illegal to have non consensual AI porn
(04:19):
been made of a people across the country and she
has been she put this in the members bill and
she's been really wanting to get it across the line.
Of course, you and I know that a member's bill
means absolutely nothing unless it's drawn from the Biscuit tin. However,
there is a process where you can essentially get it
out of the biscuit tin and put it on the
(04:40):
government's agenda if you get enough people across the line
who are non executive members of Parliament, that is, non ministers.
Now ACT have actually got the most unlikely of partners
across the line. Tea Party Mardy Hannah Rapti Mighty Clarke
is working with Laura McClure to get this bill out
of the biscuit tin and onto the government's agenda. Now
(05:01):
we're not quite there yet. We need quite a few
more MPs to sign up to this, but this is
I mean, you don't see ACT and T Party Marty
getting along this well very often at all at Parliament,
in Parliament full stop. So I think this is a
really good start for a bill that I think is
genuinely quite a good piece of legislation. Paul Goldsmith I've
talked to him about this in the past and he
(05:23):
says that there are elements of the current legislation that
which do dabble in helping this sort of AI porn
issue to be to be something that's dealt with from
the police, but Laura McClure has said that it actually
doesn't quite get there, so we'll wait and see where
this gets to. But I think that the fact that
you've got Act and Tea Party Marty joining sides is
(05:44):
a pretty good indication to the rest of Parliament.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
All Right, Jason, thanks very much, Jason Woolves News Talks,
thereb's political letters apt For more from Hither Duplassy Allen Drive.
Listen live to News Talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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