PM's Post-Cabinet Press Conference, 2 December 2019: Once more, the Breach
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's began her weekly post-cabinet press conference by discussing schools' responses to the
school property funding announced at the Labour Party conference this weekend.
She was joined by Minister of Police Stuart Nash who made a statement regarding the private data breach on the police
gun buyback website. Nash suggested the problem would relate to access granted to firearms dealers on the website. Nash
and Ardern then answered questions about this issue and its implications for the police, the buyback scheme, and the
proposed gun registry, as well as the number of recent private data breaches. Nash also discussed other recent police
issues.
Ardern also answered questions on Crown claims of legal privilege in the abuse in care inquiry, decisions on merging RNZ
and TVNZ and the possibility of moving the Auckland port, the measles outbreak in Samoa, the number of serious threats
against MPs, the government's promised boost to infrastruture spending and its mplications for budget responsibility
rules, her confidence in the Minister of Police, the phrase "we're doing this", pricing argicultural emissions, and
Greenpeace's OMV protests.