ACT Condemns Labour Arrogance
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.
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act@parliament.govt.nz.