David Seymour

And I think what people forget is that's what we've overwhelmingly had for the last two and a half years.

In fact, we've been accused of putting too much legislation through Parliament.

You can't do that if you're not extremely organised.

Right now, the most important things that are happening is anti-money laundering law went through Parliament this year.

That's a huge thing.

It's the bane of so many people's existence, this AML rubbish that they have to put up with.

Nicole McKee's seriously simplifying that, got through Parliament this week.

90 million litres of diesel has come through.

And Laura McClure's deepfake porn bill.

uh nearly got all the way through the house uh got interrupted at the last minute but the significant thing is there every party's voting for it to protect kids from the effects of this awful you don't hear about it do you there's a lot of good stuff has happened where the government's just knuckled down got its work done two of those examples i might add were act mps

And so, look, people can dramatise if they want, but actually, for the most part, people want to get to the end of the week with diesel in the tank, and the government's doing a lot of stuff to help that happen.

Appreciate it, David Seymour, who is the Associate Education Minister with us this morning.

Not everyone is convinced this bill is necessary. The ACT Party voted against it. Here's David Seymour. This is not about slavery or exploitation within New Zealand's borders. That is something that is already illegal. It's in the Crimes Act. The Labour Inspectorate and the police can and do investigate, prosecute and put people in jail for it within New Zealand's borders.

Parliament just said you've got to produce a report, we can write one for you. So that was all that will happen. Another cost, more bureaucracy and very little change to anyone's lives. David Seymour saying basically that it's virtual signalling for our trading partners.

We need to get the government reopened.

We need to get this aviation system back.

And I implore our members of Congress to get together and get the government reopened so we can get back to normalcy.

It's painful when someone comes in and we have to say, I just don't have anything for you today.

We've never had to do that before, never.