Simeon Brown
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439 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Simeon Brown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Delivering these services like the Waitakere Infusion Center at Waitakere Hospital is going to make a massive difference for patients.
And for many patients, that's going to be life changing and actually mean they can start their treatment sooner and have a much better response to their treatment.
Simon Brown, who's the health minister with us this morning.
If I had a child, God forbid, or a family member addicted to meth, and then I find out the people that sold them the meth are getting money to take them off meth, I honestly want to cry.
We can't send that message.
The full name of it is the Public Finance Prohibition on Providing Public Funds to Gangs Amendment Bill.
And essentially what this is aiming to do is to amend the Public Finance Act so that we don't allow the Crown or their agencies to
to provide funds directly or indirectly to gangs, basically.
And has that been a problem?
What's sort of prompted this?
It has, and, you know, I don't usually like to use the word loophole, but I will use it in this situation because there's been examples where public funds, and so that's the pool of money that is available for New Zealanders, have been given in a form of a fund or a grant specifically
to different organisations that have some affiliations or are affiliated directly to gangs.
The last time we saw that happening glaringly was in 2021 under the former Labor government.
And rightfully so, a lot of people got very upset about that.
$2.75 million was given through a government agency to a program administered by the mongrel mob.
So the Honourable Simeon Brown, when he was still a member of Parliament, not a minister, put together this members' bill because he thought enough is enough.
And I inherited it when he became a minister.
And I thought, yep, this resonates with me a lot.
And so it's in my name I'm shepherding this bill.
I'm mindful that you use the word angry.
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