Simeon Brown
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343 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 29 Jul
Simeon Brown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think it's frankly ridiculous that people who made significant decisions impacting people's lives, their health, their economy, did not front up.
They made significant decisions and also spent huge amounts of money.
$60 billion was spent responding to the pandemic.
The commission found around half of that didn't relate to the core response and ultimately led to the inflationary impacts we're still feeling today.
Well, the commission was established under the previous government.
We did make some changes.
Well, ultimately, the commission also makes decisions.
All I'm saying is the Minister of Health and given the job to respond, what I've seen and what the government is responding with is saying,
when it comes to the approach a future government should take, timely, temporary, targeted when it comes to spending money, transparency, so that we can have trust and confidence in the response.
And ultimately, we're not going to be setting up a separate piece of pandemic legislation.
If we're going to make any changes, it should just be looking what's already there and making improvements if needed.
No, it's been an important process.
I'm responding as the Minister of Health around how decisions should be made in the future.
We're putting in place a cabinet circular, which will be clear around how decisions should be, any advice should be released.
Ultimately, governments of the day will make decisions in terms of how they may wish to respond, but there should be accountability.
And that's the expectation we're setting.
Health Minister Simeon Brown.
Look, no one said it was going to be easy to turn around the results in our health system, which went backwards badly under the previous government, but we are making good progress.
I think particularly on elective surgeries where
There's been a big uplift not only in the number of people being treated within four months, but actually the number of total surgeries delivered this quarter compared to the previous quarter last year, a 5.5% increase in the amount of surgeries delivered.
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