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Last week, health minister Simeon Brown announced the government’s infrastructure plan for rebuilding hospitals.

The plan involves a $20 billion investment into hospitals across the motu, which Simeon Brown has said will upgrade emergency departments and will improve delivery timeframes.

In that same week, the government’s recent defence capability plan, which involved a $12 billion increase in funding to the New Zealand Defence Force, downgraded climate change as a priority for the NZDF

And, earlier this week, Primate Minister Christopher Luxon announced that New Zealand would be extending its military assistance to Ukraine until 2026.

For their weekly catchup with the Green Party, Oto spoke to Greens MP Ricardo Menendez-March for the party’s take on all of these issues.

Yesterday the debate in the privileges committee regarding the suspension of Te Pāti Māori MPs Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi was adjourned until after the upcoming budget announcement.

The Privileges Committee Report and recommended punishments for the three Te Pāti Māori MPs were issued last week for the Haka they performed during a parliamentary session in November 2024 in opposition to the ACT party’s Treaty Principles Bill.

In that same week, the Green party recently issued a call to the government to scrap the Regulatory Standards Bill after the Waitangi Tribunal found that the Bill breaches the Crown’s Tiriti o Waitangi obligations.

And the government recently passed the Social Security Amendment Bill, which the government says would support people into employment and off benefits, however, opponents of the bill have said it could harm beneficiaries and lower income New Zealanders.

For our weekly catch up with the Green Party, Oto spoke to MP Ricardo Menendez-March about all of these issues.

Recent statistics on inflation published earlier this week showed that consumer prices had risen by 2.7% in the last 12 months to June.

Stats NZ identified the main contributor to inflation as local authority rates and payments, which were up 12.2%.

Earlier this week, the Green party recently called on the government to lower the minimum voting age to 16, which was in response to a move by the UK government last week, where they announced their plans to lower the voting age to 16 in time for their next general election.

And the most recent figures from the Ministry of Social Development were published which showed that benefit sanctions have increased by 27% compared to last year, with the number of people receiving the benefit also increasing by 6.6%.

For our weekly catchup with the Green party, Oto spoke with MP Ricardo Menendez-March to get the party’s take on all of these issues.

Last week, Defence Minister Judith Collins and Foreign Minister Winston Peters revealed plans to purchase almost $3 billion worth of US aircraft to replace the Defence Force's ageing 757s.

The five MH-60R Seahawk helicopters involved in the purchase, manufactured by Lockheed Martin, would be procured directly through the United States' Foreign Military Sales programme.

This week, a legal challenge against the disestablishment of Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori Health Authority, will be heard in the High Court in Wellington.

The case will be argued on the grounds that the government breached the Treaty of Waitangi and the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act when making the decision to disestablish the Māori Health Authority.

And the Green party recently launched a petition calling on the government to restore adequate funding to Polytechnics and to reverse cuts to vocational education and training.

For our weekly catchup with the Green Party, Oto spoke with MP Ricardo Menendez-March to get the party’s take on all of these issues.