Video: Luxon pays visit to Hawke's Bay, says Government aims to get economy working again
The Prime Minister has promised Hawke’s Bay that his government aims to get the economy working properly again.
During a day visit to the region in which he visited local businesses and later went to the final day of Horse of the Year, Christopher Luxon said the broad economic environment had been tough for businesses across the country.
“We have seen businesses fail for the last two years off the back of rising inflation, high interest costs and a slowing economy. What I'm fixated on in our government is to make sure that we can actually get our economy growing again and make sure that we lower the cost of living for people.”
“I've just come from Nourished for Nil this morning again, which I visited before. And again, we have record numbers of low and middle income working New Zealanders actually using food banks up and down this country. So our problem or our opportunity is actually we have to build back a much bigger, stronger economy. Because then we actually get the public services that we deserve, then we become a richer country. Then we can pay people more, then we can actually get public services that we so desperately want to see in this country.”
Speaking to media after visiting Red Phase Technologies in Napier this morning, Luxon said they had to focus on the economic management.
“When you're seeing economic mismanagement and economic vandalism on the scale that we've seen in the last six years, and I'm sorry to keep talking about it, but it is exceptionally unacceptable what has actually happened. We have lost six years, and so we are now trying to play catch up, and we've got to get a lot of things right in our economic management, our fiscal management, and our government departments and our government spending so that we can actually get this country moving forward.”
