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'Unhelpful': Minister Brooke van Velden responds to Hipkins' claims about the Covid inquiry

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 8 Jul 2025, 5:47pm
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Photo / Mark Mitchell

'Unhelpful': Minister Brooke van Velden responds to Hipkins' claims about the Covid inquiry

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 8 Jul 2025, 5:47pm

There's claims comments by Chris Hipkins on the Covid inquiry are 'unhelpful' and 'divisive'. 

The Labour leader said the terms of reference for the second phase - currently underway - provide a platform for conspiratorial views.

He pointed out they exclude decisions made when New Zealand First was in Government .

But Internal Affairs Minister, Brooke van Velden, told Ryan Bridge the terms were expanded so people felt listened to. 

"They wanted the inquiry to be fulsome and to find the truth so that when we have another pandemic, we have less division and we have a better response."

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