Politics / Covid 19

Watch live: Epidemic Response Committee discusses legislation

12:28 pm on 8 May 2020

The Epidemic Response Committee is today discussing legislation on how businesses, local government, and others manage the response to Covid-19.

Watch the meeting live here:

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday announced the alert level 2 rules, but a decision about when we move there won't be made until Monday.

Today the committee is looking at the Covid-19 Response (Further Management Measures) Legislation Bill.

Representatives from BusinessNZ, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei Trust, New Zealand Law Society, Commerce Commission, New Zealand Society of Local Government Managers, Restructuring and Insolvency & Turnaround Association New Zealand, Local Government Association and The Institute of Directors will all be speaking at the meeting.