The 49 prioritised actions announced this afternoon include:
- Repeal the Clean Car Discount scheme by December 31, 2023.
- Ban the use of cell phones in schools.
- Introduce legislation to remove the Auckland Fuel Tax.
- Repeal Fair Pay Agreement legislation.
- Stop "blanket speed limit reductions" and start work on replacing the Land Transport Rule: Setting of Speed Limits 2022.
- Stop central government work on the Auckland Light Rail project.
- Start work to improve the quality of regulation.
- Introduce legislation to repeal the Water Services Entities Act 2022, also known as the Three Waters reforms
- Introduce legislation to ban gang patches, stop gang members gathering in public, and stop known gang offenders from communicating with one another.
- Give police greater powers to search gang members for firearms and make gang membership an aggravating factor at sentencing.
- Introduce legislation to disestablish the Māori Health Authority.
- Begin work to repeal the Therapeutics Products Act 2023
- Allow the sale of cold medication containing pseudoephedrine
- Require primary and intermediate schools to teach an hour of reading, writing and maths per day starting in 2024.
- Begin disestablishing Te Pukenga.
- Stop all work on He Puapua.
- Stop work on the Income Insurance Scheme.
- Stop work on Industry Transformation Plans.
- Stop work on the Lake Onslow pumped hydro scheme.
- Begin efforts to double renewable energy production, including a National Policy Statement on Renewable Electricity Generation.
- Withdraw central government from Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM).
- Meet with councils and communities to establish regional requirements for recovery from Cyclone Gabrielle and other recent major flooding events.
- Make any additional Orders in Council needed to speed up cyclone and flood recovery efforts.
- Start reducing public sector expenditure, including consultant and contractor expenditure.
- Introduce legislation to narrow the Reserve Bank’s mandate to price stability.
- Cancel fuel tax hikes.
- Begin work on a new Government Policy Statement reflecting the new Roads of National Significance and new public transport priorities.
- Introduce legislation to restore 90-day trial periods for all businesses.
- Begin work on a National Infrastructure Agency.
- Repeal the Spatial Planning and Natural and Built Environment Act and introduce a fast-track consenting regime.
- Begin to cease implementation of new Significant Natural Areas and seek advice on the operation of the areas.
- Take policy decisions to amend the Overseas Investment Act 2005 to make it easier for build-to-rent housing to be developed in New Zealand.
- Begin work to enable more houses to be built, by implementing the National Party's Going for Housing Growth policy and making the Medium Density Residential Standards optional for councils.
- Abolish the previous Labour government’s prisoner reduction target.
- Stop taxpayer funding for section 27 cultural reports.
- Introduce legislation to extend eligibility to offence-based rehabilitation programmes to remand prisoners.
- Begin work to crack down on serious youth offending.
- Enable more virtual participation in court proceedings.
- Begin to repeal and replace Part 6 of the Arms Act 1983 relating to clubs and ranges.
- Improve security for the health workforce in hospital emergency departments.
- Sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Waikato University to progress a third medical school.
- By December 1, lodge a reservation against adopting amendments to World Health Organisation health regulations to allow the Government to consider these against a “national interest test”.
- Appoint an Expert Group to redesign the English and maths curricula for primary school students.
- Begin work on delivering better public services and strengthening democracy.
- Set five major targets for health system, including for wait times and cancer treatment.
- Take first steps to extend free breast cancer screening to those aged up to 74.
- Repeal amendments to the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Act 1990 and regulations.
- Establish a priority one category on the social housing waitlist to move families out of emergency housing into permanent homes more quickly.
- Commission an independent review into Kāinga Ora’s financial situation, procurement, and asset management.