Mitchell fuelled some of the speculation on Wednesday morning<\/a>, telling the Mike Hosking Breakfast on Newstalk ZB: “Paul Goldsmith and justice are doing a lot of work around that.<\/p>\n\u201cHe\u2019s got his advisory group that are bringing ideas forward and you\u2019ve got Ryan Hamilton\u2019s bill, which is in the biscuit tin, which is fully supported by caucus and the Prime Minister.\u201d <\/p>\n
National MP Ryan Hamilton\u2019s Member\u2019s Bill is in the ballot, which would give police the ability to move people on from an area if their presence was causing distress, disorder or a nuisance.<\/p>\n
As with most Member\u2019s Bills, it already has the support of the National caucus, which would include the four ministers charged with drawing up a Cabinet paper. <\/p>\n
If Goldsmith and his colleagues were to draft a proposal, it would need to go out to consultation with coalition partners Act and NZ First.<\/p>\n
Sources in these parties seemed unaware of a move-on order proposal, only hearing about it on Tuesday when Labour leader Chris Hipkins started probing Prime Minister Christopher Luxon about it in the House.<\/p>\n
If the two coalition partners agreed on the proposal, it could then be drafted into legislation and passed. However, it is not clear that they do.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems to be the Labour Party knows more about it than we do,\u201d Act leader David Seymour said on his way into the House on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou might have heard Chris Luxon, the Prime Minister, in Question Time yesterday say, \u2018look, we don\u2019t have any Cabinet discussion about this\u2019 \u2013 I certainly haven\u2019t heard any Cabinet discussion about this when I\u2019ve been there, which is all the time,\u201d Seymour said.<\/p>\n
When asked whether he would back such a proposal, Seymour sounded a note of scepticism.<\/p>\n
\u201cI ask the question, \u2018what happens next?\u2019 … if you ban homelessness, where do people actually go and that\u2019s why I said are you better to build homes, engage community housing providers and get people a place to go \u2013 that\u2019s what actually works,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Luxon told Parliament there had been \u201cno Cabinet decisions or discussion\u201d on the topic.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, he told reporters the Government was in discussion with \u201clots of different stakeholders\u201d in Auckland to improve the state of the city centre.<\/p>\n
\u201cMove-on orders would be one of the things that you\u2019d want to be considering. But obviously … you\u2019ve got to make sure that you\u2019ve got the right support structures in place to support people as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
A move-on order may still make it to Cabinet but it is likely to only be included in a package of homelessness measures and to be targeted mainly at anti-social behaviour, rather than rough sleeping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The policy hasn\u2019t been included in any Cabinet paper, which would most likely need to be agreed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23545,77486,23602,1060,3013,6727,1259,40570,29242,266,209,28450,42,9437,185,6721,43,5006,4762,38957,13109,17509,30606,40,38,41,39,6923],"class_list":["post-120332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accusing","tag-advisory","tag-amounts","tag-ban","tag-but","tag-cabinet","tag-community","tag-considering","tag-effective","tag-government","tag-group","tag-groups","tag-headlines","tag-homelessness","tag-is","tag-labour","tag-news","tag-not","tag-party","tag-recommends","tag-several","tag-so","tag-sure","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-what"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}