Tim Dower: We wouldn't be able to get away with MIQ again

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jun 21, 2022 · 2m

MIQ.

You'll have heard calls from the Opposition for an apology to some of the New Zealanders who were locked out of the country at the height of the pandemic.

And especially pregnant women who couldn't get home to have their babies here.

Newstalk ZB is this morning was able to reveal that conversations were had way back in April 2020 about what to do with pregnant women, but nothing was done.

This doesn't affect a huge number of people; about 250 made emergency MIQ requests.

The bigger issue that MBIE is currently working through is how we operated managed isolation as a whole and how we'd…