The Red Cross is the largest humanitarian organisation in the world. The latest report from them shows that $16 million has been given to overseas workers etc, stranded in New Zealand due to Covid-19.

Does not the Government have a responsibility to take care of this, when they can print hundreds of millions for some very dodgy causes?

One other point - do we really need to have 12,000 volunteer firemen, not more full time staff? Someone wants cheap labour using volunteers to save the government money, like St John Ambulance.

R Chamberlain, Otumoetai.