Green MP Ricardo Menéndez March claims he received no preferential treatment on his return to New Zealand from a trip to Mexico and a visit to his dying stepmother and sick father. But having applied for an emergency exemption to aid his travels through managed isolation, as part of that process, how many employers would receive a phone call from the chief executive of MBIE? Rosa Woods/Stuff Greens co-leader James Shaw said colleague Ricardo Menéndez March should not receive preferential treatment. Some of those people have been denied access to dying family members and even funerals because of government restrictions in the fight to contain the pandemic. Two sisters took a similar route when they were denied the opportunity to leave quarantine to visit their dying mother.

Source: Stuff February 11, 2021 15:56 UTC