Labour leader Chris Hipkins. Photo: RNZ / Mark Papalii
Labour leader Chris Hipkins says his party will make changes to the coalition government's new Fast Track regime if elected next year, but will not completely scrap it.
Labour's Taranaki-King Country branch published a Facebook post last month which suggested the party would repeal the government's Fast Track legislation.
The post said that commitment was one of the biggest "takeaways" from a Hamilton East Labour dinner attended by Hipkins and MPs Kieran McAnulty and Arena Williams.
After enquiries from RNZ, the post was deleted.
Speaking on Morning Report, Hipkins said the party had yet to set out its intentions for the Fast Track regime.
"We haven't actually said that [we'll repeal it]," he said. "I've said that we'll make changes to it and we'll set those out before the election."
Hipkins said he believed there had been "way too much flip flopping" on resource management law and infrastructure priorities and Labour would not continue that.
"One of the things that I will do is make sure we don't simply stop projects that are underway because the previous government... started them," he said.
Speaking later at Parliament, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon told reporters the government was doing everything it could to get infrastructure projects up and running to help support the construction sector and wider economy.
"What we've done is got rid of a lot of the red tape by trying to crash through the system with the Fast Track legislation," he said.
"We're moving everything we can: planning laws, accelerating investment in infrastructure, real projects happening."
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