Collins critical

Wellington: National leader Judith Collins has taken aim at the ‘‘lazy Government’’ which she says is allowing MPs to take two months off over summer.

The House rises on December 9 and starts sitting again on February 9. ‘‘It’s amazingly strange. It does sound awfully like a lazy Government,’’ she said yesterday.

However, National had a say in the length of the recess period. The sitting timetable is set by a crossparty group of MPs called the business committee.

It is understood there was no pushback from National MPs on that committee over the length of the summer break. — The New Zealand Herald