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Jacinda Ardern has confirmed Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters was pushing for more frequent use of masks in New Zealand as early as March - but has defended the Government's approach to those and the use of the military.
Peters last week broke ranks from his Coalition partner, revealing publicly that he had pushed for the army to be called in, masks to be worn and independent oversight of the Covid response, two days before New Zealand's first lockdown in March.
Ardern told Mike Hosking Peters had been a "constant advocate on masks".
She said he had argued for a "long time" for masks on transport such as planes. "We were also in lockdown in March so there were things that were different about the time and place when those suggestions were made.
"On things like military use, there was never any disagreement over that - you can see that in our response. We have used the military.
"In that statement there's an assumption they could have been used more broadly. My view is we used the capacity we have within the military - we have really stretched our use particularly in managed isolation."
More importantly, Ardern told Hosking, "it's election time".
"Even though we have parties who are members of the Government who are members of Cabinet, this is a period where we are going to see those parties drawing distinctions."