Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is facing a grilling at Question Time in Parliament.
Asked why he was willing to wait until late April before stepping in on the school lunches programme, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said Associate Education Minister David Seymour was working "incredibly hard through some very challenging issues".
Labour leader Chris Hipkins asked why Luxon was willing to wait until Term 2 for the programme to be fixed given "the chaos David Seymour's caused ... to be fixed".
Luxon said the incident last week was unacceptable and Seymour had "fronted really clearly on that".
Hipkins asked what it would take for Luxon to step in "particularly given the one minister who actually seems to want to get it sorted out, Erica Stanford, is being ignored by David Seymour".
"This is a minister who's working incredibly hard through some very challenging issues to make sure that we get our food back to scratch, and to make sure that we deliver on time and in full," Luxon said.
Luxon earlier said it was "pretty lame-o" Wellington councils didn't submit a bid for a regional funding deal to be considered by the government.
Meanwhile, school lunch provider Libelle Group Auckland has gone into liquidation.
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