Kate Hawkesby: How deep is the prezzy card pot?

I'm just wondering if there's a big box of prezzy cards stashed somewhere inside the Beehive, or somewhere all the bureaucrats can go, to just bundle up endless prezzy cards to hand out to people.  

In the latest prezzy card scandal —and let's not forget there've been a few— 'defendants on serious charges', it was reported, got $75 dollar prezzy cards to attend meetings. These were meetings in Hawke's Bay at the courts, and it was reportedly to ‘share ideas and court experiences.'’ 

Point of Order: Discriminatory health services

Hipkins plays the “racism” card to duck question about who lives in cities and in rural areas

Remember when Act’s deputy leader, Brooke van Velden, gave the Government’s Willow-Jean Prime some discomforting moments at Question Time in Parliament?

Van Velden questioned the Associate Health Minister about pregnant mothers being given $50 Prezzy cards simply for turning up to pregnancy assessments, and then – after the child is born – for the six-week assessment.

But wait. Not all pregnant mothers will be treated to Prezzy cards – they are doled out only to women who identify as Māori.