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Bloated executive gets new govt off to bad start
25 October 2017
Bloated executive gets new govt off to bad start
Today’s announcement that there
will be 31 ministers, ministers outside Cabinet and
under-secretaries in the new executive shows the incoming
government intends to use taxpayer money to solve political
problems, National Party Leader Bill English says.
“There is no justification for such a bloated executive. National and its partners have run effective governments for nine years with no more than 28 ministers and under-secretaries.
“Even the big-spending Helen Clark government never had more than a 28 member executive,” Mr English says.
“This is simply a
make-work scheme for Labour, NZ First and Green
politicians.
“If the new government takes the same
approach with other areas of government spending, it will
not be long before Deputy Prime Minister-elect Winston
Peters’ gloomy prophecy of an economic decline becomes
true,” Mr English says.
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