New ministry paying staff average salary of $150k despite public sector job cuts
The new Ministry for Regulation has more than 90 staff paid an average salary of more than $150,000, new figures reveal.
That is despite the coalition pledging to slash back-office spendingacross the public sector and attacking the former government for creating massive bureaucracies.
The anti-red tape department is overseen by ACT leader David Seymour, who secured its creation during coalition negotiations last year.
Figures obtained by the Green Party – and first reported by The Post – reveal a median salary at the agency of $154,500, well above the public service median of $84,800.
This is just hilarious isn’t it?
ACT’s gold plated red tape vanity project is less a Ministry and more a Palace!
You get the feeling the canteen has sushi served on naked Japanese models, for a small Government Freedom Party, why do they have such a bloated red tape Chateau?
The hypocrisy of this is remarkable.
Taking from the poor, penalising beneficiaries and cutting public services while gouging on public money for your favourite vanity project.
It’s remarkable the priorities isn’t it?
It’s like the Treaty Referendum Bill, if NZF and National have sworn not to allow it to advance, then why spend all that money needlessly?
The things they can afford for them vs the things they can afford for us are vastly different.
By the time you pull in an HR team, an IT team, a comms team, the executive support team, and the governance team, not to forget the finance team and the legal team, you begin to realize that 90 people probably isn’t going to be anywhere near enough.
Look for a 250 head count within 18 months.
Overheads kill most things, but they’re all “necessary”.
Then add office building, furniture ,company cars ,and consultants which are now called contractors and thats before a days work has been done .Oh and dont forget The stale sandwiches for lunch because there will be no lunch breaks allowed under the new employment laws .
Because highly qualified, policy analysts & lawyers don’t come cheap.
But going ahead with a referendum that gonna waste money because his coalitions weren’t going to support his party bill to the second reading aint cheap either grow a fucken brain rat.
There is always money for certain things, it seems like magic until you realize that money doesn’t actually exist & is merely a construct that can be created at will.
That’s what the hungry lady who shoplifted food at the supermarket told the police but was charged anyway.
She obviously wasn’t gifted with the magical powers to create money out of thin air, and wasn’t stealing big enough for it to be “legal”.
Lawyers are the most overpaid, overcharging, overated, no consequences, no liability, professions out there.
And a lot of the time they don’t abide by, or stick to, the law…perfect players for the ACT Party.
And much of their work can be done better by AI, a pleasing thought for the future.
yep imagine how many lawyers this idiot is going to need over the next couple of years .We may need to import an extra thousand just for davids use .
Another sensible move by David Seymour.
Seymour who?
The one who receives so much attention on this site.Are you unable to read.
Obviously has you concerned.
The one who Bob the idiot gives so much attention to on this site. Bob can’t construct a sentence because of his illiteracy but given he’s 8 years old we can forgive him for that.
Obviously, no one is concerned with National’s puppet and his separatist racist policies..
ouch! Hahaha
why not? they all spout thge same old neo-lib failed horseshit….get 10 in a room and try to spot an original idea….
I suspect it will become the Ministry of Silly Walks with its own Sir Humphrey.
Should be getting high quality results and outcomes from this Department with the Humungous Salaries that are being paid, Seymour would have head hunted the best people in the NZ Business Sector ????
Seymour will have shoulder tapped those mates who have completed the Atlas 101 course as he has done, The blatant Mafia network is astounding. Media subservience is equally astounding. Trump is a rank amateur at fraud politics compared to Seymour.
The salaries are less than half the worry. What is this new ministry for silly walks paying consultants? Seymour needs to front up. His credibility is zero.
He doesnt use consultants this government uses the same people but they are now called contractors
Should be getting high quality results and outcomes from this Department with the Humungous Salaries that are being paid, Seymour would have head hunted the best people in the NZ Business Sector ????
Business sector to run the regulations body…OH MY FUCKING GOD!!
90 plus people to replace 20 what a fucken joke Seymour is .Henry is so right .At least some of the people that were on 84k a year have a new job at twice the pay Willis will be pissing her new green suit.
Highly paid job creation program slush fund for Act party functionaries, Atlas trained government infiltrators and assorted born to rule mates.
Nice.
The smirking twat from Epsom really is a pest. “Incel Dave” reduces school lunches down to dried out sandwiches rather than nutritious hot meals–and be clear he really wants to end them completely–and…creates an overpaid circus to organise further cuts. Regulation Ministry? what the…
PSA should be taking direct action right now with 7000 sacked so far, as should the rest of us in support of Ambulance Officers, defunded NGO workers, union members at Winstones etc.
The punk without the steam seymour has the helmet in anticipation of a raucous time in an S&M dungeon with Big Bad Daddy douglas. His rat face should be looking through bars and not pink, frilly little cocktail bars neither.
He really is taking New Zealanders for fools isn’t he. This government is awful,Luxon is weak as piss, Winston is nothing but a grumpy old man goodness knows what he is saying overseas because we never find out, I think he is on a junket of a lifetime at the taxpayers expense. Seymour is a racist and a charlatan, what on earth is this most expensive ministry going to do. How can Willis crow about wasteful spending, yes we are ALL absolute fools for putting up with this load of shit aided and abetted by media complacency and Herald fan girls and boys
We have got an English Skinhead, an Italian/Scottish Maaori and an English Maaori, who are not practicing Maaori’s, running the Country for their Wealthy M8’s IMHO ???
Don’t worry the Chief Kahuna is the one who fucked up Oranga Tamariki .
She’ll fuck this one up and it’ll be taken over by Simian Brown.
Was he not slagging her when she was in her last job .Now he gives her the top job in his money wasting dept .No doubt she will be using her white supremecy to bleach all her staff .Shows how shallow the pool has become when she is the best he can dredge up
The phrase ” when the lights go out ” will have new meaning. There’ll be 90 bureaucrats sitting round with pencil and paper manually crossing out lines by candlelight because they deregulated and canned the hydro storage electricity project.
The guy is an absolute C**k Womble ???
If they regulate the power companies and landlord s and supermarket s, all sides of politics will be saying what a great job the department is doing.
We have given the Chinese and Indian House Farmers a $3.0 Billion Tax Break, I don’t f*****g get it, we really are staring down the barrel going forward. Things are going to get messy b4 they get better. I don’t rate any of the Parties on the Left, the Right or the Centre.
You’ve missed the point. There job is to deregulate . This means things like letting shit flow into stream, doing away with safety regs in early childhood centres etc.
Certainly not more regulation.
Libertarians don’t like rules , ( except their own like sanction child breeders), they DEregulate because in a Libertarian fantasy markets naturally form.
Of course no one is evil in this fantasy society so Regs are not needed to prevent such events as corporate rip offs, killer buildings, food poisoning and illegal exploitation never occurs.
Never mind that NZ is already number one globally for ease of business across all measures, we must have Little Dave’s expensive anti- Regs blackshirts department.
I suppose if I had to describe Mr. Seymour’s credibility, I would say “the jury is out”.
The jury will come back with hang the cunt
” This is just hilarious isn’t it? ”
Of course your talking serious salaries here to cut bureaucratic red tape apparently.
Funny how this expenditure escapes the Willis razor gang along with the majority off grossly overpaid civil servant managers.
Looking forward to all the savings they are going to create to justify all the six figure salaries left untouched in the public service at the expense of many frontline productive under paid staff.
I knew it wouldn’t be long before Seymour and Willis showed the hypocrisy behind their cut and slash policies and of course its history repeating itself with the Bolger , Birch , Richardson Shipley and Kidd razor gang in the 1990s.
They promised a new economic nirvana only to fail and by 1999 leaving the bail out to Clark ,Anderton and Cullen that took eight years to fully fund public services.
No,their cult, like other weird social most selective cults will be as most cults, left to political ridicule.
Mean while NZ is burning or drowning and the water and the beaches are being stolen
What are we really dealing with here and why is it so upsetting to the Left? Well it’s an anti red tape ministry. Funny that, red tape is the staple food for socialist governments. Control control control.
Naive, naive, naive…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/transport-minister-simeon-brown-posts-video-to-dispel-weird-rumours-that-he-cant-drive/VDYFKSPLPFC35GL4O7OPTBLJWA/
Now let us see if Simeon can change his own nappies.
Yes the left are unable to look after themselves they require the assistance of the state.
You keep spelling right wrong
Yes the right are unable to look after themselves they require the assistance of their donors and lobbyists.