ACT pretend hairdressers getting boozed is the most important regulatory issue

Hairdressing law shake-up announced by David Seymour

Separate hairdressing regulations are set to be scrapped, with cabinet agreeing to all four recommendations from a regulatory review into the hairdressing and barbering industry.

The review, carried out by the Ministry for Regulation along with the Ministry of Health, looked at the regulations the industry needed to follow and whether any of them were deemed to be unnecessary or holding the industry back.

They included rules prohibiting dogs, other than guide-dogs, from being inside a barber shop and a ban on staff serving their clients refreshments.

Minister for Regulation David Seymour said “pointless bureaucracy” was being cut back.

How the Christ is ‘cutting red tape’ so your hairdresser can serve you a glass of wine the most important issue?

ACT are attempting to hold this up as a great moment of freedom, what a load of bullshit.

If we want to cut red tape, how about David Seymour’s Red Tape Palace?

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?

Regulation ministry launches tipline in search of ‘red tape horror stories’

A red tape tipline allowing the public to report their regulation “horror stories” has gone live amid the Government’s focus on what it claims are over-regulated industries.

Regulations Minister David Seymour, who is set to discuss the tipline in his speech to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce today, told the Herald the new ministry had received a flurry of reports from people about what he described as “rapid regulatory problems”, which had informed the development of the new tool.

He cited examples including the requirement to service fax machines despite their minimal use and the need to detect flour dust at bakeries “at a level that no machinery can actually detect”.

“These are just examples of things that people have come to us with, that we’ve been able to have some influence on fixing,” Seymour said.

The Nark line will be used by industry who want regulations taken down for their interest to  be used as PR material for ACT.

Of course we don’t want a level of red tape that makes it impossible to do things, but we have regulation for a reason and ACT are pathologically against Government on principle.

If you think David allowing hairdressers to serve you a glass of wine during your haircut is important, you are part of the problem.

 

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