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Medical Regulator Overlap

2 items · 2 aliases · peaked week of 17 May 2026 · first seen 20 May 2026

David Seymour, the Regulation Minister, calls for major consolidation of New Zealand's 267 disparate regulators, citing inefficiency, high costs, and wasted resources, with specific examples including dog and medical regulation, and argues that financial pressure will force such削

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  • No, there's no right number, but when you consider that this means we've basically got a regulator of some sort for every town the size of fielding in this country. It does feel like we're a small country with far too big a government. And then you look at some specific examples. We we drilled into dogs because it's just a bit of fun. I mean, there's five different government agencies that regulate dogs. There's eleven different laws that regulate dogs, uh, and then there's a bunch of subagencies. I mean, then there's the the police, the SPCA, and so on. Um, so there's actually just a crazy number of people involved in regulating dogs. Now, why does that matter? Because the minister for the local government is currently trying to, you know, deal to dog attacks. The number of people he has to deal with if he's going to do anything meaningful. I'm not saying he won't succeed, but you just feel that a lot of things would be easier if we looked at these and said, hey, maybe we need fewer agencies focused on doing things that are essential. We get better results, less costs, and it'll be easier to fix things.
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