A tweet questions the decision to retain Stuart Nash's ministerial roles despite a 2020 legal warning from the Attorney General.
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Well, there are two things. We need to amalgamate functions. We've got far too many government departments at 43 or 39 budget holding departments, as the finance minister described in this afternoon. So we need to consolidate them down to about 20. Hand in hand with that, we need to consolidate down the number of ministerial portfolios. So that we've also got about 20. At the moment, we've got 83 ministerial portfolios, so we've fragmented sliced and diced responsibility.
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Roger Partridge: New Zealand Initiative board chair on the Government planning to slash thousands of public service rolesSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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