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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When it's really fragmented, what they end up doing uh is actually fighting for turf with each other and trying to keep people out who could do a good job because they tend to be dominated by the incumbents in that industry uh or that sector rather than asking about what's best for patients. The other thing about having um, you know, a whole lot of small regulators is that they tend to look for stuff to do. Whereas if you have one and say, look, you got finite resources, finite time, do the things you really have to do, like keeping patients safe, make that your priority. Then they kind of have to economize and you actually get efficiency. So that that would be an example of where I think we could do a lot better.
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