Responding to ACT’s plans to allow ministers to be able
to publicly issue key performance indicators for public
service chief executives, Taxpayers’ Union Policy Adviser,
James Ross, said:
“For far too long, too many public
servants have been taking the taxpayer for an easy ride. If
any one of us had spent years patently failing to do our
jobs effectively, we would quite rightly expect to be
sacked; it’s well past time that high-flying mandarins in
cushy Wellington corner offices were held to at least the
same standards as the rest of us.”
“In just six
short years, Government spending has rocketed by nearly 70%.
In that time, delivery on vital public services such as
health and education has bottomed out. It’s clear that
chucking billions at these departments hasn’t worked, and
a major public sector cultural change is needed to start
getting some bang for the taxpayer’s buck
again.
“Unlike ministers and MPs, the public lack
any meaningful way of holding our public servants to
account. ACT’s plan to introduce publicly-available key
performance indicators for public service chief executives
will hopefully be the first step of many towards dragging
key public services back up to
snuff.”
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