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Taxpayers Forgotten in Ministerial Horse-Trading
MEDIA RELEASE
TAXPAYERS FORGOTTEN IN MINISTERIAL HORSE-TRADING
23 SEPTEMBER
2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Responding to the Prime Minister’s comments reported on Radio New Zealand, that he is considering giving Act MP David Seymour a ministerial role because “When they have more staffing and resources as a result of a junior ministerial role it is easier from both their perspective and ours”, Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director Jordan Williams says:
“Ministers should be appointed based on competency to serve, not as a dishonest way to give an a single MP party extra staff.”
“The Prime Minister’s comments imply that he wants to give Mr Seymour a junior ministerial role in order for him to have more Parliamentary resources. If true, it is an affront to taxpayers who have to fork out money for this horse-trading.”
“We’re calling on the Prime Minister to assure New Zealanders that ministerial roles are not being given to minor parties as an underhand method for more taxpayer funding.”
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