15 April 2015

More Parliamentary Service Feather-Bedding?

UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne is querying five new staff positions recently advertised by the Parliamentary Service.

The Parliamentary Service is currently advertising for:

• An Organisational Development Manager to join the People and Culture Leadership team

• A Senior Organisational Development Advisor

• A Senior Learning and Development Advisor to build people and organisational capability

• A Talent Manager for the People and Culture Leadership team

• A People and Culture Services Manager.

“These all sound like bureaucratic gobbledegook to me.

“Parliamentary Services is charged with running the Parliamentary complex, and ensuring MPs get the services they need to operate effectively – no more, no less.

“How any of these positions contribute to that objective is a mystery to me.

“It just looks like more Parliamentary Service feather-bedding, and I cannot see how any of these positions will lead in any way to better assisting MPs serve the public who elected them,” he says.

Mr Dunne says he is more than a little surprised that the Taxpayers Union “that seems it knows everything about government expenditure” has not been critical of these proposed new appointments.

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