Government names public sector agencies for chop
Charities Commission, ALAC and Mental Health Commission to go - but what's sprouting up to take their place?
The Government has lined up several public agencies for the chop - but State Services Minister Tony Ryall’s plans come with a number of new organisations to take their place.
Mr Ryall said in a statement today his new package of restructuring and mergers would save $19.6 million over four years.
“Reducing the number of government agencies, where it makes sense, will improve the delivery of services to the public, reduce duplication of roles, and allow reprioritisation of spending to where it will have the greatest impact,” Mr Ryall says.
The Alcohol Advisory Council (ALAC) and the Health Sponsorship Council and certain functions of the Ministry of Health are to be combined into a new “arms-length health promotion agency”.
The Charities Commission will be folded into the Department of Internal Affairs, although registration responsibilities will be outsourced to a new statutory board.
The Mental Health Commission is to go, folded into the Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner (HDC), but a new Mental Health Commissioner will be appointed within the HDC.
Quasi-judicial bodies the Health Act Boards of Appeal, the Maritime Appeals Authority and the Land Valuation Tribunals are to do with their functions transferred to the District Court.
A number of previously announced mergers would push total annual savings from restructuring to $22 million, Mr Ryall says.
Mr Ryall has previously announced the DIA would swallow the National Library and Archives New Zealand, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry would merge with Food Safety New Zealand and the Ministry of Fisheries, and a new Ministry of Innovation would combine the ministry and foundation for research science and technology.
Matt Nippert
Thu, 11 Aug 2011
Thu, 11 Aug 2011
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Government names public sector agencies for chop
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