The Auditor General Puts The Boot In To The Outgoing Labour Government.

Pinched the following from Kiwiblog because it needs to be circulated far and wide within New Zealand.

The Auditor-General is right

The Auditor-General in their annual report states:

This year we continued to focus on improvements needed to the information that public organisations provide about their performance. It is still too hard to tell what New Zealanders are receiving for about $160 billion of central government expenditure each year, and whether it represents value for money. I have raised this matter in several of my reports, as well as directly with the Officers of Parliament Committee. In my view, fundamental changes are needed to the system for how public organisations are required to report on performance, to ensure that the public sector meets the accountability requirements of a 21st century New Zealand. This is an important and urgent matter.

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We’re spending $160 billion a year and the Auditor-General is saying he can’t tell if it is value for money and that fundamental reform is needed as both an important and urgent matter. This should be a major story.

Given that it’s been thirty years since all government departments and ministries were converted to accrual accounting and equipped with computerised accounting systems, there really is no excuse for not at least knowing where the money has gone, which is the starting point for then figuring out if it’s done any good and then working back to ask whether it could have been spent in a better way by connecting it to non-dollar measurements.

Therefore it’s got to be fraud, probably not in the old-fashioned money-in-the-brown-envelope style, but in terms of “Public Servants” who just spend it, don’t give a shit, and then do everything they can to obfuscate it when confronted with FOIA requests and the like.

Aided by the Labour government gleefully dropping measurements, KPI’s and such. The most well-known area is health but I’d bet they did the same across every area of government spending.

See also this from 2019,. Accountability and other Laughter

And this from 2021. Making progress with Progressivism, where I quote Lefty Lefty Danyl Mclauchlan:

“Which raises an awkward question. If policy is developed by ministerial staff and implemented by DPMC, what do all of Robertson’s ministerial colleagues and their thousands of highly paid advisers do all day? Because the description of the Implementation Unit sounds an awful lot like the current role of a ministerial office.
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The Implementation Unit is a Blairite idea, as the Stuff journalists point out. He called it “the Delivery Unit”, inventing it in his final years in Downing Street to try and overcome what he perceived as the failure of both the civil service and his junior ministers in achieving his policy ambitions. Blair’s critics disagreed, arguing that Blair’s tendency to grandstand in the media by announcing visionary, aspirational goals without figuring out how to deliver them was the deeper problem with his administration.

Helpfully the Stuff article reminds us that Jacinda Ardern once worked for Tony Blair.”

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Tom Hunter says:

October 23, 2023 at 10:36 am

Given that it’s been thirty years since all government departments and ministries were converted to accrual accounting and equipped with computerised accounting systems, there really is no excuse for not at least knowing where the money has gone, which is the starting point for then figuring out if it’s done any good and then working back to ask whether it could have been spent in a better way by connecting it to non-dollar measurements.

Therefore it’s got to be fraud, probably not in the old-fashioned money-in-the-brown-envelope style, but in terms of “Public Servants” who just spend it, don’t give a shit, and then do everything they can to obfuscate it when confronted with FOIA requests and the like.

Aided by the Labour government gleefully dropping measurements, KPI’s and such. The most well-known area is health but I’d bet they did the same across every area of government spending.

See also this from 2019,. Accountability and other Laughter

And this from 2021. Making progress with Progressivism, where I quote Lefty Lefty Danyl Mclauchlan:

“Which raises an awkward question. If policy is developed by ministerial staff and implemented by DPMC, what do all of Robertson’s ministerial colleagues and their thousands of highly paid advisers do all day? Because the description of the Implementation Unit sounds an awful lot like the current role of a ministerial office.
…
The Implementation Unit is a Blairite idea, as the Stuff journalists point out. He called it “the Delivery Unit”, inventing it in his final years in Downing Street to try and overcome what he perceived as the failure of both the civil service and his junior ministers in achieving his policy ambitions. Blair’s critics disagreed, arguing that Blair’s tendency to grandstand in the media by announcing visionary, aspirational goals without figuring out how to deliver them was the deeper problem with his administration.

Helpfully the Stuff article reminds us that Jacinda Ardern once worked for Tony Blair.”

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