Fleur Fitzsimons: PSA National Secretary on the call to cull ministerial portfolios

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Sep 1, 2025 · 3m · transcript

A push to slim down New Zealand’s unusually large number of ministerial portfolios is being met with caution.

A report by the New Zealand Initiative's found comparable countries have a third of our 81 portfolios and is calling for a cull.

PSA's national secretary Fleur Fitzsimons says they don't object to a discussion around this.

But she told Andrew Dickens it's taking place in a political context, driven by the ACT Party.

Fitzsimons says David Seymour's been vocal about dismissing more public servants and moving to a model of privatisation.

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