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Ryan Bridge: Cutting red tape by adding complexity · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Do we really need a Minister of Booze? Back in
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  Speaker 1: the good old days, they were all Ministers of Booze.
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  Speaker 1: The whole Cabinet, especially this one. Doesn't give my opponents
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  Speaker 1: much time to run up to a election, does it?
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  Speaker 1: But the idea that we need a Minister responsible for alcohol,
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  Speaker 1: while well-intentioned, like all the 81-odd portfolios that previous reviews
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  Speaker 1: and recommendations have created, is not necessary. This is one
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  Speaker 1: of the recommendations from the Hospitality Sector Regulatory Review. This
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  Speaker 1: review was done by the Ministry for Regulation. Remember that
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  Speaker 1: ministry was created to cut red tape and make government
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  Speaker 1: less complicated. It's recommended creating a new agency and a
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  Speaker 1: new ministerial responsibility. It was announced by the Minister for Regulation,
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  Speaker 1: David Seymour, whose role was also set up to cut
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  Speaker 1: red tape. Can you see the problem here? There are
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  Speaker 1: no doubt good reasons to make rules simpler and get
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  Speaker 1: rid of regulations, but creating a new minister and ministry
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  Speaker 1: who then does a review and recommends creating another agency
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  Speaker 1: and another ministerial job just sounds backwards. It's like bacteria,
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  Speaker 1: bureaucratic bacteria. They multiply and spread everywhere. One minute, it's
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  Speaker 1: a single cell. Next minute, it's split into two. Next minute,
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  Speaker 1: there's four. It goes on and on and on. We
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  Speaker 1: need fewer jobs in Wellington, surely not more. Remember, Ireland, Norway, Singapore, Finland,
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  Speaker 1: similar size to us, they've got fewer than 20 ministerial roles.
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  Speaker 1: The UK, Canada, the US, Korea, a lot larger than us,
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  Speaker 1: still fewer than 30. The saving grace here is that
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  Speaker 1: no decisions on this review have yet been made, so
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  Speaker 1: why not just cut the red tape and send the
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  Speaker 1: pollies for a beer at Bellamy's? For more from Early
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