Comments by "andrew worth" (@andrewworth7574) on "Q+A with Jack Tame" channel.

Why the preference for Labour Party supporters to be on these panels?
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Covid saved Labour in 2020, it was the continuation of those policies that would have lost them the election in 2020 that cost them in 2023.
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It's the context of the considerable increase in the number of employees in the core public sector over the last 6 years that's important 14,000 people that have contributed to a decline in the quality of government services.
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How about the decline in output of government services over the last 6 years, while the core government labour force grew as it did?
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And yet the outcomes at public hospitals are considerably worse today than when Labour came into power.
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David, and hopefully this government, is totally focused on getting the taxpayer value for money, a basic principle the previous government appeared completely blind to.
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The problem with the Labour government was that it didn't pay attention to results, the assumption they worked on was that paying more people must mean more output. It does not, more paper shufflers produces more paperwork.
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@Squeph there's been a 30% increase in staff. And why does there need to be an increase in line with population growth?
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So in your fantasy land there are no poor pakeha.
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You realize that less core public servants mean staff at hospitals will need to spend less time on unnecessary paperwork? That paying less bureaucrats means there's more money for doctors and nurses?
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@matthewviliamu2679 more core public servants spending more time interacting with people in the wider public sector requires those people in the wider public sector to spend (waste) more of their time dealing with the bureaucrats. People in hospitals are spending more time on paperwork, less time on medicine, that's a complaint I've heard from doctors.
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@Squeph no, that's always the leftist assumption, that things cannot be done with less people and more efficiently, but more efficiency is how businesses in a competitive marketplace have to do things to stay in business.
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@Squeph is that some sort of not very clever strawman? To improve living standards in a country better technology needs to be used to improve the output per person, that's what the private sector has to do, that's what should be expected of the public sector. Over the term of the Labour government public sector efficiency has evidently declined by around 20%, such poor performance would kill a private sector company.
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@Squeph "decline in efficiency" 30% increase in staff vs 8.5% increase in population. Are there some improvement in productive outcomes from the core civil service that no one is aware of?
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@jtonline99 if businesses get it wrong they pay. Do you understand that we're talking about core bureaucratic staff, not police staff, doctors and teachers? That the Labour government could have employed more doctors, police staff and teachers if it had chosen to employ less bureaucrats.
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The Labour government rapidly increased spending prior to covid and continues to spend, spend, spend, with nothing to show for it long after covid.
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@adsdft585 easy for you to look up nz government spending by year. Can you point to successful government initiatives that show a return to Kiwis for all that extra spending?
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@o900junior you're right to put "neutral" in quotation marks.
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 @jame2433 increase in front line staff, but the core public service deals with the wider public sector rather than the public.
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@Squeph "You have suggested there is no link between population, and necessary staffing levels". Nope, I have not, your interpreting my argument that way simply illustrates your dishonesty.
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@jtonline99 and yet waiting lists increased, ER waiting times increased, crime rose, truancy rose, education standards declined . . . Labour spent more taxpayer money, with the tax take increasing substantially, and achieved poorer results.
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@jame2433 "Newshub can reveal every month thousands of people are choosing to leave emergency departments instead of waiting for treatment, whilst the number of patients waiting more than 24 hours in an emergency department is soaring". national implemented and achieved a target of 95% of ED patients being seen within six hours. labour scrapped that target, and now we have thousands of people not even staying to be seen. "Newshub can reveal on average nearly 3400 people are walking out of eds every month and that's not even counting those who sign the paperwork confirming it was their choice to go."
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