Public Service sector 'not fit for purpose', new commissioner says

Public Service sector 'not fit for purpose', new commissioner says

Sir Brian Roche has warned the current model needed to lift productivity and streamline processes.

Roche says public service has lost its way and needs to get out of Wellington

Up until now, the prevailing coalition view of public servants was that there were simply too many of them. But yesterday the new Public Service Commissioner, handpicked by the Luxon Government, said it was not so much numbers but what they did and the value they produced that mattered. Sir Brian Roche gave the University of Waikato Economic Forum a searing critique of the public service as it is now. He said it had lost its way. It needed more …