It's been portrayed as an over-indulgence in inquisition and so it could be for a new coalition Government said to have initiated more than 70 reports or inquiries in just over five months.
But it's not so much the number that matters, for given late 21st and late 20th century
Government propensity for not really divulging the whole truth and nothing but the truth prior to election time it would be a dereliction of duty not to be asking a truckload of questions.
Where it falls down, a bit, is that there's a certain amount of disconnection, as highlighted when it was revealed at least three Family Court judges had been subjected to protests outside their homes, about matters inside their jurisdiction.
Few will go with that form of attack, but it raised a debate, and Labour MP and Minister of Justice Andrew Little, while saying there were more proper channels through which the protesters could work, announced the umpteenth review of family courts.
This is, however, a bit of doubling-up, for in February Labour leader and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Minister for Children and New Zealand First MP Tracey Martin announced there will be a Royal Commission of Inquiry into historical abuse of children in state care.
