A red tape tipline allowing the public to report their regulation “horror stories” has gone live amid the Government’s focus on what it claims are over-regulated industries.
Regulations Minister David Seymour, who is set to discuss the tipline in his speech to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce today, told the Herald the new ministry had received a flurry of reports from people about what he described as “rapid regulatory problems”, which had informed the development of the new tool.
He cited examples including the requirement to service fax machines despite their minimal use and the need to detect flour dust at bakeries “at a level that no machinery can actually detect”.
“These are just examples of things that people have come to us with, that we’ve been able to have some influence on fixing,” Seymour said.
