Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has no intention of following the example of her Australian counterpart, Malcolm Turnbull, by banning ministers from having sexual relations with their staff.
"My ministers have a very clear sense of the expectations that we have of them in terms of their behaviour," she said at her post Cabinet press conference on Monday.
"That cuts across a wide area. I do not believe at this time that that is the kind of thing that is necessary for our New Zealand ministers."
Asked if ministers would be sacked if they had sex with their staff, she said there was a high standard of expectations for ministers "and I wouldn't want to have be in a position of having to consider that kind of thing."
"My expectation is that I will not have to deal with a hypothetical like that."
