Unwinding 9 months of bloat is not “generational harm”

Public Service Association National Secretary Fleur Fitzsimons’ claims that the Opportunity’s plans to remove 2,000 bureaucrats would ‘harm public services for generations’.

Responding, Taxpayers’ Union Spokesman James Ross said:

“Between June 2025 and March 2026, the public service grew by 1,881 bureaucrats. There are still 17,284 more bureaucrats today than before the last Labour Government.”

“Does Fleur Fitzsimons seriously expect taxpayers to believe that unwinding just over nine months of bureaucratic bloat would somehow be the catastrophe the public service’s union mates are claiming?"