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Friends, colleagues, family and now publicly scrapping: Ministers Kelvin Davis and Peeni Henare. (File photo)
Defense Minister Peeni Henare has been warned to stay in his own ministerial lane in a fight with his fellow cabinet member Kelvin Davis.
Davis, the minister in charge of Oranga Tamariki, told Henare to limit himself to commenting on his own CEOs after Henare spoke to the media about the head of the welfare agency, Grainne Moss, saying he was coming out of office. , potentially very fast.
“He knows, we all know, that I don’t participate in discussions about myself [chief executives] in public, ”Davis said. “And you know it’s not appropriate for cabinet ministers to talk about other people’s ECs as well.”
Davis said it wasn’t boring, but that it was “appropriate that we have these conversations.”
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Oranga Tamariki CEO Grainne Moss appeared on Wednesday in an urgent Waitangi Court investigation into the removal of Maori babies. (File photo)
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He said that Henare was still a new cabinet minister, and basically “we left it at that.”
“We are still partners, we are still relatives [relatives]We’re still colleagues, you know. [So] we just keep going. “
Henare declined to comment.
It comes as Davis appears to have softened her own stance towards Moss, the executive director of the criticized child welfare agency, even though she still refuses to express her confidence in her.
Davis said Henare’s public speculation to the media about Moss’s position would not create employment problems.
“Again I have to be very careful, the answer is no. I called Grainne and told her opinions [Henare’s] they are not my views, and that we just have to go ahead and do what’s best for the children in New Zealand. “
Again after he asked me Things, He did not express confidence in Moss, but hinted that he could still earn it.
“I don’t know her. I went into this job: I go in with my eyes open, I see what the lay of the land is and I talk to people who have a variety of views across the spectrum, I talk to Maori, and I just go to decide for myself how to move forward. ” .
Davis said whatever happens, the system should be better three years from now “than what we have now.”
Davis spoke the day after Moss appeared in an urgent Waitangi Court investigation into the extraction of Maori babies, triggered by the attempt to lift a baby at a Hastings hospital last year.
Media coverage of the Hastings incident prompted a series of inquiries and reviews of Oranga Tamariki’s practices.
