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New Deputy National Party Leader Shane Reti has started to review, using his new job to begin formulating KPIs for himself and the National Party caucus and finding out what went wrong for National in last month’s general election. .
Stuff sat down with Reti before the National Party shakeup on Tuesday and spoke to her about the deputy leadership, what went wrong for National and what it intends to do with its alternative health portfolio.
He described himself as the driving force behind the leader and alongside his colleagues.
Armed with an orderly mind and clearly comfortable with management language, Reti said National is “good with structure, we’re good with frames.”
“My main job right now is to find out … what KPIs should I be judged on, what KPIs should my colleagues be judged on: how are we going to measure our own effectiveness to show that we are being really good MPs, really good in opposition How does that look? “
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Reti said it was firmly based on evidence and was trying to figure out how to measure his performance and that of other colleagues.
“Although I recognize that there are some things that you cannot measure, it is not that maybe it is a role: how do you measure love, how do you measure virtue. There are some semi-qualitative things that just can’t be measured. “
Reti was elected as the new deputy leader of the National Party on Tuesday, promising to be the “engine room” behind leader Judith Collins.
He was voted in at a caucus meeting that also reconfirmed the party’s confidence in Collins as leader, despite the devastating electoral defeat.
The deputy leader post was vacated after Gerry Brownlee announced his resignation from the post, saying he needed to focus on bringing the party back into the fray in Christchurch.
He will continue to focus on the coronavirus as part of his responsibilities as shadow minister of health.
“Coronavirus and health clearly coincide side by side, there is a clear interface there, so I will continue to be very focused on coronavirus and that interface.”
“I will focus on what resources have been extracted from health as a result of the coronavirus, how many missed surgeries we had, what is required to make that delay, both from our main outbreak and at present.”
Reti also pointed to the government’s proposed change to District Health Boards, which aims to reduce the number of DHBs, end popularly elected boards, and enact a Maori Health Authority.
National campaigned against getting the bar from some DHBs and “that’s also a no today,” Reti said.
“How is the local voice preserved? That is a difficult problem.” Reti said. “I would reject that and I have.”
Reti said more transparency and accountability from the government was needed because if a DHB had a population of less than 400,000 people it would likely be abolished.
Will your own health budget have authority, can you direct its direction in that way? What is the interface with the Ministry of Health? Where is the strategy arm really going to sit? Where will the actual operating arm sit? Many challenges with the Maori Health Authority. “
Reti also described the government’s response to Covid as “good but not great.” He has a great suggestion for the government: make sure more rubber gloves are used in isolation facilities.
“It is not clear to me if the use of gloves is being used well in isolation facilities. What I am hearing and understanding is that gloves can certainly be used on insulation floors, but at check-in counters and other areas it is not. That takes a bit of thought. “
