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"The majority of the 22,821 submissions on last year’s consultation on a potential Regulatory Standards Bill weren’t even read by the Ministry for Regulation before proposals on next steps were taken to Cabinet."
#MarcDaalder, 2025
Just remember the call for submissions over the holidays was just a box-ticking Ministry of Disregulation consultation. The select committee process is happening right now;
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"The quantitative analysis was conducted by hired consultants, who fed the submissions into a large language model – a form of generative AI.
After this, the ministry separated out all submissions from iwi, hapū or other organisations, as well as all submissions longer than 10,000 characters (about 1600 words) and read these as part of a 'qualitative analysis'."
#MarcDaalder, 2025
shudder
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> “I’ve always said the point of submissions is the ideas they produce. In this consultation, there just weren’t that many. Most of the submissions were either ‘totally off topic’ or didn’t provide compelling reasons to alter the bill’s core principles.”
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> However, experts and the opposition have raised concerns that soliciting but then not reading submissions could erode faith in democratic processes.
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Nothing to see here:
> Regulation Minister David Seymour said he was comfortable with the process followed by officials because there were few worthwhile ideas in the nearly 23,000 submissions received by the ministry.
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> “I was aware of the ministry’s approach to analysing the submissions, which filtered out spurious submissions fuelled by social-media campaigns, and allowed substantive ideas to be considered carefully,” he told Newsroom.
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