Minister gets key jobs role

Press, 10 February 1989, Page 5

Minister gets key jobs role

Political reporter The Christchurch Cabinet Minister, Mr Moore, has been given the key role in ensuring that a collective Cabinet focus on unemployment continues. The Prime Minister, Mr Lange, said yesterday that Mr Moore would chair a new Cabinet committee — the Economic Development and Employment Cabinet Committee. This was the main move to be announced at a press conference after the Cabinet’s all-day session on unemployment at Vogel House on Wednesday. Mr Lange emphasised that employment was not the responsibility of any one Minister. (i

“One extraordinary contribution session took place yesterday where individual Ministers, who had, never really been charged with the question of what they could do to generate employment, were tasked with making their contribution to that.” Ministers have been asked to identify and eliminate "impediments” to employment within their portfolio areas. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr Bolger, said later that the Government had no answers to unemployment. “In fact, the protesters that appeared there (Vogel House) were 100 per cent correct. They (Cabinet) were going to do nothing and they have done nothing.”