Chief Executive’s introduction
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Tēnā koutou katoa,
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) maintains a focus on supporting the Government to drive economic growth. Over the past year we have continued to lead and contribute to significant initiatives aimed at helping make New Zealand a better place to live and do business. Our work interacts with all New Zealand businesses and touches on the lives of almost every New Zealander.
Since the formation of this Government at the end of 2023, we have worked at pace to support our ministers in respect of the 100-day plan, Mini-Budget and Budget and quarterly action plans – which have resulted in changes to our work programmes and priorities. The dynamic nature of MBIE and the work that we have supported over recent years means that we are no strangers to change.
It is an ongoing priority for MBIE and the public service to ensure we have a focus on responsible spending and achieve value for money, making every dollar of taxpayer money count. We want to ensure we are best leveraging the skills and expertise across our organisation to support the Government’s ambition of rebuilding the economy to one that is more dynamic and productive. MBIE shapes and manages many of the underlying systems that contribute to achieving these goals, supporting 17 regulatory systems.
Building on organisational change processes in 2023 to strengthen our shared services and align our corporate, finance and enablement functions, this year we implemented a series of change processes across MBIE to ensure we are operating in an efficient and effective way.
In supporting the Government’s economic strategy, we are focused on increasing capital availability and capital intensity for New Zealand businesses to support the ambition to double the value of exports in ten years.
We have continued to secure and leverage major events including the FIFA Women’s World Cup, SailGP, and the World Choir Games. Supporting the screen sector industry is also a key priority.
We delivered a suite of changes to the Accredited Employer Work Visa scheme to tighten settings, and began work on changes to fees and levies to better reflect the costs of delivering services and who benefits from these. In the last year, we assessed 704 refugee and protection claims, the highest number of resolved claims in 20 years.
Our immigration compliance team’s focus on migrant exploitation has resulted in six criminal prosecutions and an additional 1,736 individual actions spanning infringement notices, formal warnings, and referrals to partner agencies.
This past year has seen continued investment in regions through the $150m North Island Weather Event Primary Producer Funding Scheme and work to launch the Regional Infrastructure Fund.
We have also supported a package of financial services reforms, aiming to provide regulatory clarity, protect vulnerable consumers and grow the economy. We have supported initiatives that aim to create a more productive building and construction sector, notably:
- working towards eliminating barriers on the use of overseas building products which will improve building options and affordability
- consulting on a proposal to make it easier to build small, self-contained and detached houses through changes to the Building Act and the Resource Management Act.
This year we also updated our Strategic Intentions 2023-2028 and now report on our performance against five key outcomes:
- Prosperous and adaptable people, sectors and regions
- Skilled people engaged in safe and productive work
- Competitive markets with informed consumers and businesses
- Strong and resilient economy and value derived from natural resources
- Dynamic business environment fostering innovation and international connections.
In the past year, each part of our business has adopted MBIE’s ‘Customer Promise’. Every part of our business can use the Customer Promise guidelines – Simple, Safe and Certain – to help guide the work they do and how this is delivered.
MBIE continues to work hard to meet our Treaty settlement obligations. We want to enable strong relationships with and improve outcomes for Māori. As part of our interactions across businesses and New Zealanders, it is important to engage effectively with our diverse communities across New Zealand, iwi and Māori.
The quality of the work we have done and continue to do is testament to our MBIE people. I want to thank them for all they continue to do in support of our purpose to grow Aotearoa New Zealand for all.
Noho ora mai rā
Carolyn Tremain
Secretary for Business, Innovation and Employment and Chief Executive
Te Hēkeretari, te Tumu Whakarae mō Hīkina Whakatutuki
He kupu takamua nā te tumu whakarae
Tēnā koutou katoa,
Ka pūmau tonu a Hīkina Whakatutuki (MBIE) i tōna aro ki te tautoko i ngā mahi whakawhanake a te kāwanatanga i te ōhanga. I te tau kua mahue nei, kua aunoa tā mātou arataki i ngā kaupapa nui e aro nei ki te hāpai i a Aotearoa e whāia ana hei kāinga taurikura, hei wāhi pai mō te whakatū pakihi. Ka toro whānui i ā mātou mahi ki ngā pakihi katoa o Aotearoa, ā, ka whai hua hoki ki a Aotearoa whānui.
Nō te putanga mai o tēnei kāwanatanga i te hiku o te tau 2023, kua puta wawe mai ā mātou kōkiritanga mahi ki te tautoko i ngā Minita mō te āhua ki te mahere e 100 rā te roa, ki te tahua-iti, te tahua matua me ngā mahere ngohe hauwhā ā-tau, ā, i reira hua mai ai ētahi rerekētanga ki ā mātou hōtaka mahi, whāinga tōmua hoki. Ko te āhua o MBIE me ngā kaupapa kua tautokotia e mātou i ngā tau tata nei e tohu mai ana i tā mātou taunga ki tēnei mea, ki te panonitanga.
Ka mau tonu te whāinga tōmua a Hīkina Whakatutuki me ngā ratonga tūmatanui kia mau ai te aronga ki te tōtika o te whakapau pūtea, kia whai hua ai, kia whai take ai te whakapau i ngā moni a te kaiutu tākē. Ko tā mātou hiahia, he whakamahi i te hunga kei a rātou ngā pūkenga me ngā mōhiotanga puta noa i tā mātou wāhi mahi hei tautoko i te hiahia a te kāwanatanga ki te whakaara ake anō i te ōhanga kia hihiri ai, kia whai hua ai. Ko tā Hīkina Whakatutuki he tārai, he whakahaere hoki i te nui o ngā pūnaha e tutuki ai ēnei whāinga; ko tōna 17 te nui o ngā pūnaha waeture e tautokotia ana.
Ko te whakapakari i ngā tukanga panoni ā-mahi i te tau 2023 hei whakakaha i ngā huinga ratonga, me te hāngaitanga o ēnei ki ā mātou kawenga rangatōpū, kawenga ahumoni, kawenga tukunoa hoki i taea ai mātou te whakatutuki i te nui o ngā panonitanga puta no ai Hīkina Whakatutuki i tēnei tau i runga i te tika o ngā whakahaere.
Mō te tautoko i te rautaki ōhanga a te kāwanatanga, ko te wātea o te pūrawa te mea nui e arotia ana e mātou hei tautoko i te hiahia kia tuaruatia te uara o ngā hoko whakawaho ā ngā tau tekau e tū mai nei. Kua whakapūmautia ngā taiopenga nui, pēnei i te: FIFA Women’s World Cup i te tau 2023 me te tau 2024; te Sail GP me te World Choir Games. Ko te tuku tautoko ki te ahumahi rāngai tauārai hoki tētahi whāinga tōmua.
He nui ngā panonitanga i kōkiritia mō te āhua ki te Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV), kia hāngai ake te titiro, ā, i tīmata hoki te whakarerekē haere i ngā utu me ngā rewi kia mārama ake te kitea o ngā utu whakatutuki i ngā ratonga, ka mutu, ko wai ka whai hua i ēnei. I tēnei tau kua huri, e 704 ngā kerēme rerenga, tautiaki hoki i aromatawaitia e mātou – koinei te kohanga kerēme nui rawa o roto i te 20 tau kua huri nei.
I aro tā mātou rōpū tautukunga manuheke ki ngā mahi whakahāwini manuheke, ā ko te hua, e ono ngā hāmenetanga taihara, e 1,736 ngā kēhi takitahi e pā ana ki ngā pānui hara, ki ngā pānui whakatūpato me ngā pānui tukuhanga ki ngā tari kōtuinga.
I tēnei tau kua huri nei, kua kaha tonu te tuku haumitanga ki ngā rohe mā roto i te tahua North Island Weather Event Primary Producer Funding Scheme e $150m te wāriu, me te aha, e kaha mahi tonu ana ki te whakamānu i te kaupapa Regional Infrastructure Fund.
Kua tautoko hoki mātou i tētahi kōpaki ratonga ahumoni e aro ana kia whai māramatanga ai ngā mahi ki te taha waeture, kia tautiakitia ngā kiritaki e hēmanawa ana; kia tipu ai te ōhanga. I tautoko mātou i ngā kaupapa e aro ana ki te whakapai ake i te rāngai hanga kāinga, arā:
- Hei kaupare i ngā āraitanga mō te whakamahi i ngā rawa hanga kāinga o tāwāhi kia pai ake ai ngā kōwhiringa hanga, kia māmā ai hoki ngā utu
- He tuku tohutohu i tētahi tono e māmā ai te hanga kāinga iti nei, te hanga kāinga tautauāmoa me te hanga kāinga noho wehe mā roto i ngā whakarerekētanga ki te Ture Hanga Kāinga me te Ture Whakahaere Rawa.
I tēnei tau, i arotakengia hoki tā mātou Tauākī Whāinga 2023-2028, ā, ināianei ka pūrongotia ā mātou whakatutukitanga mō ngā putanga matua e rima:
- Te Tōnuitanga, ten oho mauritau o te iwi; ngā rāngai me ngā rohe
- Kia whai pūkenga te iwi i ā rātou toronga mahi i runga i te haumaru me te whai kiko
- Te whakataetaetanga o ngā mākete, kia whai māramatanga ai ngā kiritaki me ngā pakihi
- Te kaha me te māia o te ōhanga, te whai hua o ngā rawa ā-taiao
- Te hihiri o tea o pakihi kia tipu ai te auaha me ngā tūhononga ki te ao.
I te tau kua huri ake, ia wāhanga o tā mātou tari e maau ana ki te ‘Oati Kiritaki’ a Hīkina Whakatutuki. E taea ana e ngā wāhanga katoa o te tari te whakamahi i te aratohu oati kiritaki – he ngāwari, he haumaru, he ahuroa – hei ārahi i a rātou ki te whakatutuki i ngā mahi.
Kei te whakapau kaha tonu a Hīkina Whakatutuki kia tutuki ai ā mātou herenga ki te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ko te hiahia, kia whirikaha ngā tūhononga hei whakapai ake i ngā putanga hua ki te Māori. Mō te taha ki ā mātou toronga ki ngā pakihi me Aotearoa whānui, he mea nui kia tika te toro atu ki ngā hapori kanorau puta noa i Aotearoa, ki ngā iwi me ngāi Māori.
Ko te pai o ā mātou mahi ka haere tonu, ā, he tohu kē i te pai o ā mātou kaimahi. Ko tāku, he mihi ki a rātou mō ā rātou mahi e aunoa tonu nei i tā mātou whai ki te whakawhanake i a Aotearoa mō tātou katoa.
Noho ora mai rā
Carolyn Tremain
Te Hēkeretari, te Tumu Whakarae mō Hīkina Whakatutuki