Carmel hangs up

Aaron Smale at Stuff writes:

When the Minister for Social Development Carmel Sepuloni admitted she hadn’t read a report from the royal commission, it was all downhill from there.

After nearly a week of waiting for an interview with her, I finally got a call from Sepuloni as she travelled from Rotorua to Auckland on Thursday. I wanted to talk to her about a change to the legislation governing oversight of Oranga Tamariki.

Second question in, I asked if she had read the report on redress from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care – a pertinent document for someone whose ministry was responsible for setting up oversight for Oranga Tamariki.

She hadn’t read it. It appeared she hadn’t heard of it.

She’s the Minister for Social Development and she hasn’t even read (or possibly heard of) a report from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care.

Wow, she makes Phil Twyford look under-rated.