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NZ Transport Agency responding to findings of regulatory compliance review

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The NZ Transport Agency says work is well underway to address the findings of the Ministry of Transport’s review of the Agency’s regulatory capability and performance, commissioned by the Minister of Transport in October 2018 and published today.

“We acknowledge the review’s findings, and work began to resolve these issues as soon as they were identified,” says NZ Transport Agency Board Chair Sir Brian Roche.

“We fully support the review’s recommendations, and we will continue to work with the Minister, the Ministry of Transport and our regulatory partners as we work towards becoming a best practice regulator. The Transport Agency also welcomes the review’s acknowledgement of the significant progress that has been made since these regulatory failings were identified one year ago. Our regulatory function is already in a very different place. We have set a goal of becoming a best practice regulator, and we will work relentlessly to get there.

“The core function of Regulatory Services at the Transport Agency is to improve safety and reduce harm for everyone using the land transport system. Our efforts are focused on safer drivers, safer vehicles, safer commercial transport and safer rail. We are taking a firm and fair approach to regulatory compliance. Our job is to make it easy for the majority who comply with the rules, and to take action against the minority who don’t.

“In April this year Kane Patena was appointed as the Transport Agency’s new General Manager of Regulatory Compliance. Under Kane’s leadership, and with the full support of Interim Chief Executive Mark Ratcliffe and the NZTA Board, the Transport Agency is in the process of significantly increasing our internal capability and regulatory oversight, with recruitment of up to 100 positions across our Regulatory Services group planned over the next 18 months.

“Our front-line people work incredibly hard to improve safety and reduce harm in the land transport system. I want to emphasise that they are not responsible for the historic regulatory failings identified by the review, which are attributed to systemic issues related to governance and executive leadership,” Mr Roche says.

Since October 2018 the Transport Agency has undertaken work to build its capability and systems to deliver its core functions, including strengthening governance, decision-making, people capability and operational capability. The Agency has also restructured its regulatory compliance function with an increased focus on better risk management and a strengthened organisational culture.

In line with the review’s recommendations, the Transport Agency is developing a new regulatory strategy and is establishing a new regulatory operating model that defines the capability, processes and systems to implement an enhanced regulatory strategy and approach.

The results of the review into the Transport Agency’s regulatory performance and the separate review of the Ministry of Transport’s monitoring of the Transport Agency are available at: www.transport.govt.nz/news/ce/nzta-regulatory-performance-report-released(external link)

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