Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee, , 2:51:10 to 2:53:36
Overview of the voluntary redundancy program, including the number of expressions of interest and total cost.
Topics: Public service staffing, Government spending
Speakers: Hon Jonathon Duniam, Charlotte Tressler, Stephanie Foster, Unknown Speaker
Okay. Just finally on NZ quite Q in relation to have there been any offers of payment to cohort members to facilitate repatriation. And if so, how many payments have been made and what is the total value?
Senator, I think that we're really getting to operational detail here, and that would be best dealt with in outcome two.
We'll see you in outcome two then. Alright, we'll come back to that. Can I then go to voluntary redundancies? Yes. Thank you. So the response to the question on notice did outline a table of EOIs that were received. A total of just south of two, so 1,938. That number is still accurate as at today, is it?
That was the expressions of interest, Senator?
Yes, that's correct.
Yes, that was uh so Senator uh 1939 EOIs were received.
Okay. And that that number hasn't gone up since that answer was received on whatever date it was?
No, Senator.
Um just in terms of well, can I ask then? EOAs have been received. Where are we at in the process of dealing with those?
Yes, so Senator, we have um finalised the um VR program in the full. Um so all offers um were made and those that were going to accept have done so and have been paid.
Okay, and so the total number of those who've those offers that have been made and have been accepted and payment?
So um the office set offers that we sent were 818, 713 staff accepted an offer.
713 accepted. Okay. And do you have a breakdown of where those 713 materially, the ones that were accepted? And the other the difference, what is it 105 that didn't accept? Has that uh transaction concluded, the offers no longer open to them?
Yeah, that's right, Senator. So we did give um uh staff members a certain amount of time to uh consider their offers, and then if they hadn't responded by that date, then they said they ceased to be valid.
Okay. So then for the 713, uh can I ask what the total dollar value is of that?
Yeah, so Senator, that was uh 70 and a half a million.