Of the disestablished roles, 19 were vacant. Twenty-six staff had found new roles in the council. “Those 11 people [who took redundancy] didn’t have a direct match to a job. They were legally entitled to take redundancy, and that’s the choice they made.” STUFF Environment Minister David Parker explains how the Resource Management Act will be reworked into three different parts. She said the world was changing, and things such as the declaration of a climate emergency and a housing crisis had shifted the council’s priorities. New roles had been made in several areas such as waste and recycling, information technology and subdivision engineers.