John MacDonald: Performance pay's no bonus for the public sector

I feel really uncomfortable about the idea of public sector bosses getting performance pay.

Not that the Government is going to care too much about that, because it’s confirmed that, from the middle of next year, that’s what’s going to be happening.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: I approve of performance pay for the public sector

On principle, I like Nicola Willis' idea of performance pay for the chief executives in the public sector.

It's actually not a new idea, we were doing it until Jacinda's lot got in and Chris Hipkins, the then-relevant minister, cancelled it.

And it was pretty generous, up 15 percent on top of base pay. Since some of those guys in the public sector get paid close to $700,00 a year, that's another $100,000 if they strike their targets.