Finance committee chair McClay gets revenue, associate health portfolios

Finance committee chair McClay gets revenue, associate health portfolios
June 10 (BusinessDesk) - National Party backbencher and chairman of Parliament’s finance and expenditure committee Todd McClay has picked up the revenue and associate health ministerial portfolios after Peter Dunne’s fall from grace last week. McClay will be sworn in as a minister outside Cabinet tomorrow, Prime Minister John Key said in a statement. The associate conservation role held by Dunne will be discontinued, and those responsibilities picked up by Conservation Minister Nick Smith. “I look forward to welcoming Mr McClay to the exec...