Finance Minister Grant Robertson speaks to media after his pre-Budget speech in Auckland on Monday.
OPINION: You know there’s a problem when even the accounting industry is feeling the effect of our labour and supply constraints. At a pre-budget speech by Grant Robertson to a business audience in Auckland this week a member of the audience got up to ask if something could be done about the almost-chronic skills shortages now hitting a variety of industries. “We’re finding accountants are hard to get, data analysts are hard to get, builders and construction people are hard to get, so it’s across the board,” one person in the audience told Robertson.