National's Election Hoarding's 10

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It wasn't that long ago when National's State Services Minister Tony Ryall was insisting that National has capped, not cut, funding for core public services. 

However the State Services Commission's annual Human Resource Capability Survey (PDF) released last month showed that 959 positions were lost in the past year alone.

Yesterday Tony Ryall said a further $240 million a year could be cut from the public services budget.