Clare Curran folds under scrutiny of her use of a personal email account to conduct Government Business. / Parliament TV
Broadcasting Minister Clare Curran is not in danger of being fired, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.
Ardern, speaking to Newstalk ZB's Chris Lynch this morning, said she had not considered firing Curran over a series of stumbles in recent times.
"No, because I think she's paid her price. I havehuge expectations of my ministers and those in the ministry but I also accept from time to time they will also have bad days.
"I have to keep in mind that we do want to make sure that we don't set the bar so high that you can't have a situation where you show a bit of human frailty and lose your job over it," Ardern said.
The minister stumbled repeatedly in her answers to questions from the Opposition about her use of a personal email account for government business.
That came after her demotion from the Cabinet and the loss of two portfolios following revelations she failed to follow the proper process over a Beehive meeting with entrepreneur Derek Handley. That came after her coffee meeting with former RNZ boss Carol Hirschfeld which resulted in Hirschfeld losing her job.
Ardern said she had spoken to Curran about the past couple of days, "what's been going on for her".
