Many organisations would benefit by having public holiday information injected automatically into their data environments. The request is for an interface that provides public holiday facts (date, region, name, date of observance) for last 3 calendar years, current calendar year, and next calendar year. This would preferentially be in a structured form, such as JSON, CSV, or even iCalendar. An example of this capability for Australia is here: https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-dga-b1bc6077-dadd-4f61-9f8c-002ab2cdff10/details?q= NOTES: Your catalogue entry at https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/public-holidays points to stale (bad) data and is not in a machine accessible form. The pdf is out of date; the ics is a dead link. This information is currently published by both MBIE (although only up to current year https://www.employment.govt.nz/leave-and-holidays/public-holidays/public-holidays-and-anniversary-dates/) and Central Govt (https://www.govt.nz/browse/work/public-holidays-and-work/public-holidays-and-anniversary-dates/).

Being able to maintain state and schedules within systems in alignment with related human processes (such as people availability and scheduling, external party availability, pricing differentials (c.f. overtime)) and so on.

Having an authoritative source of truth for Public Holidays, rather than using sources with unknown provenance.