Andrew Dickens: Emergency housing issues another example of public sector failure
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The sorry saga of New Zealand’s use of motel units as emergency housing stuttered on today.
This time it was Ministry of Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni waffling away about how much wrap around care is provided to those in the housing.
Asked about the cost of damage to the units caused by tenants she claimed it was impossible to calculate as the MSD accounting systems were, quote, “too clunky”.
This spurred a flurry of angry incredulous texts and calls regarding what seemed to be a laissez faire attitude towards taxpayers money. One texter asked if MSD had heard of Excel or any other proprietary applications. Landlords always know exactly how much money has been spent on repairs. It’s their money after all and it’s tax deductible maintenance.
Andrew Dickens: Ministry of Health must shoulder the blame for Covid failures
Ashley Bloomfield is the Director-General of Health. (Photo / NZ Herald)
Andrew Dickens: Ministry of Health must shoulder the blame for Covid failures Mon, 19 Apr 2021, 1:35PM
Listening to the blamestorm over MIQ last week I thought the universe had tipped on its axis.
There was our poverty defeating socialist Prime Minister, punching down on a minimum wage frontline worker and bemoaning his lack of accountability and accusing him of lying..
Meanwhile, a cohort of neo-liberal, conservative right wingers were busy defending the honour of the man because he was among our most vulnerable who was being attacked by our most powerful.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Fran O Sullivan: Business knocking on Jacinda Ardern s door
3 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Rob Campbell, chairman of SkyCity, Tourism Holdings, Summerset and Chancellor of Auckland University of Technology. Photo / Supplied
Rob Campbell, chairman of SkyCity, Tourism Holdings, Summerset and Chancellor of Auckland University of Technology. Photo / Supplied
OPINION:
How many times do prominent company chairs and chief executives have to put their hands up and ask to be taken into the inner sanctum on the fight against Covid-19 before Jacinda Ardern listens?
The Prime Minister has not lost the boardroom .
But when five senior chairs of major NZX companies called for more openness from the Government on its plan for getting New Zealand to Covid normal , she should be aware they would have carefully weighed the potential for prime ministerial blowback before going public.
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