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Ryan Bridge: Should we be worried about the business of business cases?
ACT's insistence that the Waikato University doctors school cost was out of whack and based on a poor quality business case seems to have been proven correct.
Why else would the cost to the taxpayer has shrunk by $200 million? He says it was going to cost us $280 million.
If he was right, and he's one guy at the cabinet table, how many other business cases don't stack up?
There's an entire lucrative business case industry in Wellington. Some of this work is done in-house by government departments, but much of it is outsourced to the private sector.
Can we trust these reports?
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