Grant Robertson: Finance Minister defends Govt's multi-million dollar spend up on Three Water consultants
Grant Robertson is defending the Government's multi-million dollar spend-up on Three Waters consultants.
Newstalk ZB can reveal in the last financial year, $16 million has been paid to contractors working on the reforms.
National is questioning the bill, in particular the $15,000 spent on creating a job description for the yet-to-be named Chief Executive for the new Water Entity.
The Finance Minister told Mike HoskingThree Waters is a massive undertaking.
“We’re tlaking about something that’s going to be billions and billions of dollars of work over the next few years. It’s a specialty area…
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