Post by Kiwi Frontline on Sept 30, 2021 4:10:05 GMT 12
THREE WATERS REFORM PROCESS 'NOT THE NEW ZEALAND WAY'
The Government’s proposed three waters reform programme is a “strongly politically-motivated approach” to centralise core functions, says experienced company director John Palmer.
“It is obvious that the solution in broad terms has been designed politically, to satisfy the Government’s intent of centralising core functions, to appeal to Māori interests and pressure from the Māori caucus, and then finding a mechanism to fit that brief,” Palmer said.
“What is a better way of delivering it than having a bureaucracy in Wellington of multiple layers that is both messy and unclear, and effectively delivers control of all of the future of water to mana whenua, and I think that is deliberate, and I think that is wrong.”.....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/126530074/three-waters-reform-process-not-the-new-zealand-way
The Government’s proposed three waters reform programme is a “strongly politically-motivated approach” to centralise core functions, says experienced company director John Palmer.
“It is obvious that the solution in broad terms has been designed politically, to satisfy the Government’s intent of centralising core functions, to appeal to Māori interests and pressure from the Māori caucus, and then finding a mechanism to fit that brief,” Palmer said.
“What is a better way of delivering it than having a bureaucracy in Wellington of multiple layers that is both messy and unclear, and effectively delivers control of all of the future of water to mana whenua, and I think that is deliberate, and I think that is wrong.”.....
www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/126530074/three-waters-reform-process-not-the-new-zealand-way