$4,000 a person consultation
A meeting in Wanganui on aquaculture cost $20,000 – and five people turned up. How do you spend $20,000 on a meeting with five people?
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September 20th, 2007 at 7:46 am
This is typical govt wastage – there is no way this would be tolerated in a business and if it was that business would, rightly, go under. It just goes to show the only true accountability comes from the market.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:58 am
First you have to be a socialist. Everything flows from there.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:10 am
Must have been an awesome kai! Parekura will have been really hoha to have missed out on that one!!!
September 20th, 2007 at 8:18 am
But remember all and repeat slowly in time with me.
“There is no waste in the public sector”
September 20th, 2007 at 8:37 am
Yeah, there is no waist in the public sector because its blown out after the awesome kai aka Horomia.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Yeah, but at least he won the battle with anorexia.
September 20th, 2007 at 9:16 am
Yes Whaleoil, we are so blessed with our pollies. If they were anorexic they wouldn’t have the ability to eat their way through the junkets and think of the terrible waste biffing all the unused kai afterwards.
They’d also be blown into traffic by Wellington’s gales which would cause all kinds of problems for the public. There would be traffic jams as people with better things to do found themselves drawn to cruising past parliamentry buildings…
September 20th, 2007 at 9:39 am
Linda has nutshelled it. An approach that applies to just about every damn sorry state of affairs that exists in this miserable little soviet backwater.
September 20th, 2007 at 10:17 am
How do you spend someone else’s money?
Question answered.
Most amazing is that beyond a 1 day bleat nothing changes because you all love it.
September 20th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Just watch the headlines if someone decides to take a chance in aquaculture and looks to set up a business. There will be many cries from local iwi with statements like “Why weren’t local Maori consulted , wheres the consultation”. So what would these PC clowns do?. Another round of meetings will be the answer. Fuck, this is a sad pathetic country.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
OMG the revenue, the revenue……I so hope they book with me next time. $20k spend with only 5 pax F & B, bring it on!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 20th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Well you have to spread the message somehow…that 20% (I think) of the aquaculture quota is reserved for iwi (elite) and if they dont take it up they get $millions in “compensation”!!!!
You only need a few elite at the meetings – the knowledge will trickle down even if the profits don’t.
September 20th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
How do you spend $20,000 on a meeting with five people?
Supply lots of alcohol and drink till you drop.