MBIE finds another $6 million!

The Post reports:

The cost of a bungled immigration IT project has blown out, and MBIE can’t guarantee the taxpayer-funded bill won’t climb even higher. …

Stanford said her office had identified financial information provided by MBIE that “could not be correct” earlier this week.

So it was the Minister’s office that identified the error, not MBIE itself. Very slack.

She called Blakeley in for a ‘please explain’ on Tuesday afternoon, who advised her a further $6m in associated project costs had been identified.

“He cannot be confident this further $6 million represents the full extent of expenditure on the BCU and he has made the decision to commission an independent financial audit.

“In close consultation with Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis, we have referred this matter to both the Michael Heron inquiry into the BCU project and the Public Service Commissioner, as we consider it raises significant questions regarding MBIE’s financial controls more generally.”

We must surely be getting close to the stage where someone has to resign??