Apology to Hon Peter Dunne

The Taxpayers’ Union wishes to apologise to Hon. Peter Dunne, in response to his criticism of the Taxpayers’ Union for missing an example of government waste in yesterday’s edition of the Dominion Post. Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director, Jordan Williams, says:

“Most of our staff were in Auckland yesterday for the launch of, The Taniwha Tax: Briefing paper on Auckland Council’s new Mana Whena rules. Mr Dunne was right to point out that we did indeed miss this outrageous example of waste by the Parliamentary Service. We thank him for bringing it to the public's attention.”

“We strongly encourage Mr Dunne to donate to the Taxpayers’ Union via our website so that we can have more resources to discover and expose this sort of Government waste. Alternatively, rather than issuing a media release criticising the Union, Mr Dunne may wish to first alert us via our confidential tip line next time he wants us to highlight an example of the Government wasting precious taxpayer money."

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