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Regional Development Fund recipe for pork-barrelling
Regional Development Fund recipe for pork-barrelling
24 October 2017 FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
In response to the
just announced $1 billion per year “Regional Development
Fund” as part of the Labour-NZ First coalition agreement,
Jordan Williams, Executive Director of the Taxpayers’
Union said:
“We’ll be keeping a very close eye on this fund to ensure that economic rigour – cost benefit analysis and value for money – is prioritised over political expediency.”
“Without discipline and oversight, ‘economic development’ very quickly turns into pork-barrelling and corporate welfare. Of course, this was the very thing Labour rightly accused the National-led Government of, when it came to regional farming and irrigation initiatives.”
ENDS
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