There is a ‘massive risk’ the Government’s reform is not going to be delivered, says Civil Contractors NZ chief executive Alan Pollard.
Businesses welcome the Government's priorities as PM confirms this year's Budget won't be a lolly scramble.
Net core Crown debt was $2.1 billion lower than expected.
Its role is to give advice to ensure NZ’s investments deliver real outcomes.
Unions, in response, will protest the ‘Government’s attack on women and the destruction of progress on pay equity’ at Parliament this afternoon.
S&P says councils are told to do more infrastructure spending but get less support.
‘We don’t need more ministers, we need fewer,’ he says.
It often provides irrelevant and meaningless information, says the Treasury.
Nicola Willis says the Government cannot keep racking up big debts.
KiwiRail shares had to be transferred to the new Rail minister, while ministers told to seek assurances from KiwiRail about its intention to keep servicing the Cook Strait ferries.