
When the Office of the Auditor General focused its attention on the $640 million pot of Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) money that was turned to Covid-19 response purposes in 2020 it found a dog’s breakfast.
The so-called “reset” was designed to be implemented quickly, during a pandemic, and when Kānoa (then called the Provincial Development Unit), the division of the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) responsible for the fund, was short-staffed.
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