That's a fantastic deep dive into the report. I seen to remember that the HNZ board flagged to Treasury that there would be a deficit in advance of the deficit but there was some disconnect with Willis not heeding the warning. But that may be misremembered. I thought it was that event that led to Lester Levy being appointed. There's so much context missing in the Delloite report and I really appreciate you doing the hard yards and making it easy to digest.
Once again, the Ferry cancellation is another, the present government has undone cost saving moves by the previous government before those moves could bear fruit. Another example is the cancellation by National (Bill English) of the decision by Labour to not renew the Comalco electricity contract. Cancellation would have created a surplus of hydro electricity leading to reduction of the household power bill and stopped the pernicious government backed programme to promote solar power panels on everyone's roof
Great job Tui, I haven’t had the bandwidth to keep up with this level of detail, and from the TWO response to this report and acceptance of findings from the commissioner, you get the set piece of issue “independently “ identified and change process engaged that government wanted. The issues with payroll processing were well known to previous board and predate the centralisation and there was a plan of action underway that was stopped, exacerbating the situation for longer and actively making it worse. Health has always overspent, and most DHBs had deficits that were written off as part of the centralisation, I can’t reference to this at the moment from my phone but this is the hangover from previous underfunding that reset the clock with TWO. I will try and read the reports later !
Thanks Dave, your comment alone shows how poorly Deloitte may have conducted this review then - on top of my cursory review and own opinions. What a disappointment, and shouldn't be forgotten.
👀 Wonder how much they were paid to produce something that seems sub par if it doesn't even allow for obvious context 🤷 All the things you raised were in the public domain (IT, payroll, increased number of nurses needing paid...) Seems like a lack of professional rigour at 1st glance ⁉️
Deloitte is being pursued in several overseas jurisdictions as we speak. In NZ they are above the law. Who audits the auditor? The sad fact is no-one (except MT today) has oversight of auditors at that level. Believe me I've made 3 formal complaints to the Auditor General over past years concerning the audits of our local electricity trust. Irrefutable errors by the Trust, such as condoning grants and loans $250k to a trustee mistakenly applying company law instead of trust law. The crimes of the Trust, which also impacts Wairoa, are so great they no longer qualify as crimes - to paraphrase Zola
Is it a lack of integrity? Or just good old corruption? Again.
I suspect the actual Terms of Reference and the Scope of the report were probably established in an “off the record” conversation… in a similar manner as it was between Chris Bishop and Bill English for KO.
That's a fantastic deep dive into the report. I seen to remember that the HNZ board flagged to Treasury that there would be a deficit in advance of the deficit but there was some disconnect with Willis not heeding the warning. But that may be misremembered. I thought it was that event that led to Lester Levy being appointed. There's so much context missing in the Delloite report and I really appreciate you doing the hard yards and making it easy to digest.
Very welcome, as always, Victoria :-)
Once again, the Ferry cancellation is another, the present government has undone cost saving moves by the previous government before those moves could bear fruit. Another example is the cancellation by National (Bill English) of the decision by Labour to not renew the Comalco electricity contract. Cancellation would have created a surplus of hydro electricity leading to reduction of the household power bill and stopped the pernicious government backed programme to promote solar power panels on everyone's roof
Great job Tui, I haven’t had the bandwidth to keep up with this level of detail, and from the TWO response to this report and acceptance of findings from the commissioner, you get the set piece of issue “independently “ identified and change process engaged that government wanted. The issues with payroll processing were well known to previous board and predate the centralisation and there was a plan of action underway that was stopped, exacerbating the situation for longer and actively making it worse. Health has always overspent, and most DHBs had deficits that were written off as part of the centralisation, I can’t reference to this at the moment from my phone but this is the hangover from previous underfunding that reset the clock with TWO. I will try and read the reports later !
Thanks Dave, your comment alone shows how poorly Deloitte may have conducted this review then - on top of my cursory review and own opinions. What a disappointment, and shouldn't be forgotten.
👀 Wonder how much they were paid to produce something that seems sub par if it doesn't even allow for obvious context 🤷 All the things you raised were in the public domain (IT, payroll, increased number of nurses needing paid...) Seems like a lack of professional rigour at 1st glance ⁉️
That is my impression and hence my opinion piece above - the report brought up so many questions for me personally.
Deloitte is being pursued in several overseas jurisdictions as we speak. In NZ they are above the law. Who audits the auditor? The sad fact is no-one (except MT today) has oversight of auditors at that level. Believe me I've made 3 formal complaints to the Auditor General over past years concerning the audits of our local electricity trust. Irrefutable errors by the Trust, such as condoning grants and loans $250k to a trustee mistakenly applying company law instead of trust law. The crimes of the Trust, which also impacts Wairoa, are so great they no longer qualify as crimes - to paraphrase Zola
Excellent piece of writing MT.
Is it a lack of integrity? Or just good old corruption? Again.
I suspect the actual Terms of Reference and the Scope of the report were probably established in an “off the record” conversation… in a similar manner as it was between Chris Bishop and Bill English for KO.
Either way, it is simply bullshit. 🤬