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'Hopeless': Former Minister says he'd fire the Ihumātao committee 'immediately'

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Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 22 Oct 2024, 8:58am
The Government announced in December 2020 the land at Ihumātao would be bought from Fletcher Building for $29.9m and held by the Crown. Photo / Dean Purcell
The Government announced in December 2020 the land at Ihumātao would be bought from Fletcher Building for $29.9m and held by the Crown. Photo / Dean Purcell

'Hopeless': Former Minister says he'd fire the Ihumātao committee 'immediately'

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Tue, 22 Oct 2024, 8:58am

A former Minister holds the view that the Ihumātao committee's achieved nothing.  

Documents seen under the Official Information Act show that Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka considered dissolving the committee. 

It's now been almost four years since the previous Labour Government supported the sale of the land, after controversial protests.   

Former Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson told Mike Hosking all this group is capable of doing is talking.    

He says he wouldn't give them an ultimatum, he'd just boot them now. 

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