Immigration Minister Erica Stanford reveals that a multi-million-dollar biometrics project failed due to misleading information, scope changes, and poor business cases, leading to a call for a public service investigation, while also announcing new regulatory measures to limit海外g
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Um and then um the threshold, of course, to uh target to cabinet uh is um under 40 million dollars, so she could have taken it to cabinet then, but uh the cost uh in March she was told had increased to 40 million dollars. Um, and uh then it was uh in a different sort of uh case, it would have to go to cabinet for approval at that sort of money. But um what I can't quite understand is how was she misled? I mean, she had been briefed last year on it. She knew the cost rises were going on, but I understand that uh people that did raise concerns were moved on, and uh clearly that's uh a bit of a problem. And certainly it's a problem for Winston Peters, but then uh he has a mission here. He's never liked Immigration New Zealand uh for obvious reasons because he's never liked immigration policies uh of our governments and um he says the people involved in this uh should have been jailed, and like you, I'm not sure what the offence would be.
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misrepresentation of rising costs and project viability
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