The Greens advocate for an independent Parliamentary Budget Office to provide transparent, standardized cost assessments of political party commitments, arguing that current forecasts are often misleading and lack accountability, especially in infrastructure and taxation policies
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Well, this is about an effective democracy. And I think it again, if we just take a step back, this is ultimately about New Zealand's being able to have an independent, consistent way to check whether the numbers add up. And I hear you, in terms of having different economists come out of the woodwork and make different statements, but sometimes those statements are contradictory. And this, of course, is something which I believe ultimately will allow us to just run a ruler over the propositions from different political parties. And I think it gives us a bit of an insight into uh why certain political parties don't want this to happen in the first place because they don't want that transparency or that accountability. As I understand that, those are the coalition parties of the current national government. And this is why I've written to both Willis and Edmonds and asked all of us to knock our heads together and just get on with it.
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demanding uniform, comparable cost models across parties
Chlöe Swarbrick: Green Party co-leader on the Greens pushing for a Parliamentary Budget Office political aisleSpotted something wrong on this page? Report a correction.
