A heated debate at Parliament’s finance and expenditure committee saw Finance Minister Nicola Willis accuse Labour MP Deborah Russell of promoting conspiracy theories, sparking a clash over government financial accountability.
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Probably not T V and Z unless they own property. So in my time working as a negotiator for the Office of Treaty Settlements, one of the abilities of that EWE can do is I think it's pretty sure it's section 27 that you can place a covenant over a state-owned asset. And so that's unable to be sold uh or anything, you know, transferred uh until you're engaged with that EWE, and that would prevent. So I think you need some treasury advice on first of all, does it have a covenant on it uh or not? And also what happens if you lift that or go around that. So in order to not make decisions that further expose our country to risk, we want to be able to do all of that homework to make sure it's in place.
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