The Taxpayers' Union, through spokesperson Tori Ralph, calls for mandatory cost-benefit analysis in public infrastructure projects to ensure taxpayer value, citing inadequate use of such analysis across government agencies and potential waste in spending.
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Now onto something else altogether. Turns out a third of government agencies use cost benefit analysis when planning their projects. That's not a good thing, by the way. It's only a third. Now, this is according to a report from engineering firm WSP and also the Helen Clark Foundation. And now the taxpayers' union's jumped on this and is calling for the analysis to be mandatory. Spokesperson Tori Ralph is with us now. Hello. Now we can't be talking about all government departments, right? Because not all government departments need to do cost-benefit analysis, do they?
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