Wellington Mayor Andrew Little expresses concern over significant pay increases for the new Tia Ki Wai water entity, questioning the fairness of high salaries amid rising infrastructure costs and calls for equitable water pricing and better public service representation.
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Yeah, I know that's going to be the $64,000 or $640,000 question depending on how you look at it. There's always, you know, we know, we can say with a degree of confidence that for the last 30, 40 years water assets haven't been well managed, they haven't been maintained properly, all that sort of stuff, investment's been a bit patchy. And quite a bit of money has gone into fixing them up over the last few years, but there's still plenty more to do. So they've got their work cut out for them, there's no question about it. But at the end of the day too, they are effectively a public entity. They're owned by five councils who get most of their income from rate payers and residents, and therefore these guys are in the public sector. So there does have to be some recognition that... You know, and they're a monopoly too. They're not competing with any other business. So there does have to be some recognition of all that. And so I do just wonder whether the incomes are slightly overpriced.
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