The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union criticizes the pay increases for Wellington’s new water entity leadership, highlighting a stark contrast between soaring water bills for households and extravagant executive salaries, while questioning the legitimacy of pay decisions made througha
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Well, ultimately it'll be the councils who actually set the pay because ultimately Wellington Water is now, or Te Akiwai as they call it, Wellington Water is a wholly owned company of the councils and they're off the, you know, the assets have been transferred into the entity. And the whole point of it is to get, frankly, politicians away from deciding where the investment goes because they've been absolutely useless over 20, 30 years. That's the reason why we're dealing with. dealing with this mess in Wellington in the first place is because successive politicians you know like Tamitha Paul and others have diverted money into cycle ways and away from you know core infrastructure so but you know goodness me that won't go down well particularly after the Maui Point disaster which obviously we're still you know still waiting for the inquiry into.
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