7 Dec 2024

Did Scrutiny Week live up to its name?

From Saturday Morning, 7:40 am on 7 December 2024
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Scrutiny Week at Parliament has just wrapped up, but was there much of that or more ducking and diving?

Department heads and ministers were grilled in 12 select committees, with police admitting they are not on track to meet the government's recruitment promise, in another session Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora was accused of 'cooking the books'.

Our political reporter Russell Palmer has been sitting in on some of the sessions and has done a Focus On Politics podcast on it.

He explained what it's all about.

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