11-12-2024, 02:58 PM
To quote Craig Renney on Bluesky:
"Today’s announcement by the Minister of Finance means we don't know:
- where replacement ferries are coming from
- how much they will cost
- who will pay for them
- how the port infrastructure will be delivered,
- the fiscal or economic impact...
...We don’t have a yard to build the ships, nor do we have a ship design. We don’t know what infrastructure will be needed. We don’t know what it will cost to cancel the existing order. We know little more than when the government cancelled IREX
...Crucially, the decision to kick the can down the road means that no ferry costs will be in the government books when they are made public next week - making them look better. Future governments will have to carry the costs for the lack of a decision today.
...Workers on the Cook Strait ferries, service users, and New Zealanders all deserve better than this. This is a plan to have a plan. The ferries are reaching the end of their service life, yet we have been given another working group and another delay instead of clarity"
"Today’s announcement by the Minister of Finance means we don't know:
- where replacement ferries are coming from
- how much they will cost
- who will pay for them
- how the port infrastructure will be delivered,
- the fiscal or economic impact...
...We don’t have a yard to build the ships, nor do we have a ship design. We don’t know what infrastructure will be needed. We don’t know what it will cost to cancel the existing order. We know little more than when the government cancelled IREX
...Crucially, the decision to kick the can down the road means that no ferry costs will be in the government books when they are made public next week - making them look better. Future governments will have to carry the costs for the lack of a decision today.
...Workers on the Cook Strait ferries, service users, and New Zealanders all deserve better than this. This is a plan to have a plan. The ferries are reaching the end of their service life, yet we have been given another working group and another delay instead of clarity"