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English sets up infrastructure board to decide on 20 year plan
Infrastructure and Finance Minister Bill English announced the formation of an independent national infrastructure advisory board, charged with helping to formulate a 20 year national infrastructure plan by the end of this year. Rod Carr will chair the new board. Other members are Ron Carter, Lindsay Crossen, Arthur Grimes, Terence Heiler, Rob McLeod, John Rae and Alex Sundakov. English said the plan would be aimed at identifying emerging bottlenecks and investment gaps in New Zealand's infrastructure. The board will also provide advice to Treasury's National Infrastructure Unit. "A key role will be to engage with the private sector, local government and other stakeholders, about regulatory barriers that are slowing investment and opportunities for partnership," English said. "As well as advising on new investments it is equally important that the public sector focuses on improving its management of the existing asset base. I'm sure this group will be a rich source of insight as the government implements its plan to improve New Zealand's roads, broadband and electricity supply," he said. Here is the full release on the beehive website.
How much will this board
How much will this board cost?
You mean 'to run,' or
You mean 'to run,' or 'the country,' Wally?
Yeah, could be both!
Yeah, could be both!
Just another quango to keep
Just another quango to keep the middle classes employed.
All working within the current
All working within the current failing economic paradigm to provide a rich source of insight as the government implements its pre-determined plan to improve New Zealand.
When I do not recognise
When I do not recognise any of the names on a newly created "Board" I may be more hopeful of some new thinking and progress to happen rather than recycled ideas to eventuate.
Although in this case the names provide a glimmer of hope?
It would be interesting to
It would be interesting to know the affilliations of these board members. How impartial will they be if the companies that they are associated with, benefit substantially from projects that they recommend.
One of the major tasks
One of the major tasks will be the fight against the effects of climate changes.
bjr A glimmer of hope
bjr
A glimmer of hope is all you will see from this group.
They are solely in place to facilitate and ratify Public Private Partnerships (PPP's). A disastrous policy undertaken and executed by the current British Labour Government.
The legacy there is a mountain of off-balance sheet taxpayer liabilities - unreported but nonetheless requiring never ending lease like liabilities for no increase in efficiency as promised at the outset.
The reported public debt books look good but not the actual cash flow wealth transfers from the public to the private sector.
Just an under hand way of getting the corporate sector on the socialist Work and Income style drip feed dressed up as capitalism.
What do they say about pigs with lipstick?
3 Professional Engineers out of
3 Professional Engineers out of 8 (based on my quick google), I'm pretty happy with that (as an engineer).
Shame its headed up by a Lawyer though! :)
I think this is a great idea and will help to give confidence to developers, investors, and businesses when they are making investment decisions. It will also help to give confidence to the construction industry if they have a better idea of forward workloads that dont get overturned by election promises etc. This could also help NZ manage skill shortages by identifying them with a sufficient lead time to do something about them.
"Finance Minister Bill English and
"Finance Minister Bill English and Revenue Minister Peter Dunne today welcomed the establishment of a Tax Working Group"
and
"Infrastructure and Finance Minister Bill English announced the formation of an independent national infrastructure advisory board"
What's next? how about a special committee to help the govt formulate a working group which will be tasked with identifying areas of special interest that require the establishment of special committees to determine who to appoint to a series of independent national working groups!
Bonds, bonds, bonds and Bankers,
Bonds, bonds, bonds and Bankers, bankers everywhere.
BJR - some of you guys really do make it oh so easy for them by looking at the world through a straw, try moving your eyes and peering round the side for a change.
you said - When I do not recognise any of the names on a newly created "Board" I may be more hopeful of some new thinking and progress to happen rather than recycled ideas to eventuate.
Although in this case the names provide a glimmer of hope? -
Why do you not simply google these peoples names and see what you can find of their background. You can generally come up with an amazing ammount of info in minutes. These people are nothing "new", most every committee or board that the National Party have have put in place are national asset sales people from the Douglas/ Richardson era(the time we were in receivership). We have been double played by these people. Many of them have from behind the diplomatic curtain just been involved in the processes that have seen us rack up an unsustainable current account balance and are now being appointed back in the front office to act as receivers for our creditors. Have a look below at what it took me all of 15 mins to find. If you folks out there are not starting to get the picture we are done and dusted.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0905/S00666.htm
http://www.unlimited.co.nz/unlimited.nsf/0/8F3D7C445F7593BFCC256DA20076C...
http://www.cecc.org.nz/main/rod_carr/
and just incase you have not already read the heads up on the institutions these men were trained to serve, here they are from men who have been at the very top of those institutions trying to inject some decency and having failed are now telling all;
http://www.newint.org/features/2004/03/01/imf-failure/
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200905/imf-advice