{"id":538502,"date":"2026-07-22T11:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/538502\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T11:36:12","slug":"national-mp-tim-costley-calls-on-fire-and-emergency-boss-to-front-up-after-manager-quits-amid-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/538502\/","title":{"rendered":"National MP Tim Costley calls on Fire and Emergency boss to \u2018front up\u2019 after manager quits amid inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gregory said Sinclair didn\u2019t receive \u201cany extra remunerations\u201d, but he failed to answer questions about Moran. <\/p>\n

He was also unable to answer whether Moran served his full notice period before leaving.<\/p>\n

The committee said it had hoped to speak to Moran in Monday\u2019s hearing before the \u201csurprise\u201d resignation.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Herald on Tuesday, Costley said it was another example of Fire and Emergency creating \u201cmore questions than it gives answers\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"NationalNational MP for \u014ctaki and governance and administration committee deputy chairman Tim Costley. Photo \/ Mark Mitchell<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve heard a lot of concern from firefighters around the country about that individual [Moran], about their background prior to arriving at Fire and Emergency and then the work they had done within Fire and Emergency. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never spoken to them and I haven\u2019t had the chance to ask them questions \u2026 I think it would be wholly unpopular across the country if it turned out they had been given an exit package. <\/p>\n

\u201cWere they effectively asked to leave by Fire and Emergency and given a payout to send them on their way? Did they choose to jump before they got pushed but were given some money? If they weren\u2019t given any extra money, why didn\u2019t they just come out and say that?\u201d<\/p>\n

Costley said Moran and Sinclair, who were responsible for Fire and Emergency\u2019s fleet during the inquiry, \u201cnever once came to any of these hearings\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s some genuine questions that could be put to the chief executive there and he needs to front up and answer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FireFire and Emergency New Zealand executives Megan Stiffler (from left), Kerry Gregory and Darryl Purdy during Monday’s select committee hearing. Photo \/ NZ Parliament<\/p>\n

Costley said the key takeaways after Monday\u2019s final hearing include:<\/p>\n

Fire and Emergency ordered 30 fire engines seven years ago, but none are currently in use because of various issues.It selected British company Angloco to build those but had not trialled any of the engines.It paid for two prototype appliances from two different companies but didn\u2019t test them.Twelve of those 30 engines have not been accepted by Fire and Emergency but it couldn\u2019t tell the committee why.Several aerial trucks passed Fire and Emergency\u2019s final inspection in July 2025, but \u201chere we are a year later, they\u2019re still doing more final inspections\u201d. It created a four-year programme of \u201cchanging how they did procurement\u201d before abandoning it in year four.<\/p>\n

Costley also questioned if Fire and Emergency\u2019s board had been doing its job.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe board, with all these issues about, for example, the 30 fire trucks that were meant to be coming from the UK, since 2023 have not asked one single question about them. There is no evidence to show that they\u2019ve even discussed this in any board meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s a genuine question as to what the board have been doing and if they have the right people and the right skills and experience on that board moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the inquiry began, former chairwoman Rebecca Keoghan left the board and was replaced by ex-Watercare head Raveen Jaduram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gregory said Sinclair didn\u2019t receive \u201cany extra remunerations\u201d, but he failed to answer questions about Moran. He was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1443,74,534,95,4282,1559,115,265039,15974,2079,28828,1668,37367,42,37601,296,93,6368,3556,43,90,1523,76331,17146,106487,3044,13672,46001,61,40,38,41,39,810,2963],"class_list":["post-538502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-about","tag-after","tag-amid","tag-and","tag-boss","tag-called","tag-calls","tag-costley","tag-emergency","tag-fire","tag-fleet","tag-front","tag-frustrated","tag-headlines","tag-inquiry","tag-into","tag-manager","tag-mp","tag-national","tag-news","tag-on","tag-over","tag-parliamentary","tag-questions","tag-quits","tag-resignation","tag-state","tag-tim","tag-to","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-up","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}