Fire and Emergency<\/a> was \u201ca shocker\u201d at asset management.<\/p>\n\u201cThey barely know what they own.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he had been \u201cpushing\u201d Fire and Emergency and the minister in charge, Brooke van Velden, for answers about replacing Hutt City Fire Station.<\/p>\n
\u201cI get crickets in response,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201c[Fire and Emergency] governance and management have no idea what they are doing and the Hutt is being left out. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m furious about it and I\u2019m pushing hard … because we do need a new fire station there. I\u2019m sick of being told \u2018we are working on a business case \u2013 blah, blah, blah\u2019. It\u2019s all just \u2018blah, blah, blah\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luxon claimed Fire and Emergency had sufficient revenue but had done \u201cdumb\u201d things with its money.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn Fenz, let me say a few things. You\u2019ve got a management team with a huge amount of revenue and corporate levies off commercial buildings and has had plenty of money and done dumb things with it. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo just hang five \u2013 because we are also thinking very clearly about Fenz. There is a number of ideas … we are working on something and I hope we will be able to talk about it as our policy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fire and Emergency said it could not provide comment by deadline.<\/p>\n
Julia Gabel is a Wellington-based political reporter. She joined the Herald in 2020 and has most recently focused on data journalism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But when his speech ended, Luxon\u2019s optimism was juxtaposed with the harsh realities of Kiwis still doing it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12067,534,95,1344,20217,3276,16426,18205,3054,44295,15974,2079,49947,1043,16427,3556,111,43,139,69,1118,72024,7254,107023,1240,8262,80],"class_list":["post-573047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-aimed","tag-amid","tag-and","tag-attacked","tag-bishop","tag-chris","tag-christopher","tag-considers","tag-criticism","tag-developing","tag-emergency","tag-fire","tag-hutt","tag-leadership","tag-luxon","tag-national","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-organisations","tag-policy","tag-signalled","tag-south","tag-spending","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573047","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=573047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}