M.P. seeks details on A.C.C. trips

Press, 28 July 1987, Page 34

M.P. seeks details on A.C.C. trips

PA Wellington Accident Compensation Corporation directors have made overseas trips on an average of once

every 3 l / 2 weeks in the last two years, a Democratic member of Parliament said. Acting on “confidential information from inside the corporation,” Mr Garry Knapp, member of Parliament for East Coast Bays, was seeking details of all overseas travel of A.C.C. management and directors in the last two years. “The result was a staggering list of 27 international visits of varying duration and location,” Mr Knapp said. “That represents an overseas trip every three weeks and a half.”

A.C.C. management should explain why the trips were necessary, what they cost, and what the benefits were “to those New Zealanders paying the A.C.C. levy,” he said. “At a time when the business houses are being asked to pay staggering increases in levies, this extravagant behaviour of management and directors is not acceptable.” Mr Knapp said he would seek a Ministerial inquiry at the first opportunity.