Minister rejects talk of cuts
By
OLIVER RIDDELL
in Wellington
The budget of the Conservation Department will not be cut as a result of a consultant’s report, according to the Minister of Conservation, Mr Woollaston.
He repudiated suggestions that the budget would be cut as a result of the Coopers and Lybrand review.
Cutting the budget did not follow from the review. It had been about internal reorganisation to carry out Government conservation policies more effectively. Coopers and Lybrand had identified sums of money that they considered could be reallocated as a result of a better administrative structure, Mr Woollaston said.
The report said that these were not sums which could be cut from the vote.
In other areas the report had been overly optimistic on the sums available from reorganisation. For example, no account had been taken of the costs of restructuring. It was wrong, as had been reported, that there could be cuts of up to $3B million. The report had identified moneys that could be reallocated, and not inferred that there was surplus funding in conservation.
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