Govt blames Auckland for RWC fiasco

i think the rate payers should pay!

Do the CHCH council issue concents/permits to do repairs/rebuilds in RED Zone.
If not how can insurance comps legally pay out for repairs if the work is not permitted.

national its time you took some of that personal responsibility you love to preach at others your self . they cant blame labour for this one , they just cant do anything right an come up with the goods . even turning the rwc into just a photp op fest for the nats . tell one success since the nats got elected ? .

David and Mika i couldn't agree more. I was sickened by Cambell and our family will not watch him again. Am so sick of the negative reporting! Leave the bitching and moaning till after the world cup lets focus on the positive and back/ promote NZ . GO ALL BLACKS !!!

It was an awesome event from where I was sitting. Lets stop the finger pointing because you point 1 finger at someone, there will always be 3 more pointing back at you. We saw the issues, now lets work together and put better processes in place. 6 years, 10 years or 2 years, nobody expected this amount of people so learn from it and work together to fix it. Get on with it and give our manuhiri an awesome time in Aotearoa. Auckland, stay home and watch it on TV if you have to.

auckland council and thick len brown and those overpaid utterly useless counselors and m.p's had 6 years to get this right and failed epically of course we wont see any resignations or admittance of guilt from any of them and dont dare auckland council try and pass on any reimbursement on to us the rate payers you failed misrably dip into your own fat pockets

John. It is unfortunate that you have decided to miss lead the public on this issue, it is becoming a pattern with you. What McCully said is this "Auckland City needs his special WRC powers to issue consents in time for the following weekend" That's all. They want the consents, you are trying to pit to men against each other for ratings, so sad. He also said "he accepts responsibility". Stop the childish reporting, it makes you look stupid.

I don't know if anyone agrees but this is what happens when you build a supercity, Auckland Council!! I think there would have been a lot more planning in terms of transportation and organisation for this event if the government never proposed the idea of a supercity in the first place.

Len Brown’s administration has been led to the slaughter by John Key and his eunuch Murray ‘McGirly’. In any organisation, failures of this magnitude would result in heads rolling, starting from the very top. The Auckland RWC transport fiasco is the perfect platform for John’s favoured buddy John Banks to sweep in for the Auckland mayoralty. With Key’s ‘sit on the fence’ leadership style and lack of enthusiasm to give support to Auckland’s transport initiatives, it would seem the Brown administration was setup to fail from the outset, at the expense of taxpayers, ratepayers and RWC supporters and visitors. As for McGirly, he needs to hop back on the white horse Sir John Key rode in on and side saddle himself back to parliament to get his lashings. The welts on his backside will serve as a future reminder to him which end is up when speaking on matters of national importance.

I find it interesting that you keep calling what happened at the waterfront "unpleasant" "a disaster" etc. I for one enjoyed the atmosphere and experience of the waterfront and Queens Street on Friday night. Yes, they underestimated the numbers, and it could have been run better, but this shows that the people of New Zealand and Auckland have gotten in behind this event far more than was expected. Why can't the media celebrate that?