“The modest budget boost to Maori and Pacific trade training to address youth unemployment deserves to be boosted”, said Michael Barnett head of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce.
The radical move by the central government to take over approving housing resource consents reinforces the Chamber’s recent calls for action to address Auckland’s housing shortage.
If a business plan was signed off by the Board of a listed company knowing that it set out an investment programme that would deliver a negative result, there would be one outcome – they would lose the confidence in their investors.
The Heads of Agreement confirming an International Convention Centre will be built in central Auckland is exactly the positive boost Auckland and New Zealand needs, says Michael Barnett, head of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce.
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