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Yes, the upset yesterday at the revelation of the Three Waters office space is understandable. Millions spent on leases and hundreds of workers.
\\nFor what?
\\nThe thing doesn\\u2019t even exist. It\'s like the central health authority\'s first action being a report with 101 ideas as to what to do about fixing the place. Not a single one of them was original and none of them enacted because they had barely unpacked their lunch boxes.
\\nThat\'s this Government in a nutshell, though.
\\nSome headlines, bit of noise, some advertising, a bit of hiring and some "transition\\u201d work. But the reality and the grunt work, where is it?
\\nIn the Three Waters case, tomorrow, allegedly, we are to receive the select committees report back on the Water Services Entities Bill. In other words, the legislation hasn\\u2019t been passed. Currently, there is no Three Waters.
\\nSo how can there be a bunch of people working madly away? What are they working away on?
\\nOh yes, the transition. To what? What\'s it look like? What\'s in? What isn\'t? What\'s getting changed? What\'s getting thrown out? No one knows, or do they?
\\nThe process of the select committee is to take the intention and hear from the public. Boy, have they heard from the public. Then, they maybe do something about it.
\\nThe rejection rate for this project has been monumental
\\nMost councils don\\u2019t want a bar of the idea
\\nThey have made some changes, the council have rejected the changes and very few are even close to being on board.
\\nSo what are they saying is that it doesn\\u2019t matter what you think, it\\u2019s happening anyway and that\\u2019s why all these people are sitting at head office working away, because what you say, what you have objected to, is irrelevant.
\\nNot even this Government are that arrogant, I don\\u2019t think.
\\nSo somewhere between ignoring us and throwing the whole thing in the bin lies what will actually happen, and given that, just what is it you do all day when you are employed on something that doesn\\u2019t have a shape yet?
\\nAlso, if you are one of those people, what did you sign up to?
\\nAnd as what? How does that work, how much energy do you want to put into something that may never happen, how unfulfilling must that be?
\\nIf my bet is right and Three Waters never comes to pass, what do you put on your CV?
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