Jill Bonnet

And so who's left to carry the can?

I can't say that it will be very clear when the Public Service Commission looks at this.

It's not clear in the report and I'm interested also to know that.

I think that the minister started asking questions and I don't know whether she was prompted by something that she'd seen before

whether they came asking for a little bit more money and then she started looking into it more deeply because there was certainly 2024 was after the change of government and Erica Stanford would have seen these documents.

This is the time when she thinks she's been misled by her ministry and whether at that point it's gone...

you know, for a deeper dive and the officials have looked into it a little bit more and it's at that point maybe that the plug's been pulled and that all these questions have started arising.

Yeah, I mean, that itself came out two months ago and I guess that's not altogether uncommon.

It has been normal practice, I think, at least among departments that they get a chance to read through the

conclusions and put a response together.

But it's not a good look when you've got something that the minister is obviously already angry about and yet the report doesn't get to the light of day for a further two months, you know, after this has been going on for six, seven years.

Yeah.

And did the ministry have a response?

She said not, no.

Maybe there's a bit of Humphrey about it as well, who knows, you know, in terms of who knew what when.

And who was trying to put things in a positive light when...

In fact, it was already very bad.

They've obviously apologised in public because it all came out at select committee yesterday.

the new head of MB apologised at that meeting.

Which obviously was a very difficult one to sit through, I imagine, for him with the Minister saying,