, Thursday, December 5, 2013 NEWS A7 Asset sales mooted to pay for rebuild

Marc Greenhill ‘‘Until we’ve had a really insurance negotiations was [email protected] Whatever ● ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● ● close look at [the assets] I ‘‘irresponsible’’. ONE DAY ONLY we need to couldn’t say, but everything She had not been aware the Asset sales may be back on will be on the table and we’ll ‘‘heart’’ of the arrangement – the agenda as the Christ- do, we will do. just have to do what we need the council committing to its THURSDAY 5TH DEC church City Council seeks to We will live to do to stay within our share of costs regardless of avoid a financial crisis over budgets and live within our insurance proceeds – was its likely earthquake insur- within our means,’’ he said. signed by former chief execu- ^ ance shortfall. The council planned to tive Tony Marryatt and It emerged this week that means. take a ‘‘prudent and very Christchurch Central Devel- Raf Manji GET A BONUS the council may have to responsible approach’’ to its opment Unit director War- revisit its multibillion-dollar Christchurch city councillor finances and had made it wick Isaacs after the initial rebuild cost-share deal with ‘‘very clear’’ to staff that rates agreement. the Crown because of overly revising anchor project con- should not increase. Dalziel would not comment optimistic predictions about struction timelines – out- ‘‘Whatever we need to do, on whether the agreement its earthquake insurance comes finance committee we will do. We will live within should be renegotiated but payouts. chairman Raf Manji did not our means and we cut our said assets sales were An agreement with rule out. cloth according to the money unlikely. insurer Civic Assurance on ‘‘[The council] needs to that we have,’’ Manji said. The council had to give the whether several of its key look at how much it’s pre- It was ‘‘too early’’ to specu- community ‘‘reassurance and facilities – including AMI pared to borrow, how much late about the possibility of direction’’ and could wait for Stadium and the Christ- it’s prepared to raise through renegotiating the cost-sharing insurance issues to be church Central Library – are rates, and whether or not it agreement while the financial resolved before starting repairs or rebuilds has not can realise cash through asset audit was ongoing. projects, she said. been reached and the council sales in the whole context of He said ‘‘high-level’’ infor- Cr Yani Johanson, who was banking on using the what is in the best interests of mation from the audit would voted against the cost-sharing proceeds to help pay its share the wider community,’’ be known before Christmas, agreement, said it was of central-city rebuild costs. Townsend said. and greater detail would be ‘‘premature’’ to suggest it Canterbury Employers’ Manji would not be drawn available by February or should be renegotiated . Chamber of Commerce chief on the possibility of asset March. The stadium was one proj- executive Peter Townsend sales because he had not Mayor Lianne Dalziel said ect that could be deferred and said yesterday the council reviewed the council’s invest- the previous council’s com- the metro sports facility had should explore all options, ment arm, Christchurch City mitment to the agreement been delayed by a year NOEL LEEMING GIFT * including asset sales or Holdings Ltd. regardless of the outcome of already, he said. $250CARD DECEMBER 2013 – VALID 5TH 31ST JANUARY 2014 GIFT CARD *Cannot be used against original purchase Opposition point finger at Dunne * Tracy Watkins $ ● ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●● ● WHEN YOU SPEND 899 & OVER ON ANY… Opposition MPs have used parliamentary privilege to label Peter GGIIFTFT * Dunne as the person who $250CCAARDRD DECEMBER 2013 – leaked the sensitive document VALID 5TH 31ST JANUARY 2014 TELEVISION *Cannot be used against original purchase that set in train the series of events leading to a high pow- ered inquiry accessing a journalists emails, swipe card and phone records. Prime Minister opened the door to Dunne picking up a ministerial port- folio next year after Parlia- ment’s privileges committee on Tuesday slated Parliamen- tary Service and a former top public servant for over- reaching their powers in seeking to track down the source of the leak. But in Parliament last night, Labour MP said Dunne was not fit to be a minister and had broken his oath of confidentiality. ‘‘He has no right to be a minister; that’s why he resigned, that’s why it is totally improper for Key to be talking about bringing back GGIIFTFT * Peter Dunne as a minister.’’ $250CCAARDRD DECEMBER 2013 – VALID 5TH Former Inland Revenue 31ST JANUARY 2014 WWHITEWAREHITEWARE *Cannot be used against original purchase boss David Henry led a prime ministerial inquiry after a report into potentially unlaw- ful spying by the Government Communications Security Bureau was leaked to Fairfax journalist Andrea Vance. In the course of his inquir- ies he sought phone records, swipe card records and email logs belonging to both Vance Under fire: Peter Dunne speaks at the United Future’s annual conference in Wellington this month. and Dunne which were Photo: FAIRFAX NZ handed over by Parliamen- tary Service without refer- Parliament last night. Dunne resigned as a minis- NZ First leader Winston ence to Parliament’s Speaker. Henry concluded that he ter rather than hand over his Peters said all the evidence The Privileges Committee had been unable to rule out emails to the inquiry and ‘‘overwhelmingly points in investigated and found that Dunne as the source of the claimed the privileges report one direction’’. the inquiry had given no con- leak of the GCSB report but as a vindication. ‘‘I was the person who said sideration to the special said he had been refused But Opposition MPs last from the day at the select com- WHITEWARE status of MPs and journalists access to the content of night said Dunne should mittee you leaked the docu- WHITEWARE REFRIGERATION in a democracy. Dunne’s emails so could not accept responsibility for the ment didn’t you Mr Dunne.’’ WHITEWARE Its report was debated in take the matter further. leak. Fairfax NZ ACT leadership a political ‘Spiral of DESKTOP OR NOTEBOOK

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