United
Future New Zealand leader, Peter Dunne, today firmly
re-emphasized that the party does not favour the
centralising of the system for distributing profits from
gaming machines.
"We believe very strongly that money
raised in any community from these machines should be
returned to that community in the form of grants to sporting
and community organisations," he said.
"Naturally, we
support any move to make such payouts fully transparent and
accountable, but we do not believe the system needs a new
layer of bureaucracy.
"Any suggestion that we want to take
money away from communities and are working with the Greens
to achieve this are untrue and appear to be rumour fuelled
by malice," said Mr
Dunne.
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