te Heu Heu all over the show on PEDA

Pacific Island Affairs Minister Georgina te Heu Heu continued her farcical defence of the Government’s dodgy processed around the awarding of $4.8 million dollars in this year’s Budget, Labour’s Associate Pacific Island Affairs spokesman Su’a William Sio said today.

“The Minister told Parliament today that the Pacific Economic Development Agency (PEDA) has not been awarded funding in the Budget. That is at complete odds with a press release she issued a month ago,” Su’a William Sio said.

“It’s hard to make sense of any of the responses to questions that are being put to Georgina te Heu Heu around the lack of transparency around the PEDA funding.

“We have asked her numerous questions in Parliament – which she continues to fail to answer. We even put the same questions to her in written form – still no answers.

“It is becoming more and more obvious that the Minister has something to hide.

“Our questions are basic - who represented PEDA in its negotiations with the Government? Why does she not know who she has handed almost $5 million to?

If it wasn’t her than which Minister actually dealt with negotiations with PEDA?”

“These are reasonable questions that a Minister who has a strong grip on their portfolio would be able to answer,” Su’a William Sio said.

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