MEDIA RELEASE
DHB Chair should front up over $90,000 for legal challenge to ‘angled shelves’

1 AUGUST 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MidCentral District Health Board’s Chair must front up over the decision to spend $90,000 of taxpayer money on a legal challenge against a Dannevirke supermarket for having an angled alcohol display, says the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union.

Taxpayers’ Union Executive Director Jordan Williams says, “With hospital waiting lists, nurse shortages, and pay disputes, who knew ‘angles shelves’ were such a menace to society that DHBs needed to spend $90,000 taking a rural supermarket to Court?”

“In reality the DHB shouldn’t have spent a cent and it is obscene that money meant for core medical services has been diverted in this way.”

“Where is the DHB’s chair Dot McKinnon in all this? Why isn’t she fronting up to explain why this decision was taken? DHBs are supposed to be accountable to the public. It is time Ms McKinnon acted like it.”

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