126 people attend $800,000 job expos

The Herald reports:

Taxpayers have forked out more than $800,000 for Zoom job expos run by the Ministry of Social Development.

Newstalk ZB can reveal the events failed to fire, with just 126 people taking part since the first pilot two years ago.

That works out to $6626 per attendee.

Just example No 128,765 of wasteful spending.

The second event in March 2021 was a “tactical response” to the Auckland lockdown, featuring five seminars with 11 attendees.

If it wasn’t for the fact it is my money they are wasting, it would be comical. They ran five seminars in Auckland and got a total of 11 people to them! If this was a company spending its own money they would have halted them by now, but hey its just taxpayer money.