Labour spending Covid-19 money on Three Waters!

The Herald reports:

The Government has tapped some $70m of Covid Response and Recovery money to bolster the dwindling coffers of its Three Waters Reform Programme, including the purchase of ongoing policy and communications work, much of it done by consultants.

Cabinet redirected the unspent Covid-related funds in April this year, Cabinet documents show, despite an earlier promise by Finance Minister Grant Robertson to focus the Covid-19 Response and Recovery Fund (CRRF) funds specifically on meeting the direct costs of responding to Covid-19 and the economic recovery from it.

So we were told the Government needed $61 billion to fight Covid-19, and it turns out they are spending big chunks of it on spin doctors and consultants for Three Waters!