Willis pledges fiscal discipline with caveats

Willis pledges fiscal discipline with caveats
Finance minister Nicola Willis. (Image: NZME)
Jem Traylen
Finance minister Nicola Willis is confident she will have a better fiscal record than her predecessor, Grant Robertson, regarding budget adherence.She said Labour’s finance minister had a habit of exceeding the operating allowances he announced for his budgets.She made the remark at Tuesday’s press conference on the OECD’s latest report on the New Zealand economy.Not to be ignoredWillis said the OECD had put some facts on the table that shouldn’t be ignored.“In its words, the cause of deterioration in New Zealand&#...

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