We established at the beginning that the minister was incurious about this and unengaged with the process. At any point, did anyone in your department or in her office or she herself say, “Hey, we have a job to do, which is to achieve value for money, not just put a rubber stamp on everything”? Did anyone at any point say, “This is not achieving value for money, guys”?
On November 9th, 2023. See this statement in context.