Auditor-General hears concerns about health commissioner’s accounts

The Auditor-General has been briefed on apparent discrepancies in how Te Whatu Ora’s new Government-appointed commissioner has presented the giant health agency accounts.
Lester Levy and his team of deputy commissioners are including big allowances for holiday pay remediation, for pay equity settlements and in a surprise move, sources say, for more than $130 million for redundancies provisioned in the 2023/24 books – the books that are now being audited.