Inquiry reports

Inquiry into Dunedin City Council and Otago Regional Council's funding of the proposed stadium

September 2007: Letter advising of the outcome of our inquiry into the funding arrangements of the Dunedin City Council and Otago Regional Council for a new multi-purpose stadium proposed by the trustees of the Carisbrook Stadium Charitable Trust...

Queenstown Lakes District Council - regulatory and resource management services

September 2007: Letter advising of the outcome of our inquiry into decisions made by the Queenstown Lakes District Council and the council-controlled organisation that it established to provide regulatory and resource management services for the district...

Advertising expenditure incurred by the Parliamentary Service in the three months before the 2005 General Election

October 2006: In the three months before the General Election on 17 September 2005, the Auditor-General became concerned that electioneering material may have been paid for by the Parliamentary Service out of resources appropriated for MPs’ and parliamentary parties’ advertising...

Inquiry into certain allegations about Housing New Zealand Corporation

June 2006: The Board of Housing New Zealand Corporation asked me to consider undertaking an inquiry after allegations made by a former contractor of the Corporation appeared in the news media. The allegations were potentially serious, and warranted looking into...

Inquiry into funding arrangements for Green Party liaison roles

April 2006: This report sets out the outcome of our inquiry into the funding arrangements for the Green Party Ministerial liaison and relationship roles...

Inquiry into the Ministry of Health's contracting with Allen and Clarke Policy and Regulatory Specialists Limited

December 2005: The findings in this report are a reminder that public entities need to manage contracting for services to ensure two outcomes. The first is that they are receiving value for money. The second is that the risks of actual or perceived impropriety, especially those associated with concurrent or former employment with the entity, are managed in a transparent way...

Inquiry into certain aspects of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa

December 2005: This audit and inquiry into Te Wānanga o Aotearoa (TWOA) followed a request for assurance from the then Associate Minister of Education (Tertiary Education) in September 2004. There were concerns about possible conflicts of interest in transactions worth large sums of money. Other issues emerged as we began our inquiry...

Cambridge High School's management of conflicts of interest in relation to Cambridge International College (NZ) Limited

October 2005: The findings of this inquiry highlight the need for schools to carefully consider the ethical dimensions of conflicts of interest...

Inquiry into the sale of Paraparaumu Aerodrome by the Ministry of Transport

September 2005: Although the sale of the Aerodrome took place more than a decade ago, the conduct of the sale provides a useful case study of a sale of a Crown-owned asset...

Electricity Commission: Contracting with service providers

July 2005: This report describes events leading up to the decision to appoint contractors, and analyses the practices followed. It also sets out our expectations of public entities involved in sole source procurement in circumstances where contestable procurement is impracticable...

Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology's management of conflicts of interest regarding the Computing Offered On-Line (COOL) programme

November 2004: The findings of this inquiry into how CPIT managed conflicts of interest regarding the Computing Offered On-Line programme emphasise the need for public entities to carefully consider the ethical dimensions of conflicts of interest...

NZ On Air's funding of NZ Idol

November 2004, letter to Deborah Coddington MP.

Working for Families Communications Strategy

September 2004, letter to Hon Murray McCully MP.

Inquiry into the Ministry of Education's monitoring of scholarships administered by the Māori Education Trust

October 2004: The Tertiary Education Commission raised concerns about the financial management of the scholarships by the Māori Education Trust, and the quality of the monitoring by the Ministry of Education...

Inquiry into Expenses Incurred by Dr Ross Armstrong as Chairperson of Three Public Entities

December 2003: The matter of Dr Armstrong's expenses was the subject of a complaint to us by Hon Murray McCully MP following parliamentary and media comment. These events prompted us to instigate a detailed review in order to address more fully the issues raised...

Inquiry into Public Funding of Organisations Associated with Donna Awatere Huata MP

November 2003: In January 2003, Hon Richard Prebble MP, leader of the ACT New Zealand parliamentary party, asked the Auditor-General to inquire into certain allegations of financial impropriety involving one of his party’s list members, Donna Awatere Huata MP...

Auckland Region Passenger Rail Service Report

November 2003, letter to the Chief Executive, Auckland Regional Council.

Auckland Regional Council 2003-04 Rates

August 2003, letter to the Chairperson of Auckland Regional Council.

Industry New Zealand - Business Growth Fund Grant to The Warehouse

July 2003, letter to Mr Rodney Hide MP.

Report on the Disposal of 17 Kelly Street by The Institute of Environmental Science and Research Limited

June 2003, letter to the Minister Responsible for Crown Research Institutes.