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Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden.
The Internal Affairs Minister has taken a swipe at government agencies taking a relaxed approach to public accountability despite being responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Brooke van Velden was fronting MPs at Parliament on Wednesday at a scrutiny hearing where she revealed being "shocked" by how little effort the Department of Internal Affairs monitoring team had put in to its role with Fire and Emergency.
"From the start, too often the advice I received reflected word-for-word what Fire and Emergency was saying, rather than doing an analysis of whether or not that was true and accurate and factual," she told MPs.
