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	<title>Comments on: Treasury spending on consultants up by 1014%; &#8220;gobsmacking,&#8221; says Labour</title>
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		<title>By: Bob Lawton</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bob Lawton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 07:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But it doesn&#039;t matter because this is the way it&#039;s done overseas so it must be OK. What we need to do is keep this snippet from David Shearer and when he becomes PM, hold him to account if his future government comes within cooee of this figure. 
Personally, I think any more than 10% of any department or company&#039;s wage and salary bill spent on consultants indicates that the management leadership team and or the Board of Directors are either scared or incompetent and should accordingly be thrown out - and the chances of that? Yeah right.]]></description>
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Personally, I think any more than 10% of any department or company&#8217;s wage and salary bill spent on consultants indicates that the management leadership team and or the Board of Directors are either scared or incompetent and should accordingly be thrown out &#8211; and the chances of that? Yeah right.</p>
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