As part of the deal, the Judicial Review of the sacking will be withdrawn, and there will be full disclosure of all documents surrounding the sacking. Keeping Stock wonders what Cunners' reaction to the latter will be, given that it is his credibility on the line.
According to the Dom-Post, Ryall's actions have been very favourably received in the Hawke's Bay, now a National Party stronghold thanks to Cunners:
Napier Mayor Barbara Arnott and Hastings Mayor Lawrence Yule said they were delighted with the decision. "The people of Hawke's Bay will welcome this result as it avoids a costly court case and is the remedy that the councils were seeking," the mayors said. Former chairman Kevin Atkinson said yesterday that board members welcomed their reinstatement "and effective exoneration".
Board members felt it "fully justifies the unprecedented action taken by the five Hawke's Bay councils on behalf of the community to challenge former minister Cunliffe's decision to dismiss the board," Mr Atkinson said.
"The former board was always confident that an unbiased review of the facts under the judicial review sought by the five councils would reverse the injustice imposed on our community.
"Minister Cunliffe's unbalanced attack on the reputation of the former board members and the statements made by him under the protection of parliamentary privilege were reprehensible, as were those statements made by a number of people giving him advice at the time of the board's dismissal."
And what of Chris Clarke, the DHB's CEO (and former staffer of Helen Clark)? The Dom-Post reports that he is looking forward to "moving on". Keeping Stock ventures to suggest that moving on might involve an updated CV, letters of application, and a new role where he will have to progress on merit, and not rely on political patronage.
4 comments:
All good news and I cannot wait for disclosure of the documents.
As for Chris Clarke until early last week I had him dowm as part of the problem. Last Friday I posted in the Friday Forum (I think) about a chat I had with someone in the HB Health Industry who had a very favourable view of him.
With your skills INV2 you may be able to link my comments then to this post - I think it is very relevant and enlightening.
Dare we hope that finally we will get to the bottom of this disgraceful mess?
Here you go pdm - indeed, from last week's Friday Forum, and brought to you by the magic of cut and paste!
Time to revive the HBDHB sacking given the change of government and the fact that the court action by the local Councils is not likely to proceed as there is no point in putting Tony Ryall in the dock.
I had an interesting chat with a local health professional earlier this week. This person has headed up a community health service in Hawkes Bay for some years and obviously has contacts and friends deep into the local health scene.
I asked if the board should have been sacked. The response was an adamant NO WAY followed up by the unsolicited comment that Annette King and Ray Lind had a lot to answer for. The person had no time whatsoever for Lind and blamed him and to a lesser extent Hausmann for the whole fiasco.
It was intersting that Chief Executive Clark, about whom litlle good has been said by anyone else, was portrayed as being naive and out of his depth but a capable administrator. In fact it was indicated quite clearly to me that he had been totally duped, firstly by Lind and then later on by Hausmann and like the Board was very much a scapegoat in the sacking. It was suggestest that the so called rift between Clark and Board Chaiman Atkinson was driven by Lind and Cunliffes supporters to help justify the sacking because otherwise Clark would leave.
The person I was speaking to was 100% behind reinstatement of the board all of whom were held in high regard as competent people. This of course is consistent with the view of most Hawkes Bay people. It was also said that Clark should be retained.
Thanks for doing that INV@ - I hope it is of interest to you and your readers. It was certainly enightening to me at the time.
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