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“I certainly spoke [to my ministerial colleagues] about whether they wanted to do it, “Shaw told Newshub.
But it was too late, it is beyond the reach of the Crown Infrastructure Partners ministers.
Now it is up to officials to negotiate the division of the grant into a private school loan.
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters described the attempt to repair the damage as “a serious tribute to inexperience.”
But the loan or payment is angering school principals, including Waitara Central School, which needs new classrooms and cannot afford to replace its old furnace with heat pumps.
“We are not asking for anything new; we are not asking for new buildings. We just want to fix what we have,” says director Vickie Kahu-Pukoro.
Among his litany of apologies today, Shaw had one for those local schools.
“I apologize to the Taranaki schools who rightly want the best for their children,” he said.
It all came to an end Monday after Newshub revealed that a self-described “new age architect,” a school parent, had plans to plant a glass grid with the children.
That plan was thwarted by the shutdown, but the couple held a ‘DNA activation’ and ‘bioenergy field cleanup’ fundraiser at the school.
His proposed crystal plan has baffled and baffled MPs.
“We didn’t learn that at Walton Primary,” National Leader Judith Collins told Newshub.
“Nobody has any idea what a crystal plantation is,” Peters added. “Look, as they said in the flower power era, ‘far away man.’
Very good, and almost ridiculous. Shaw admitted today that the extent of his due diligence in pushing the funding was to check the school’s website.
