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Over $300K spent on slushy syrup and maintaining machines for prison staff (www.rnz.co.nz)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Corrections has spent over $305,000 on slushy syrup and maintaining frozen ice machines in the past six years.

The news comes as proposed job cuts ravage the public service with 3460 jobs set for the chopping block, as part of the cost savings drive.

The slushy machines caused controversy in 2019 when it was revealed Corrections had spent over $1 million of taxpayer money on 193 slushy machines.

The then-National leader Simon Bridges called it "irresponsible and wasteful spending" at the time but then-Corrections minister Kelvin Davis said was about health and safety.

Since then the slushy fund has continued with 160 of the 193 original machines still in use and $305,906 spent on syrup, maintaining them.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (11 children)

I find this a weird thing to worry about. $300k across 6 years is $50k per year. They have over 10k staff so that's $5 per staff member per year. It sounds like incredible value!

I say let them have their slushy fund!

[–] Mandarbmax 2 points 7 months ago

Ya, expecially compared to $5000+ per slushie machine.

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