As readers know, KCDC has budgeted a massive $3.1 million per year to spend on the ‘mandated’ tri-iwi.’ Wellington Ratepayers shell out $280,000 for a Chief Māori Officer, which is $78,000 more than the city’s mayor takes home. Over in the regional council, there is another executive doing the same work for over $200,000. Former minister Maurice Williamson and Ani O’Brien look at why ratepayers are funding duplicate bureaucracy in a cost-of-living crisis and ask where the actual outcomes are.