Auditor-General recommends prosecutions, review following wage subsidy scheme
File image. Photo: RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King An inquiry into how the scheme has been managed praised the speed at which the Ministry (MSD) approved funds when Covid-19 hit, but the Auditor-General's office says the MSD needs to do more to get public money back from businesses who should not have received it. Principal performance auditor David Press told Morning Report "the subsidy scheme was put in place very quickly and on a large scale and that support was available to people at a time of crisis ... and that was possible due to a high-trust approach that was used and there are some risk...