Parliamentary Service pays Labour $6000, which pockets $4,500 and pays the rest to the NZPFU. “The ongoing provision of office space to Labour formed part of a commercial agreement when Labour sold the building to the firefighters union in the early 1990s. “Part of the conditions of that arrangement was that one of the rooms would remain for the use of the Petone branch of the Labour Party. I make no financial contribution, and the Parliamentary Service makes no financial contribution whatsoever, to the Professional Firefighters Union,” Mallard said. The issue of whether the NZPFU have effectively been donating cheap rent to the Labour Party is currently with the Electoral Commission.

Source: Stuff September 15, 2020 17:01 UTC