You have to spend money on maintenance of government assets and infrastructure in order to improve the length of life of all of the assets that you own and that is what the government has not done.
This was stated by Fiscal Review Committee Chair and prominent lawyer, Richard Naidu while speaking on fijivillage Straight Talk with Vijay Narayan.
Naidu says one of the things that came through to them was that the government spends $5 on building new infrastructure and then spends $1 to maintain it.
He says this is something that is supposed to be done the other way around according to experts.
Naidu says no assets are maintained and there is no scheduled maintenance as well.
Naidu says everything was sort of just made up as it goes along.
He says Permanent Secretary at Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Doctor James Fong has been telling them how they are really struggling in the Ministry now because they have never had enough money and they have been under-funded for many years.
