ACC Minister Judith Collins says the spending of $19 million on health and safety contracts over a decade has all the hallmarks of a taxpayer rort.
The corporation has announced it will not renew the contacts with Business New Zealand and the Council of Trade Unions for workplace health and safety training because they did not deliver value for money.
Ms Collins told Radio New Zealand's Summer Report programme the scheme is clearly not working and she does not intend to waste more money on it by taking further action, since the contracts are unlikely to be renewed.
The minister said the programme looked like a very cosy deal set up in 2003, leaving the people it aimed to help with nothing.
