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# Rort of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/rort-of-the-day/
- Published: 2024-06-11T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-11T01:00:09.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Economy, NZ, NZ Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-06-28 02:24

> Labour MP Kieran McAnulty is claiming a $36,400-a-year housing perk to rent property from his wife.  
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> McAnulty owns a four-bedroom, $655,000 home in Masterton.   
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> When Parliament is in session he stays at a flat in Lower Hutt, owned by his wife Gia Garrick, for which he claims the accommodation allowance.  
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> McAnulty said his Masterton home, which he has owned for two years, is a 1 hour 40 minute drive from Parliament. “Yes I do claim it, like many others.”  
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> Since October, he has claimed $12,067.  
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> “For most of my time as an MP I used the allowance to rent a small flat in Wellington. Now when Parliament is sitting I stay in Petone. I got married in January … The flat was purchased by my now wife before we were married.”  
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> “I do not own the flat, nor am I on the mortgage. The registrar of pecuniary interests advised me I’m not required to declare the flat but I declared it in the interests of transparency. I pay my share to stay there when Parliament sits.”  
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