Resilience NSW Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons has been grilled over the allocation of cash from the catastrophe fund established after the Black Summer time bushfires.
“Folks in northern New South Wales … are displaced, they’re distressed, they’ve been overwhelmed as certainly the state has been overwhelmed by an unprecedented catastrophe,” Mr Fitzsimmons mentioned.
9’s Chris O’Keefe requested the commissioner if he was comfortable along with his work and if he felt accountability for the individuals of northern NSW.
“With respect, this isn’t about me, it’s in regards to the many hundreds of people that have been displaced and broken emotionally and bodily by flood occasions throughout northern New South Wales as was nicely documented, the flood heights had been by no means anticipated to get anyplace close to what was finally demonstrated.”
Mr Fitzsimmons was then requested if he shared the Premier’s view “that this emergency response has fallen nicely in need of expectations”.
“I feel this response effort has completely been overwhelmed by the unprecedented circumstances which were nicely documented and talked about from the start,” he mentioned.
“I feel there may be lots of people which were dissatisfied and upset because of the place they discovered themselves throughout these very, very troublesome and certainly lethal instances.”