By Phil Pennington on Radio NZ…

A new national national intelligence and security agency has not yet been established despite it being a key recommendation from the Christchurch mosque attacks inquiry.

The new national intelligence and security agency, to be known as NISA, was integral to six of the first 10 recommendations of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the terrorist attacks, released 18 months ago.

But three years on from the 15 March atrocity, the government says “it is too early” to set the agency up.

Faith communities say that’s a breach of the Royal Commission of Inquiry’s recommendations.

At the same time, departments are carrying on making national security changes – minus the oversight and guidance the super agency was meant to provide.

Read the full article on Radio NZ here.