New Zealand's Immigration Minister's call to reintegrate the Pacific Immigration Division into the general service, has drawn criticism from the Pacific community.
The auditor general's report found the unit lacked transparency, poor management and their were concerns over financial accountability.
The Minister, Jonathan Coleman, has ordered the unit's functions be shifted to the Immigration Service.
Hamish Crooks from the Cook Islands community agrees the report shows many flaws in the service.
But Mr Crooks says he's unsure if abolishing the department is pragmatic.
He also says the report's authors were not connected to the large Pacific Island population here.
"This is the problem when you come to the reviews there is not a hell of a lot of consultation that goes back to the key stake holders. It's a judgement made by people who are not necessarily connected, to be brutal."
Mr Crooks says the division was set up to address unfilled quotas around Pacific immigration because many people saw the region as irrelevant to a wider immigration strategy.
