Queenstown Lakes District Council chief executive Adam Feeley has "total integrity", Minister of Building and Housing Nick Smith says.
Smith has spent the past two days in the resort dealing with special housing areas and a home ownership support package.
He told the Otago Daily Times he was not concerned by an auditor-general inquiry into a special housing area application by the former Serious Fraud Office head's family trust.
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