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Speaker 1: Good evening. The investments summit underway in Auckland right now

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Speaker 1: and on the table we've got PPPs to build, finance,

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Speaker 1: maintain this new section of the Northern Expressway. We've got

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Speaker 1: three new courthouses in a revamped christ Church Men's prison.

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Speaker 1: Brett Sheppard, he's from Craig's Investments, Investment Partners. He is

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Speaker 1: there representing investors and he says, so far they're liking

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Speaker 1: what they're hearing.

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Speaker 2: The people I've talked to you last night and again

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Speaker 2: this morning absolutely committed on the basis that there was

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Speaker 2: a continuation of a program that they believe so commit

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Speaker 2: human capital, knowing that as bipartisan that'll see through an

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Speaker 2: election cycle and it's on a sustainable basis is Key.

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Speaker 1: Chris Bishops and charges with us now home Minister, good day,

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Speaker 1: how are you good? Thank you? Anything tangible come out

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Speaker 1: of this year or is it fair to say this

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Speaker 1: deals will be done later?

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Speaker 3: Deals will be done later and in the coming weeks,

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Speaker 3: months and years ahead. This is about a long term pipeline.

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Speaker 3: I mean one tangible commitment we've already had today from

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Speaker 3: Plenary Group, for example, is they promised to set up

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Speaker 3: in Zealand offic here and they promised to bid on

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Speaker 3: the next five PPP opportunities that come up. So that

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Speaker 3: is actually a commitment they've just made, i think in

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Speaker 3: the last twenty four hours on the basis of what

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Speaker 3: they've heard of the summer and then the lead up

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Speaker 3: to it. So that's good.

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Speaker 1: That is good. The bipartisan thing obviously very important. You've

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Speaker 1: got Barbara edmund speaking tomorrow. How I mean, do you

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Speaker 1: have an agreement that whatever you decide while you're in

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Speaker 1: government they'll stick to, because that's really what these guys

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Speaker 1: want to know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's been a constant theme of today is hearing

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Speaker 3: from the delegates. They like the fact that you've got

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Speaker 3: national and labor in the room, being mature, grown up

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Speaker 3: adults agreeing on working on a pipeline and also the

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Speaker 3: funding model. So Barbara Edmunds wrote a forward to the

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Speaker 3: PPP document that we released as a government.

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Speaker 1: That is really important.

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Speaker 3: And I'm working with her on the thirty year Plan

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Speaker 3: for infrastructure in New Zealand and I actively want to

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Speaker 3: involve the opposition in that and I think the reality

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Speaker 3: is we need as a country to do that right

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Speaker 3: because these guys want long term certainty, they want to

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Speaker 3: invest in news, they need to understand that their investments

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Speaker 3: are safe and secure and that there's also a pipeline

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Speaker 3: so that they can invest in human capital and they

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Speaker 3: can invest in the kit and the machinery. So that

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Speaker 3: is really important. Frankly, if we're honest about it, we

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Speaker 3: haven't been very good at that as a country. Governments

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Speaker 3: come and go on, the projects come and go. Let's

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Speaker 3: get mature about it. Let's be adults in the room

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Speaker 3: and build for New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: All right, Chris Bishop, thanks so much for your time.

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Speaker 1: That's the Infrastructure Minister, Chris Bishop in Auckland. For more

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