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Speaker 1: And Ryan Bridge.

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Speaker 2: The government's much talked about Infrastructure Investment Summit begins tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Chris Luxon obviously has been hyping this up, the possibility

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Speaker 2: for overseas investors to help pay for some of our infrastructure.

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Speaker 2: Jason Walls is News Talks political editor. He's going to

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Speaker 2: be at the conference. Jason, Good evening, Good evening, rayn

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Speaker 2: Now run me through what what's the rundown tomorrow? What's

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Speaker 2: actually happening?

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Speaker 1: Oh listen, mate, You take a diet, you throw it

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Speaker 1: at a corkboard that has a photo of a minister

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Speaker 1: on it, and likely you hit somebody that's speaking tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: There is just all of them that are taking to

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Speaker 1: the stage to talk to the investors about various different

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Speaker 1: parts of their portfolio. Obviously it's the Prime Minister who's

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Speaker 1: opening the conference, and then you've got Nikola Willis. And

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Speaker 1: then afterwards, as I said, it's a bit of a

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Speaker 1: schmugasport really of the who's who's every minister and their dogs,

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Speaker 1: Simeon Brown, Tama Port Tucker, You've got Ericus Stamford, just

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Speaker 1: to name a few. So I don't actually know who's

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Speaker 1: going to be left in Parliament tomorrow. I mean, my

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Speaker 1: colleagues are going to be keeping an eye on the house,

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Speaker 1: but there's going to be nobody there.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like it. Do we know whether any of

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Speaker 2: the e we are presenting, for example, or any other

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Speaker 2: New Zealand businesses or outfits or is it just government like?

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Speaker 2: Is it exclusively government ministers?

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean we only get the sort of what's

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Speaker 1: happening with the government and the ministerial agenda here. There

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Speaker 1: may well be various different presentations from others, but the

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Speaker 1: agenda or the number of companies, I mean, there's one

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Speaker 1: hundred that are coming, forty seven of them are from

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Speaker 1: New Zealand. So I talked to Chris Bishop today and

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Speaker 1: I said, we'll hang on a second. This doesn't really

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Speaker 1: sound like an international conference. And he said, well, the

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Speaker 1: point is you want to get about half New Zealand

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Speaker 1: half overseas in the room to be able to have

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Speaker 1: these conversations. So it's the government that's facilitating it. They're

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Speaker 1: the one that's up there talking about the various different

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Speaker 1: projects that they want funding for. But these are the

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Speaker 1: delegates in the room that could be talking to each other,

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Speaker 1: and the government wants to facilitate some of that capital flow.

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Speaker 2: Now, obviously we can't, we shouldn't say where it's been held,

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Speaker 2: but the government did say that it was oversubscribed. Remember

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Speaker 2: when they came out and said it's oversubscribed and there's

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Speaker 2: one hundred people. I'd like to know how many people

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Speaker 2: the venue holds, you know, how oversubscribed was it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I talked to it, as I said, I

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Speaker 1: talked to Chris Bishop again today and he said it

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Speaker 1: was the hottest ticket in town and he had quite

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Speaker 1: a few people actually lining up four tickets. I don't

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Speaker 1: mean think he meant literally lining up, but it's yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's somewhere in Auckland, right. I wish I could tell you.

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Speaker 1: I'm going along tomorrow and I'm just going to look

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Speaker 1: at an email and type that into the uber address

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Speaker 1: and hopefully I get there. It is somewhere in Auckland,

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Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure they'll be able to handle. I

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Speaker 1: think it's about one hundred people or one hundred companies

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Speaker 1: that are represented. There'll be more people than that there.

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Speaker 1: I would say they'd probably be closer to five hundred

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Speaker 1: to seven hundred and fifty.

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Speaker 2: All up, Okay, interesting stuff, Jason, Thank you very much

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Speaker 2: for that. I'm sure we'll hear more from you on

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