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Speaker 1: Budget day and what to expect given we've got no money,

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Speaker 1: but the expectation among some remains as high as ever.

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Speaker 1: So what are the priorities? Is it saving or borrowing all?

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Speaker 1: Both Michelle and the Comick is the policy director at

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Speaker 1: Infrastructure New Zealand and as with us Michelle, good morning,

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Speaker 1: good morning. Make the broad direction of travel, the roads,

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Speaker 1: the rail what we've heard so far, do you get

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Speaker 1: a sense the government's on top of it or not?

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Speaker 2: I think they're trying to make some progress within the

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Speaker 2: constraints and it's good to see that there's continuation and

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Speaker 2: building on the fundamentals too. We've got eight one hundred

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Speaker 2: projects sitting in our pipeline, so there's no shortage of ideas,

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Speaker 2: but only about half of that two one hundred and

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Speaker 2: seven billion dollars worth of work is actually funded. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of opportunity to move forward that some

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Speaker 2: of it's the system settings too that we want to

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Speaker 2: see progress continue to be made.

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Speaker 1: Do you want to hear something about these PPPs or

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Speaker 1: the overseas investment or the money coming from somewhere today?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, we're king that the government infrastructure is set

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Speaker 2: up to continue to leverage their private funding and that

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Speaker 2: the government departments well resourced so they can make the

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Speaker 2: policy work on the arimas, on the funding and financing

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Speaker 2: ethics that they are set up to be the welcome

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Speaker 2: mats for New Zealand for international investments.

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Speaker 1: Around the rules, around the rules and structures. Are they

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Speaker 1: moving fast enough.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of work there are we are seeing progress.

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Speaker 2: It was great to see public works at changes introduced

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Speaker 2: which will be a game changer for those fast trek projects.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, Michelle, good to talk to you appreciate it.

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