New Zealand Infrastructure Commission

Yields actually eased after the sale.

While Japan debates borrowing to fund tax cuts, should we be leaning into those same markets to fund credible infrastructure? Te Waihanga, the Infrastructure Commission, tracks this country's project pipeline.

12,500 projects worth a combined $290 million, up $15 billion in three months from April to June.

What's driving the increase? Unfunded initiatives, new ones, and rising costs on existing projects already in planning or construction.

I've heard a lot from Minister Bishop and others on how we are finally going to enable more cost-effective approaches to infrastructure.

We've seen recent work from the Infrastructure Commission reminding that the over-specking problem that is driving cost increases is largely a defensive response to consent requirements.

So if you can avoid... years of heartache in the courts and planning process by padding your costs out to a tremendous extent, by proactively avoiding anything that anybody anywhere might ever complain about.

You might do that, but it raises the cost for everybody.

Labour's health spokesperson says ED waits have worsened over the past two decades, and corridor care was rare 18 years ago when she admitted patients to wards.

Politicians at a facilities management summit reached consensus today on the need for the Infrastructure Commission, improved project scopes and maintenance planning, but division erupted over Cook Strait ferries, social housing and solar.

Scott Watson's lawyers have told the Supreme Court an unreliable eyewitness account compromised his murder trial and jurors shouldn't have had to decide its reliability.

Waitematā Health NZ managers have unionised and are threatening to strike over pay with two weeks partial action from November 3rd.

So establish a New Zealand Future Fund of up to $100 billion to invest solely in a multi-decade infrastructure build.

Now if we look at the 2026 National Infrastructure Plan, and this was produced by the Infrastructure Commission,

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states by the 2050s we will need to increase from our current 20 billion a year to more than 40 billion a year now these numbers are reflective of all sectors not just transport however this is a policy where it's actually thinking about that long term needing to invest quite a lot of money into our infrastructure and transport is included in this

quick comment on the reducing the cancellation of projects after elections you know obviously we know in the new zealand environment, our party voting tends to swing based on transport issues.

We know that National tends to talk about roads, we know that Labour tends to talk about public transport and active modes, and this can swing voters either way.

With the Infrastructure Commission putting out a 30 year infrastructure plan.

I wonder, I do wonder if that would naturally avoid or reduce the cancellation of projects after elections anyway, because we signed up for a 30 year bipartisan agreement.

Got his ears on in the context of the parameters that he sets for the role and his outcomes.

And of course, then we had Jeff Cooper, CEO of the Infrastructure Commission.

And my goodness, what a formidable intellect was sitting across the table.

I just enjoyed that so much.

Our call's really about doing the planning better.

And I've got to acknowledge this year and last year, we've come a long way.

So we've seen the Infrastructure Commission release its National Infrastructure Plan, a 30-year view.

Last election, NRC was calling for a 50-year view on infrastructure planning.

We've got to hold them to account further, though, in agreeing a pipeline.

And a pipeline, the Infrastructure Commission, which is the independent advisor to government, they advise and they've done some really good work, which I think has educated the politicians and the system.

We're only a little bit of the way through what they need to do, but we're getting there and they've done some good work.

They've talked about what, you know, they call it a pipeline and a 30-year national infrastructure plan.

Labor, meanwhile, says it'll put water security into long stu- long-term infrastructure planning as well, Guion, um, that also direct government agencies to proactively progress these water storage opportunities.

And water storage, you know, featured in the Infrastructure Commission's recent national infrastructure plan from earlier this year for the first time.

So Federated Farmers water storage spokesperson, Richard Dawkins, says it's great to see both major parties looking at this issue.

He says reliable water access is critical to growing the economy