Tauranga

It's the kind of thing we're asking just a council or two to fund that probably doesn't work.

Like if you look at the great systems overseas, like if we had a great system, we'd have rail between Tauranga, Hamilton, Auckland, maybe up to Whangarei.

And that would be what a great network looks like.

But that is so expensive that what you need to do is use the golden visa money for an infrastructure bond for it or something.

So, you know, there'll be swings and roundabouts, and I haven't gone and, sorry, I haven't looked at the detail of that piece of it.

But it's interesting, Mike, there, you know, like construction's up 2.6% in the last quarter, and I was at a construction conference in Tauranga, and yes, it's been difficult and challenging, and that's what's happened, and Auckland's impacted disproportionately because of, you know... and building in construction that's been interest rates sort of lead over a number of years and you just you cancel projects where you put you know projects on the back burner and that's essentially the uncertainty that's been sitting in that sector but it's been good to see you know 2.6 growth in building construction and also forward activity looking really good um manufacturing we've had 15 months now of manufacturing on an absolute tear which has been brilliant The tourism jobs and tourism numbers are back, plus the value is much higher, and you've obviously got record exports.

But I was in Whakatane the other day, met in a town hall, and the key issue raised with me, we're shorter workers, shorter workers, shorter workers.

So it actually then led into an interesting conversation about welfare to work and how we get Kiwis into those jobs as well as how we fill them.