An infrastructure consensus

Radio NZ reports:

Almost all of Parliament is backing the 30-year Infrastructure Plan, with the government agreeing in full to 13 of 16 recommendations and four further actions.

The remaining three recommendations are supported in principle, and the government says further work is required.

Labour and the Greens have also offered explicit support, with both parties writing forewords to the government’s response, welcoming a long-term non-partisan approach – although the Greens wanted the government to go further.

This is a very welcome development. Big kudos to Chris Bishop, Kieran McAnulty and Julie-Anne Genter for working together to achieve this.

The full response is here.