Heather du Plessis-Allan

And we didn't, obviously.

Should we do that too?

What would you like us to set our tariffs at?

Yeah.

It's a hard argument for this government to make, I'd imagine, Nick, but thank you for your time.

Nick Collins, Independent Chair of Aluminium Extruders Association of New Zealand.

So we've got some angst about budget spending.

Budget documents show the government has already quietly pre-committed about a billion dollars from future budgets but won't say what the money is for.

Labour is not happy with this.

Brad Olsen is the Principal Economist at Infometrics and with us.

Morning, Brad.

Do you see a problem with this, with pre-committing funding?

Now, the government says the reason they haven't announced it is because they haven't actually made a decision.

But the fact that it's in the budget documents suggests that it really has, hasn't it?

Do you want to take a punt at what it most likely is?

Jordan Williams reckons it's solar.

No.

Hey, thank you very much, Brad.

Appreciate it.

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