Rebecca Ingram

I mean, the average solar system that we're selling is around $20,000, and that's pretty chunky, particularly when you've got a cost-of-living crisis for the average family to front up.

Specifically...

We have a massive world economic and fuel crisis and a reset.

And, you know, we said, let's think big 50 years ago.

Now New Zealand has to think small and smart, and that's what this is.

No, well, that's right, Mike.

You can do that, but there are many people that have no mortgages

There are many people that have no room on the mortgage, particularly with the drop in house prices.

And so the banks disallow that.

They don't have any room.

You have to remember that power prices have gone up 10% each year for the last seven years and are going to go up 10% each year for the next seven years.

Oh, the minute you put it on, you start saving, and each year you save more and more.

I mean, the average house that we're doing is saving about $1,500 to $2,000 a year on the energy bill.

Basically, I think the recovery that we thought we'd be seeing early next year has been brought forward much more quickly.

Actually, the weaker exchange rate is part of the solution, I think, to getting us some better quality growth.

One of the consequences of the last few years is we've been left with relatively low interest rates compared to other countries, and the exchange rate's adjusting to reflect that.

I know it does sound quite dull, doesn't it?

But it's really important.

So tourism's a $46 billion industry.

We create one in nine jobs in New Zealand and we haven't had a national policy view.