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Jason Walls: Newstalk ZB political editor ahead of the Government's Infrastructure Investment Summit · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: The government's much talked about Infrastructure Investment Summit begins tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Chris Luxon obviously has been hyping this up, the possibility
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  Speaker 2: for overseas investors to help pay for some of our infrastructure.
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  Speaker 2: Jason Walls is news Talk ZIB political editor. He's going
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  Speaker 2: to be at the conference. Jason, Good evening, Good evening, Rayin, Now,
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  Speaker 2: run me through what what's the rundown tomorrow? What's actually happening?
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  Speaker 3: Oh listen, mate, You take a dit, you throw it
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  Speaker 3: at a corkboard that has a photo of a minister
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  Speaker 3: on it, and likely you hit somebody that's speaking tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: There is just all of them that are taking to
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  Speaker 3: the stage to talk to the investors about various different
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  Speaker 3: parts of their portfolio. Obviously it's the Prime Minister who's
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  Speaker 3: opening the conference, and then you've got Nikola Willis and
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  Speaker 3: then afterwards, as I said, it's a bit of a
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  Speaker 3: schmaugasport really of.
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  Speaker 4: The who's who's every minister and their dogs.
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  Speaker 3: Simeon Brown, Tama Port Tucker, you got Emericus Stamford, just
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  Speaker 3: to name a few. So I don't actually know who's
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  Speaker 3: going to be left in Parliament tomorrow. I mean, my
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  Speaker 3: colleagues are going to be keeping an eye on the house,
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  Speaker 3: but there's going to be nobody there.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like it. Do we know whether any of
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  Speaker 2: the e we are presenting, for example, or any other
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  Speaker 2: New Zealand businesses or outfits or is it just government like?
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  Speaker 2: Is it exclusively government ministers?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean we only get the sort of what's
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  Speaker 3: happening with the government, the ministerial agenda here. There may
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  Speaker 3: well be various different presentations from others, but the agenda
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  Speaker 3: or the number of companies, I mean, there's one hundred
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  Speaker 3: that are coming, forty seven of them are from New Zealand.
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  Speaker 3: So I talked to Chris Bishop today and I said, well,
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  Speaker 3: hang on a second, this doesn't really sound like an
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  Speaker 3: international conference, and he said, well, the point is you
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  Speaker 3: want to get about half New Zealand half overseas in
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  Speaker 3: the room to be able to have these conversations.
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  Speaker 4: So it's the government that's facilitating it.
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  Speaker 3: They're the one that's up there talking about the various
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  Speaker 3: different projects that they want funding for. But there's are
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  Speaker 3: the delegates in the room that could be talking to
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  Speaker 3: each other, and the government wants to facilitate some of
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  Speaker 3: that capital flow.
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  Speaker 2: Now, obviously we can't, we shouldn't say where it's been held,
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  Speaker 2: but the government did say that it was oversubscribed. Remember
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  Speaker 2: when they came out and said it's oversubscribed and there's
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  Speaker 2: one hundred people. I'd like to know how many people
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  Speaker 2: the venue holds, you know, Well, how oversubscribed was it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well I talked to it, as I said, I talked
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  Speaker 3: to Chris Bishop again today and he said it was
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  Speaker 3: the hottest ticket in town and he had quite a
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  Speaker 3: few people actually lining up four tickets. I don't mean
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  Speaker 3: think he meant literally lining up, but it's yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: somewhere in Auckland, right.
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  Speaker 4: I wish I could tell you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going along tomorrow and I'm just going to look
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  Speaker 3: at an email and type that into the uber address
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  Speaker 3: and hopefully I get there. It is somewhere in Auckland,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm pretty sure they'll be able to handle. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's about one hundred people or one hundred companies
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  Speaker 3: that are represented.
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  Speaker 4: There'll be more people than that there.
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  Speaker 3: I would say they'd probably be closer to five hundred
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  Speaker 3: to seven hundred and fifty.
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  Speaker 2: All up, Okay, interesting stuff, Jason, thank you very much
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  Speaker 2: for that. I'm sure we'll hear more from you on
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