About $7 Billion Of Infrastructure Investment decision In The South Island Vital To Labour’s Economic Strategy

Jacinda Ardern
Labour Chief
MP for Mt
Albert

Grant Robertson
Finance
spokesperson

The Labour Bash will carry on to create
on its strong record of expense in infrastructure in the
South Island to generate economic stimulus and
positions.

“The impacts of COVID-19 have produced it clear
that we will need a solid platform of infrastructure investment
throughout the region to give regions certainty and to give
a pipeline for work across the region,” Jacinda Ardern
mentioned.

“A main portion of our financial approach to tackle
debt and rebuild from COVID-19 is infrastructure.

If
re-elected, Labour will go on rolling out more than $7
billion of infrastructure financial commitment in the South Island
which will produce thousands of direct and indirect employment in
just about every group in the area.

Our investment begins
with shovel completely ready initiatives that will roll out more than the upcoming
18 months, such as:

• Weather resilience offers
  in Otago, Southland, West Coast and the Prime of the South –
  $72m
• Most cancers Society – Christchurch Setting up
  Project – $6.5m
• Mechanical Depots – Waltham –
  $39m
• YMCA Christchurch Central Town Advancement –
  $43m
• Ashburton District Library and Civic Centre –
  $20m
• Youth Hub Christchurch – $10m
• Key
  cycleway routes in Canterbury – $71.5m
• Queenstown
  Arterials Stage 1 – $50m
• Queenstown Town Centre –
  $35m
• Invercargill internal town redevelopment –
  $10m
• Blenheim Library/Art Gallery – $11m
• The
  Whale Path Kaikōura – $18m
• Slope Balance –
  Omoto Slip KiwiRail Holdings Team – $13m
• Hokitika
  Swimming Pool Renovation – $3m

Next these
investments, our pipeline of infrastructure will continue to
aid the location around time, like
by means of:

• Relocating professional mental well being
  expert services from the Princess Margaret Hospital to Hillmorton
  in Christchurch – $81.8m
• New linear accelerators for
  Canterbury DHB – $4.17m
• New Dunedin Clinic –
  $1.325b
• Improvement of Buller Built-in Health
  Centre in Westport – $21m
• South Island three waters
  providers and infrastructure maintenance and upgrades
  –
• $206.7
• SH88 Dunedin to Port Chalmers
  Basic safety Improvements – $30m
• Opening of all lanes of
  the Christchurch Southern Motorway (2nd phase) –
  $195m
• Christchurch Northern Motorway (anticipated to
  open in December) – $290 million
• Ashburton College or university –
  $50m
• Mount Aspiring Faculty –
  $46.5m
• Ellesmere College or university – $29m
• Wakatipu
  main faculty – $17m
• Redcliffs University –
  $13.7m
• Golden Bay Large University – $12m
• Oxford
  Place Faculty – $10m

“Our prudent
economic management about the past three many years indicates we have
been in a position to spend considerably in transport initiatives,
educational facilities, water infrastructure and hospitals around the
place, tackling on our extensive-phrase worries and rebuilding
again much better,” Jacinda Ardern
mentioned.

“We stand proudly on our history
of investment in our locations and will go on to help the
South Island thrive,” Jacinda Ardern reported.

“As a
government we will proceed to devote in money over and above this
financial commitment, significantly in wellness, schooling and by means of
local governing administration, but our allotted expenditure to day exhibits
a pipeline of infrastructure investments that we will roll
out throughout the South Island,” Grant Robertson
said.

“We’ve managed the publications wisely and have
historically reduced curiosity premiums, which makes our substantially-wanted
financial commitment in infrastructure both equally cost-effective and the correct
issue to do,” Grant Robertson
reported.

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