Don't get me wrong, there were some issues: a small number of polytechnics not operating in a business-like manner; some too small to be viable on their own; a funding system not meeting needs; unhelpful competition between industry training organisations and industry training providers; and, most significantly, a multitude of different ways that funding had been stripped out of the polytech sector over successive years—base grants, degree top-ups, funding of clinical placements, adult and community education funding. The list goes on and on to amount to tens of millions of dollars taken out of the polytech sector until one day Minister Hipkins disingenuously said, "This sector is broken. I know how to fix it. I'll amalgamate them all, cause enormous anxiety and disarray, even though I have done no modelling on how this will fix the problems, and the feedback from the consultation says, overwhelmingly, it will not."