Hon GRANT ROBERTSON: Infrastructure New Zealand CEO Paul Blair said that the Government's $12 million infrastructure programme is a fantastic start towards building the infrastructure New Zealand needs to realise its potential. The additional spending and multi-year nature of the package should provide the sector with the confidence to ramp up recruitment, training, and capital investment, with more yet to come. Along the same lines, the New Zealand arm of global engineering and design consultancy WSP has said it will dramatically increase its recruitment staff, hiring hundreds of planners, designers, and engineers to support its role in projects within the New Zealand Upgrade Programme. It is great to see the sector getting behind this package.