Lastly, this appropriation includes a significant amount of money on consultants, contractors, and bureaucrats. There were 14,000 more bureaucrats in the last five years; $34 million on consultants and contractors on an advertising campaign for three waters, which was absolutely wasteful spending. One and a half billion dollars is the cost for those additional bureaucrats and that excludes front-line teachers, front-line nurses. The National Party oppose this bill. 