Hon GRANT ROBERTSON (Minister of Finance): I am confident that the spending is justified, given the one-in-100-year shock to the global and New Zealand economies. The spending has given us the ability to go hard and early against COVID19 to keep New Zealanders safe, to allow our economy to open up sooner, and to support the economic recovery by protecting jobs and investing to create new jobs. I'm also confident that we are providing certainty to industry by ensuring funding is available for the projects that we are announcing. 