But what did they do with the $1.62 million per annum that was to go to the institutes of technology and polytechnics? Well, once it would have gone out to them and they would have straightaway got it into student services. But this time, and for anyone who's worried about what happens when there is centralisation, that money went to the mega-merger polytechnic institute Te Pūkenga. That slow, cumbersome, bureaucratic morass has sat with the money and they are still in discussions with the Ministry of Health about how to use it. Remember, this was money for student services that was announced in July of last year and is still sitting, waiting to be allocated. 