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Govt's 20k shovel-ready jobs promise 'too good to be true' - mayor


Waitomo Mayor John Robertson said the project was yet to break ground.
It hasn t started, it s still in the completion of a business plan process, and its proposer is a community trust and they re expecting the project will start in the next year.
He reckoned the initial forecast always seemed far-fetched.
The concept that you could put billions of dollars into communities through New Zealand and expect immediate, shovel-ready results on big infrastructure projects was a concept that really had a lot of risks because big projects are slow to get started - they need design, engineers, some of the skills were overseas . and so to get the stimulus for local communities to suddenly get employment it was somewhat unrealistic to expect jobs to be suddenly created in such quick time. ....

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Finance minister defends 8000 fewer jobs in shovel-ready projects


Finance minister defends 8000 fewer jobs in shovel-ready projects
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A regional mayor says the government s forecast of 20,000 new jobs through its multibillion-dollar shovel-ready projects scheme always seemed too good to be true.
Before last year s election, the government announced it would pump $2.6 billion into more than 150 shovel-ready projects to create jobs to kickstart the country s Covid-19 rebuild.
Pre-election, Finance Minister Grant Robertson touted a forecast that 20,000 jobs would result from the package.
But, in response to written parliamentary questions by Opposition MP Louise Upston, Robertson said the forecast was for 11,740 jobs, a drop of more than 8000.
Waitomo Mayor John Robertson said the project was yet to break ground. ....

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