Mark Patterson
About This Episode
Why do our best builders keep leaving, and can any government finally break the boom-bust cycle the construction industry is sick of?
In this Build Vote episode, Andy Alagappan sits down with Hon Mark Patterson, New Zealand First MP and Minister for Rural Communities, Associate Minister of Agriculture and Associate Minister for Regional Development.
They get into the Regional Infrastructure Fund and the Tukituki dam, the labour shortage and the brain drain to Australia and the Gulf, whether we still have the skills to build big dams, rural resilience after Cyclone Gabrielle, the wool procurement policy, adding value to our timber, PPPs, and his vision for New Zealand in 2050.
The Build Vote is Yarns with Andy’s non-partisan contribution to the election. We’re talking to voices from across the spectrum so the construction and infrastructure industry can hear where each of them stands. No endorsements, just the conversation.
