From the Otago Daily Times today:

Grant Robertson has accused the Finance Minister of playing cheap politics over the escalating cost of portside infrastructure needed for KiwiRail’s new Cook Strait mega ferries. Finance Minister Nicola Willis has revealed the potential cost to the taxpayer is now many times what the Government initially signed up to and said the situation was “deeply troubling”.

“I am concerned that this blow-out reflects casual incompetence by the outgoing Government in its approach to the scoping, management and delivery of major infrastructure projects.

“Our Government will be much more careful stewards of taxpayers’ money,” Willis told the New Zealand Herald last night.

Today, Labour finance spokesman Grant Robertson said Willis was wrong and it was KiwiRail that owned and managed the project.

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/cheap-politics-labour-fires-back-over-ferry-blowout

Just what the ‘many times’ actually means remains to be revealed but will be soon as the new government gets into the books to blame Labour for everything they can. The UK Labour Party is even further right than the New Zealand National Party.