It was promoted as a once-in-a-lifetime chance to upgrade health infrastructure. But just getting the money out the door seems to be taking an age.
Auckland's contentious cycle bridge is not included in government's latest transport spending plan.
Umbers has worked in New Zealand before.
Turning Skellerup around proved to be a long hard slog in which changes took years to pay off.
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