"We're aware, we don't have a Ministry of Works, so the government always contracts with the private sector to build things."

#BarbaraEdmonds, Labour finance spokesperson, 2025

So your policy is to rebuild the Ministry of Works, so Aotearoa has the capacity to build out own public infrastructure again, right? Without handing over millions of dollars in private profits to an oligopoly of giant construction corporations.

Oh you're not? Why?