Point of Order: Finance Minister is coy about costs of trains for lower North Island ....

......while Health Minister may hope to bamboozle Buller people

Our hard-working big-spending ministers have added to the list of announcements which make demands on the public purse, since Point of Order last checked the government’s official website.

But a statement released in the names of Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Transport Minister Michael Wood is astonishingly bereft of hard data related to the costs of the initiative that enthuses them.