Winston Peters: newly-appointed Minister for Rail on the Government's new Cook Strait ferry plan
Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive · Newstalk ZB
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Winston Peters is tip-toeing around whether New Zealand First will get the rail-enabled Cook Strait ferries it campaigned for.
The Government has announced it'll set up a new company to procure new Interislander vessels - and has made Peters the Minister for Rail.
It's almost a year since the coalition scrapped Labour's contract for buying two mega-ferries that would have joined up rail across the two islands.
Nicola Willis says the new ferries will be smaller and rail-capable, but not fully rail enabled.
Peters says he's conceded nothing.
He says he's taken on railways in the past - and dramatically turned them around - and people should ask the Maritime Union if they have confidence in him.
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