Fletcher Buildings Golden Bay Cement is New Zealand’s only cement manufacturing facility, supplying alost 60 percent of the cement used here. I’m happy for the State to step in and nationalise critical infrastructure, but if we’ve got $60million to bail out Fletchers, then we money to pay for our arts. Art isn’t a nice to have, it is an essential quality of life. Human Beings able to show the world their unique vision enriches and builds us all just as much as that concrete does. Art is beauty, sadness, joy and truth.