GREEN PARTY FISCAL PLAN 2026

Building an Aotearoa that works for all of us.

Our fully costed fiscal plan shows what productive government investment can achieve, including a plan to address the structural deficit in health.

Read the full plan here  Our plan for health

 

The Green Party fiscal plan 2026

Aotearoa New Zealand has more than enough resources, creativity, and skills to build an economy that works for all of us. What we have been lacking is the political courage to drive the economy to deliver real outcomes for everyone: healthy nature, good jobs with higher wages, resilient infrastructure, and more affordable bills. 

 

Our investments in public transport, clean energy, food security, resilience, science, innovation, and public services will lower the cost of living and support 64,000 new jobs in Aotearoa New Zealand’s economy.  

 

The Green Party would:

  

Commit to future operating allowances of $4.5b to $4.7b a year for the forecast period.

 

Pursue a revenue strategy that structurally increases the tax base and rebalances taxation towards capital over work and consumption. 

Deliver capital commitments per the Green Party policy announcements and fund other capital spending from within the forecast capital allowances.  

Return the books to surplus in 2029/2030.

The economic impacts are:

After four years our election policy investments would increase productive economic activity and add an additional 1% to GDP.

The investments in public transport, clean energy, food security, resilience, science, innovation, and public services will lower the cost of living and support 64,000 new jobs, on top of the 220,000modelled by Treasury, based on standard growth projections.

The transport investments will decrease exposure to fossil-fuel driven inflation, by providing options for transport mode-shifts.

Green Party fiscal plan 2026

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The Green Party fiscal plan will include a funding uplift to address the structural deficit in health.

The Green Party will invest an additional $3 billion a year for four years into the health system to credibly meet the needs and expectations of New Zealanders.

This investment will mean real increases in funding above the rate of population and demand growth, and provide the sustained investment needed for workforce, capacity, access and safe care, and work to deliver equity in health outcomes for Māori as envisioned in the Health Services and Outcomes Kaupapa Inquiry.


Stabilise hospitals and emergency care. 

Emergency departments are under sustained pressure; child cancer treatments are being delayed because of nursing shortages, and people are dying while waiting to be seen. The Green Party’s investment will work to restore timely patient flow through emergency departments and wards, facilitate timely discharge, expand urgent and inpatient capacity, and reduce unsafe delays.  

Strengthen primary, preventative and community care. 

Investment will shift the system beyond a state of managed decline, with stronger prevention and health promotion services and primary care (including dental), mental health, hauora Māori services, and new models of care that support people, whānau and communities earlier and closer to home.

Deliver a long-term health workforce plan.

This funding will develop, recruit and retain the full health workforce, from specialists, nurses, allied health and support workers to the ICT, administrative and operational staff who keep services running. The plan will set out a pathway to deliver safe staffing, stronger training pipelines, better retention, and a workforce able to meet future need.

Read our full fiscal plan here

Green Party fiscal plan 2026

*This plan has been prepared using the same economic and fiscal forecasts as the 2026 Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update (PREFU). Infometrics has independently analysed the plan’s first-order fiscal effects.

New Zealand does not have a Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) to assess political parties’ policies on the same basis, including their wider economic effects. The Green Party remains committed to establishing one, so that all parties’ election policies can be independently costed in future.

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