National's finance spokesman Steven Joyce is putting pressure on Finance Minister Grant Robertson to "front up quickly with the cost of this coalition".
"Mr Robertson has done two long-form interviews over this weekend and yet New Zealanders are still none the wiser about the cost of the coalition's programme and the impact on their back pockets," Mr Joyce, a former finance minister says.
He says Mr Robertson has access to advice about the costs of policies but doesn't want to reveal the numbers.
"New Zealand's healthy government accounts are the product of the hard work of millions of Kiwis. They are entitled to know how much has gone out of their collective pockets in the process of forming this government.
"They also have a right to know whether the new government's spending plans in actual dollars will match the cast-iron commitments Labour repeatedly made before the election."
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