Finance Minister Bill English says Thursday's Budget won't be exciting - but he is proud of it nonetheless.
"It is designed to be less exciting," he told reporters this morning at the Budget printing plant in Petone.
"A lot of the announcements are about Government getting on with business right through the year, rather than hinging everything on a budget.
"We've got the public service working that way. For a lot of them now, the Budget's not that important other than to confirm their funding because the serious issues they are grappling with are not about more money," he said.
"A lot of Government agencies are grappling with quite complex problem solving and, if anything, more money is a bit of a distraction for them."