The Minister for Economy and Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says they have spent $208 million to recover from Cyclone Winston.
Sayed-Khaiyum highlighted this during the 2017/2018 Budget Public Consultation in Tavua.
He says $132 million is going to be spent on building schools.
Sayed-Khaiyum says if we did not have cyclone Winston, we would have saved $208 million at least from the budget.
He says they are running government like a business just like how a household runs its own budget.
Sayed-Khaiyum says they have spent $88 million in the first phase of Help for Homes initiative and then $20 million in the second phase and now $25 million that was announced for the third phase last week.
He says government has been very tight wherever they can be and has been spending money in the right places.
