New Zealand's National Pest Management Plan for kauri dieback is incomplete, 3.5 years after government departments started working on it.
Budget 2021 allocated $28 million towards the plan.
But some kauri conservationists say the funding will be tied up in bureaucracy, not go to those working at the grassroots - and treeroots - level.
Reporter Sam Olley asked Biosecurity Minister Damien O'Connor about the delays, and where the budget money will go.
