There has been both criticism and praise for the National Party's newly announced social investment fund policy.
The policy would see the private sector and philanthropists called on to lend a corporate hand in what a National-led government would create as its Social Investment Agency.
For the critics at least, it sounds rather like what another former National finance minister, Sir Bill English, put forward.
Commentator and lawyer Liam Hehir and economist Max Rashbrooke spoke to Guyon Espiner.
