Labour's leader is confident he'll find the money to meet his election promise of fixing up schools and hospitals.

The Party has pledged $400 million dollars to improving school buildings and grounds within 24 months. 

It'd put $200 million dollars into clearing a repair backlog for hospitals and clinics.

Chris Hipkins says the party is yet to release its fiscal plan, but a pot of money already exists. 

"This comes out of the Government's capital allowance - the current budget has a capital allowance of about $3.5 billion a year, so that's adding up to about $14 billion over the next four years. This commits about a quarter of that." 

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