The Prime Minister's faced a grilling in Parliament this afternoon over the Government decision to build a 700 million dollar cycle and walkway adjacent to the Auckland Harbour Bridge.

Jacinda Ardern says it's estimated it will accommodate up to 3,000 cyclists a day and 2000 walkers.

But, Ardern says that's just an estimate and she expects Aucklanders to increasingly use the facility.

Meanwhile, several National MPs say they disagree with comments from their education spokesman Paul Goldsmith that colonisation "on balance" had been a good thing for Māori.

Goldsmith has been taking aim at the proposed New Zealand history curriculum which has a focus on teaching colonisation and its impacts, particularly on Māori, and topics such as white privilege.

In a Newshub interview over the weekend when asked if the good had outweighed the bad for Māori through colonisation, Goldsmith said "on balance it has, yes".

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