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Speaker 1: Get back to work. That's the message from the government

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Speaker 1: to civil servants and affairs of productivity, loss, diving off

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Speaker 1: and CBD cafes and restaurants going to the wall. Lots

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Speaker 1: of your texts on this first though, Alistair Boyce, Oh sorry,

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Speaker 1: here's Nichola Willis.

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Speaker 2: Choosing not to come to your physical place of work

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Speaker 2: does have an impact on your team and your wider community.

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Speaker 2: If it's possible for you to work in the office,

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Speaker 2: you should.

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Speaker 1: Alistair Boyce is the ban backbench of pub owner and

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Speaker 1: he's with us this morning. Good morning, Alistair, good Ryan.

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Speaker 3: Good to hear from you again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good to have you on the show. Tell me

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Speaker 1: will this make a difference?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely, We've really been missing our our key clients

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Speaker 3: from the public sector. But we're fubably with Nikola Willis

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Speaker 3: and what she's saying and we also agree with it.

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Speaker 3: It's about the outcomes of the public sector. It's not

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Speaker 3: all about getting Wellington moving again, because there's some other

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Speaker 3: real vicious problems going on in the Wellington microeconomy. Absolutely

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Speaker 3: apart from the civil servants with the work from home saga,

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Speaker 3: what do you think?

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Speaker 1: And we'll get to those in a sect. But what

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Speaker 1: do you think has been more damaging the civil service

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Speaker 1: cuts from National or the work from home policy that's

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Speaker 1: been lingering since COVID.

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Speaker 3: Our work from home without a doubt.

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Speaker 1: And what are the other issues you're talking about in Wellington?

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Speaker 3: Well these are more related to our dysfunctional city council

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Speaker 3: where they destroy our businesses. And as you know, most

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Speaker 3: small businesses do try and get locations on arterial routes

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Speaker 3: and busy foot traffic streets. But what they've done with

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Speaker 3: all these streets has rip them up, put in cycleways

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Speaker 3: and cut us off from our customers. And the next

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Speaker 3: one they're planning to do it all the way on

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Speaker 3: Courtney Place, which will cut out cars as well. The

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Speaker 3: other thing I've cut out is a huge, huge amount

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Speaker 3: of car parks. And they've done roadworks on theorial routes

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Speaker 3: and formed in keys to Classic which will be going

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Speaker 3: on for some years. And they'd already done at a

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Speaker 3: key and that those roadworks took about eight months. Multiple problems.

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Speaker 1: How much have your rates gone up?

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's the other thing. The disposable income of Wellington

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Speaker 3: citizens and residents is now coming to an all time low.

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Speaker 3: So most of us have endured over twenty percent increase

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Speaker 3: in rates this year. The long term plan is patently ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: It's got over ten percent, over fifteen percent and increases

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Speaker 3: despite the Maya telling us that decreases then increases planned

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Speaker 3: for ten years, is never going to be a decrease.

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Speaker 3: And what this does kills the wider economy so that

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Speaker 3: they don't have the disposable income for the hospitality and

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Speaker 3: retail centers, and they don't come in to town because

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Speaker 3: they have access and parking issues.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I won't ask you the question, Alistair, but

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Speaker 1: I would hate to think. I would hate to imagine

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Speaker 1: what the combination of all of these things is doing

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Speaker 1: to business, the value of the business in Wellington right

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Speaker 1: now as well. Thank you very much for your time

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Speaker 1: this morning. Appreciate you burning up earlier with me, Alistair,

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Speaker 1: Boyce backbencher, pub owner.

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