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Speaker 1: I sort of hinted at this the other day when

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Speaker 1: the monitor for the Wellington City Council put out a

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Speaker 1: second report. Now my question was given there was leaking

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Speaker 1: and dysfunction still and the punter allegedly was at their

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Speaker 1: wits end. What now, eh? What now? Do we just

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Speaker 1: get more and more reports? Well Lo and behold another

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Speaker 1: Wellington Operations had their own monitor in the form of

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Speaker 1: the Commerce Commission. Yes, the aforementioned Commerce Commission, who have

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Speaker 1: been brought in to oversee the mess at Wellington Water.

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Speaker 1: Now the Minister has not seen any improvement, apparently no

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Speaker 1: real change and unless stuff happens, there are rate rises

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Speaker 1: gil or for no real gain, or so he says.

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Speaker 1: So once again we ask what do the Commerce Commission do?

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Speaker 1: Do they write reports as well? And if those reports

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Speaker 1: tell us the place is still as shambles, how many

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Speaker 1: reports does it take for someone somewhere to actually fire

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Speaker 1: up a little bit of action. I can also add,

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Speaker 1: and this is an overarching observation, just how dysfunctional does

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Speaker 1: Wellington need to get before it literally implodes on itself.

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Speaker 1: The electric changes last week they were all in Wellington.

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Speaker 1: Why because people have left And to be Frank who

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Speaker 1: can blame them. Then we come to Tamotha Paul, who

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Speaker 1: made what most observers seemed to suggest was one of

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Speaker 1: the most extraordinary comments about the police anyone's ever heard. Ever,

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Speaker 1: her good friends and labor called them stupid, the Prime

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Speaker 1: Minister call her insane, and yet she holds an electorate,

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Speaker 1: as I mentioned to by a mimet ago are the

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Speaker 1: good people of Wellington Central And by no small margin,

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Speaker 1: I might add, they looked at her credentials, they decided

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Speaker 1: all they liked. They liked her enough to vote for her.

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Speaker 1: Sir Wellington, what's the story? Eh? What level of madness

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Speaker 1: and dysfunction are you willing to tolerate before change comes?

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Speaker 1: Is change ever coming? Do you actually want change? Do

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Speaker 1: you mind paying a lot more than you need to

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Speaker 1: for stuff that doesn't work? I mean it's a crummy council,

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Speaker 1: a lot of broken pipes in a mad mpok. As

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Speaker 1: long as I don't know you, cycle ways are fun

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Speaker 1: to ride on. Did I mention the trains can't beat

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Speaker 1: Wellington on a good day? So when Wellington was your

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Speaker 1: last good day? And why are you putting up with it?

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