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Speaker 1: Barry Soper, Senior political correspondence with US Now, Hay Barry,

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, have guilty? Does transpower look well?

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you Simeon Brown was up and fung array.

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Speaker 2: Today He's ordered the Electricity Authority to review the collapse

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Speaker 2: of the pylon, and he also said that the government

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Speaker 2: may consider setting up an independent inquiry. I'm gonna I'm

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Speaker 2: going to volunteer to head that inquiry because I could

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Speaker 2: tell them what happened. Now, money for Jim, yeah, and

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Speaker 2: then take three months like they always do with inquiries.

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Speaker 2: And as you say, it's money for Jim, you only

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Speaker 2: have to look at it, and you don't have to

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Speaker 2: be an engineer. You have to have a little bit

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Speaker 2: of common sense. Not even that. I've studied the pylon

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Speaker 2: and the two plates that are in the ear that

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Speaker 2: once held the pilon one side of it down. There

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Speaker 2: are sixteen holes still very clean. And I'll tell you bolts, yes, exactly.

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Speaker 2: If they had wrenched out of the ground, the bolts

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Speaker 2: these plates would be severely damaged. But they're in perfect conditions.

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Speaker 2: So inquiry overdone.

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Speaker 1: And I mean it's a pity. It's a pity for

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Speaker 1: Alison Andrew and her attempt to avoid answering that question

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Speaker 1: today that this entire country is made up of di

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Speaker 1: wires and we pretty much understand how that works.

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Speaker 2: You have to look suggesting your listeners that are unsure

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Speaker 2: about to guard to have a look a photograph. Now,

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Speaker 2: it did knock out though power to or one hundred

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Speaker 2: thousand users, and that's significant. Thirty thousand was still off

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Speaker 2: still in the dark last night. You imagine if you

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Speaker 2: had a freezer full of food and you're still out

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Speaker 2: of power, you'd be a.

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Speaker 1: Bit concerned of the ice cream there.

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Speaker 2: Brown was there, as I said today, and he said

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Speaker 2: the event was totally unacceptable.

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Speaker 3: Everyone's been doing their bit, but to be honest, it's

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Speaker 3: completely unacceptable what happened yesterday. You know, pylon should not

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Speaker 3: just fall down. That is something which should not happen

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Speaker 3: in New Zealand outside of a major type of event.

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Speaker 3: So we need to get to the bottom of what happened,

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Speaker 3: understand the facts. There needs to be accountability for that

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Speaker 3: and appropriate actions to follow for those reviews. Transpasmatical people

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Speaker 3: were working on that particular pilon at the time. There's

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Speaker 3: an investigation in a way in regards to what Transpower

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Speaker 3: is doing but look, we're looking at some of the

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Speaker 3: wider issues as well, and we want to make sure

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Speaker 3: that there is appropriate accountability.

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Speaker 2: So I wonder what form that will take. You shouldn't

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Speaker 2: take bolts out of plates holding pilon.

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Speaker 1: I feel like somebody may need to go and find

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Speaker 1: a new job, you know what I mean, one that doesn't.

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Speaker 2: Involve drills, honestly.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Now what do they do about the cancer drugs?

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Speaker 1: How do they get them purchased?

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Speaker 2: Well, like you said that they will the ministers consider

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Speaker 2: it on Monday, and I would imagine that National is

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Speaker 2: ruining the day that it made the promise during the

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Speaker 2: election campaign that it would fund the these thirteen drugs.

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Speaker 2: So you know, you've outlined the three options. I've talked

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Speaker 2: to people in the industry today and it seems that

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Speaker 2: what will happen on Monday. A considerable amount of money

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Speaker 2: will be offered, well not offered. It would be given

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Speaker 2: to Farmac six hundred million dollars they're talking about, and

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Speaker 2: you can imagine behind the scenes, and again this doesn't

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Speaker 2: take a rocket scientist, but behind the scenes, the government

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Speaker 2: will make it clear that some of this money and

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Speaker 2: I know they've got lists and you're absolutely right, Farmac,

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Speaker 2: But they would I think Farmac would be ignoring reality

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Speaker 2: if it didn't realize what the government would want to chase.

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Speaker 1: Here are you suggesting that the government's going to say

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Speaker 1: to them, here's six hundred million dollars for you, Farmac,

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Speaker 1: you wonderful independent agency who does nothing that we tell

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Speaker 1: them to do by the drugs?

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Speaker 2: Yep? Absolutely, And I think that's what will happen.

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Speaker 1: And Sarah fit because she's so desperate to keep her

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Speaker 1: job and not be fired. Would she tell us? And

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Speaker 1: of course, are you then also suggesting that having Paula

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Speaker 1: Bennett a friendly on the board would be quite helpful.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely? So okay, yep, so we'll see it. It'll be

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Speaker 2: good because people that desperately need these cancer drugs, right,

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Speaker 2: we'll finally get them.

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Speaker 1: The Darling Tana allegation, I think is the most the

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Speaker 1: most interesting thing about it is that there are text

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Speaker 1: messages which show that she was involved in the hiring

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Speaker 1: of people on visas that are a little bit dodgy,

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Speaker 1: and it ties her to what was going on.

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Speaker 2: Well, not even a little bit dodgy. I mean there

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Speaker 2: was a worker that was on a seasonal work visa,

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Speaker 2: which limits workers to being involved in the horticulture and

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Speaker 2: viticultural industries. But she said in these texts that the

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Speaker 2: worker should in fact stay on in the bike shop. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: her husband was running and even during the COVID lockdown,

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Speaker 2: as she said it was essential work. I don't know

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Speaker 2: why electric bikes are essential work during the COVID lockdowns,

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Speaker 2: but nevertheless, that apparently was said. She's now been what

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Speaker 2: over three months off work on full pay. I think

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Speaker 2: the Greens are really, I don't know, going beyond any

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Speaker 2: tolerance the public should have of them here, because you

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Speaker 2: know this length of time, rachel Bert will be having

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Speaker 2: a ball. She's a barrister and she's associated now well yeah,

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Speaker 2: and associated with the Green Party. And this has dragged

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Speaker 2: on for far too long. I've constantly texted Chloe Swarbrick.

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Speaker 2: She did reply to me up until the point, and

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Speaker 2: she's ghosting you now. It's basically the muss will be

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Speaker 2: texting myself because I get no replyed to Chloe.

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Speaker 1: It's so thank you, Barry, appreciate it. We'll rap the

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Speaker 1: political week that was quarter past six of you again,

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Speaker 1: that very so senior political correspondent.

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