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Speaker 1: So welcome to our new fast track world. This is

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Speaker 1: where parliamentarians have been given the right to approve projects

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Speaker 1: they reckon good for the country. Last night, Chris Bishop

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Speaker 1: was talking to Ryan on the Drive Show and he

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Speaker 1: was talking about what they originally had. He referred to

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Speaker 1: himself and Sibby and Brown and Shane Jones as the troika,

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Speaker 1: and I had to laugh. Troyker is a Russian word

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Speaker 1: referring to three parties being a ruling body, and those

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Speaker 1: three under the original legislation were a ruling body. So

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Speaker 1: he knew right from the start the remarkable power he

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Speaker 1: was giving himself. But that power has been watered down

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Speaker 1: a little bit to stop people using words like Troy

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Speaker 1: Keep Chris, but anyway, But the underlying concern about the

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Speaker 1: ultimate power that rests and parliamentarians for making these sorts

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Speaker 1: of decisions continue because we all know projects that have

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Speaker 1: been disasters. We all know projects that have contained unintended consequences.

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Speaker 1: We know projects that have favored investors and not the community.

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Speaker 1: We're also aware of many projects run by cowboys that

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Speaker 1: we regretted. We know of suburbs built in flood zones.

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Speaker 1: We know of dams built in unstable land, various INFI

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Speaker 1: nightmare is up and down the country, and environmentally affecting

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Speaker 1: runoffs from industry that have poisoned our waterways. And all

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Speaker 1: that happened when regulation was in place. But now well,

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Speaker 1: regulation is still in place, but the ministers and the

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Speaker 1: parliamentarians get the final word after consultation. I remember talking

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Speaker 1: to a city planner in Auckland and this guy said,

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Speaker 1: there's a handful of developers in the city who get

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Speaker 1: their consents in a month every time. Why because their

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Speaker 1: application is We're perfect and compliant from the get go.

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Speaker 1: Many others go back and forth and then start to

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Speaker 1: complain about the level of red tape as they try

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Speaker 1: to circumvent the rules. These days, construction costs are worse

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Speaker 1: than legal costs, so any corners they can cut in

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Speaker 1: the planning process they will cut. However, like everybody, I

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Speaker 1: totally understand that we went far too far the other

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Speaker 1: way and we totally need to be able to progress

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Speaker 1: and to get stuffed down. So you have to support

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Speaker 1: the new Act and hope that you know they do

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Speaker 1: it well. But I would warn the politicians pushing it

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Speaker 1: that bad decisions will affect your legacy. You don't want

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Speaker 1: to be the guy who approved the place that actually

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Speaker 1: ended up breaking down and polluting an entire lake, etc.

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Speaker 1: Et cetera. Do you now? And I also warn everybody

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Speaker 1: that politicians and public servants don't have a great track

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Speaker 1: record so far at picking the right horses. And if

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Speaker 1: you want an example, how about solar zero and what

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Speaker 1: happened last week? For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,

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