1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:01,359 Speaker 1: Bryan Bridge. 2 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:05,160 Speaker 2: Palmerston North Mayor Grant Smith has spoken out against a 3 00:00:05,160 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 2: proposal to ban the sale of fizzy drinks. It's some 4 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 2: major sport venues in the city. Council staff put the 5 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:13,000 Speaker 2: proposal to the council as a way of improving oral 6 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:16,479 Speaker 2: health in the region. The mayor says people should be 7 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 2: able to make their own decisions about what they can 8 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 2: purchase and drink. Now. Brent Barnett, Sorry, Brent Barrett is 9 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:26,159 Speaker 2: a Palmeston North City councilor and he is with me 10 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:26,840 Speaker 2: this evening. 11 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:30,479 Speaker 1: Hello, Brent, Hey, how are you going good? 12 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 2: Thank you? Whose mad idea was this? 13 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:35,879 Speaker 1: Yeah, So we've taken a proposal out to the community 14 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,120 Speaker 1: and it strengthens a position that we were in in 15 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. And the reason for that is that we 16 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:44,040 Speaker 1: know there is a direct line between sugar and the 17 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: kind of pressure that comes on our health system through 18 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 1: writing to use diabetes, et cetera. We want to see 19 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 1: is their community appetite for any kind of change? 20 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 2: So do you support the change? Do you support banning 21 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 2: you know, a coke zero a coke or a pepsi 22 00:00:57,480 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: or whatever at the council venue. 23 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: But I'd like to see us find ways to reduce 24 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 1: the harm that sugar causes in the community. So I'm 25 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: open to options there and I appreciate the community feedback here. 26 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: It's given me some thinking about some way as we 27 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:12,840 Speaker 1: might approach it. 28 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,199 Speaker 2: But how so, because a lot of people are talking 29 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 2: about the children and their teeth, the tooth decay, how 30 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 2: is stopping someone having a coke at the Palmerston North 31 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:24,559 Speaker 2: Conventions into going and fix that problem? 32 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:27,600 Speaker 1: Do you think what it's going to do is a 33 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 1: couple of things. It would if it goes ahead, send 34 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: a signal out broadly to the community that hey, just 35 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: another reminder of these things aren't the healthiest and that's 36 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: probably the strongest thing that it would do. And obviously 37 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,480 Speaker 1: it would change what would happen in the venue itself. 38 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 2: Aren't you just killing the fun? 39 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: I think what we're doing at this point is listening 40 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: to the community. So the communities come back to so 41 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: what their preferences are. Am I thinking is that we 42 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: need to listen to that. And it happened to whether 43 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: eruptions will take because it's like won't. 44 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 2: But it's like it's eighty percent again, So if you're listening, 45 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,440 Speaker 2: then the answer would be a big wouldn't it. 46 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,679 Speaker 1: Well, I think sometimes what you're faced with is that 47 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: the right thing isn't always the popular thing. And I'm 48 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:16,959 Speaker 1: coming to the meeting with an open minded march and 49 00:02:17,080 --> 00:02:18,119 Speaker 1: see where the debate goes. 50 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 2: Well, that's a big one. Thank you very much for that. 51 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 2: Nice to have you on the program. That's Brent Barrett. 52 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:27,799 Speaker 2: He's the Palmerston North City councilor sometimes the right thing 53 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 2: isn't always the popular thing. For more from Hither Duplessy 54 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 2: Allen Drive, listen live to news talks. 55 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 1: It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast 56 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:38,959 Speaker 1: on iHeartRadio.