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Speaker 1: But Nelson, they had their day in the sun yesterday,

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Speaker 1: no pun intended given them. Weather was of course rope,

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Speaker 1: but the beg guns also came to town. They announced

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Speaker 1: the details around that new hospital. Half a billion is

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Speaker 1: being plowed into redevelopment. Nick Smith, of course, is the

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Speaker 1: mayor of the city and is with us. Nick morning

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Speaker 1: to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning. We were a great day yesterday and we're

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Speaker 2: very welcoming of the announcement.

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Speaker 1: Are you still in gum boots? Are you sorted out there? Oh?

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Speaker 2: We had a torrential rainstorm for a couple of hours

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Speaker 2: yesterday morning at height toward It did cause some damage.

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Speaker 2: Reminder of the investment that councils need to make an

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Speaker 2: upgrading our stormwater infrastructure, but no major damage.

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Speaker 1: Might good As regards the hospital, Is it one of

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Speaker 1: those things that's going to go on forever and get

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Speaker 1: changed along the way, or are you confident something's going

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Speaker 1: to happen.

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Speaker 2: Well, The plans that were announced by the government yesterday

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Speaker 2: are involving new and patient building. It'll be the largest

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Speaker 2: building ever built in Nelson at eleven thousand square meters,

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Speaker 2: you know, one hundred and twenty eight beds. New pharmacy

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Speaker 2: new blood bank, new heavy paired, new medical assessment. It's

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Speaker 2: a massive commitment and alongside it as big upgrades of

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Speaker 2: the infrastructure, new energy center, new parking building, and already

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Speaker 2: we have a new emergency department underway. Nelson Health Services

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Speaker 2: have been under real pressure. The old buildings go back

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Speaker 2: to fifty five nineteen seventy, are earthquake prone, increasing levels

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Speaker 2: of frustration that nothing was happening. A real red letter day,

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Speaker 2: not just to have the commitment for the over five

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Speaker 2: hundred million to do the job, but also very encouraged

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Speaker 2: by this notion of a thirty two bed temporary modular

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Speaker 2: inpatient ward. It's the first for New Zealand. The big

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Speaker 2: game for us in that is that our waiting lists

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Speaker 2: are long because of the shortage of beds. The project's

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Speaker 2: not due for completion the major project till twenty nine.

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Speaker 2: It gives us some immediate relief, but also because the

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Speaker 2: plan involves the earthquake strengthening of a couple of the

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Speaker 2: existing tower blocks, there's been real challenge and getting that

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Speaker 2: work done while those hospitals are still being used, and

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Speaker 2: so it just enables the redevelopment to be able to

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Speaker 2: be done really well. That extra announcement was really the

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Speaker 2: icing on the cake.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic good to hear the good news and I appreciate

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Speaker 1: it very much. Next s Meith, the mayor of Nelson.

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