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Speaker 1: So the international visitor levy went up today. Yesterday it

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Speaker 1: costs tourists thirty five bucks to enter the country. Today

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Speaker 1: it's going to sting them one hundred bucks. And now

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Speaker 1: councils want to share of that new money. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's put this honestly, they want all of

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Speaker 1: that new money. It all to do is Mayor Tanya

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Speaker 1: tapsle is with us now, Heitania, good morning. Councils are dreaming,

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Speaker 1: aren't they, Tania.

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Speaker 2: I We've got to try. We've got to try. Look,

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Speaker 2: can I congratulate our Ministers of Tourism and Conservation on

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Speaker 2: finding a way to increase investment into tourism. But you know,

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Speaker 2: councils are the ones that actually invest in this infrastructure,

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Speaker 2: that's our local rate players. I think it's fair enough

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Speaker 2: to say, hey, can you share the love?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I can see that, and there'll be

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Speaker 1: a lot of sympathy for that. If you were to

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Speaker 1: if they were to come around to the idea of

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Speaker 1: giving you the sixty five bucks, which is obviously not

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Speaker 1: going to happen, how would you share that any case?

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Speaker 2: Well, look for us, it's back to basics. So for

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Speaker 2: a government that's asking us to invest in orders and

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Speaker 2: core infrastructure. It's things like public toilets. But you know,

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Speaker 2: even in Mackenzie District, just to clean the public toilets

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Speaker 2: it's used by tourists. Added one percent to this year's

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Speaker 2: rights bill, so it is quite significant for us to

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Speaker 2: maintain these facilities and also the environment that tourists use. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The difficulty that you guys have got, obviously is that

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Speaker 1: councils not necessarily yours time. Yeah, but other councils are

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Speaker 1: doing quite a good job of telling the public that

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Speaker 1: you guys don't know how to spend money.

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Speaker 2: Would you accept that, Yeah, I would accept that it

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Speaker 2: or should is doing a pretty good job. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: other places we haven't seen great investment and infrastructure. But

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Speaker 2: the reality is we don't get enough money to do

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Speaker 2: so we rely on our local community.

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Speaker 1: Is the difficulty, right? If you guys aren't getting enough money,

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Speaker 1: and I accept you don't have enough money, then how

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Speaker 1: on earth have you got councils like Hasting's District Council

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Speaker 1: deciding to give unelected youth voting rights and paying them

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Speaker 1: for that right. How have you got councils like Wellington

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Speaker 1: City Council deciding to spend about six hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: on redesigning the footpath for a bi crack. If you

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Speaker 1: don't have enough money, you shouldn't have enough money for

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Speaker 1: that stuff.

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Speaker 2: Well, the importance is the request will be ring fenced,

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Speaker 2: So we're saying that International visitor Levey, if you give

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Speaker 2: us a share of that, it will be ring sense

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Speaker 2: for tourism infrastructure only, which is a pretty massive issue

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Speaker 2: for many of us. So in order to do our

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Speaker 2: populations well almost eighty thousand. We get over ten thousand

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Speaker 2: visitors a day when we're in our peak season, So

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Speaker 2: it makes sense for us to not burden our local communities,

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Speaker 2: which some of our communities across the country that get

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Speaker 2: a lot of tourists do not actually highly populated areas,

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Speaker 2: which is one of the big concerns. And we're just saying, hey, look,

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Speaker 2: instead of this getting stucked up into conservation areas, potentially

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Speaker 2: predator programs on remote islands in places, let's just make

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Speaker 2: sure there's transparency on where the money goes. Local councils

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Speaker 2: can help with that.

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Speaker 1: How do you rate your chances.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna give it a go. We give it a go.

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Speaker 2: I think it's an important issue. We love our homes,

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Speaker 2: we love our environment. Not just for visitors, also for locals.

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Speaker 2: We need to make sure that they're keeping up there.

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Speaker 1: Good on. God loves to try it, Donya, thank you

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