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Speaker 1: Barry soperwer Senior political correspondence with me in the studio. Hey, Barry,

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Speaker 1: good afternoon, Heather.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: So the farm Ac announcement as you predicted.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I said on Friday, there will be six hundred

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Speaker 3: million dollars on the table. Farmac will be given the money.

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Speaker 3: They'll be told you've got to cough up for the

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Speaker 3: cancer drugs that we said that we were going to

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Speaker 3: deliver during the election campaign.

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Speaker 1: Can't tell us to make that farm MacX independent. You

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Speaker 1: can tell them to buy the drugs.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Are they doing the old wink wink luch nights.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. Yeah, there's no doubt. I mean there's no doubt

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Speaker 3: in the government's mind. Anyway. Farm Mac's got other ideas.

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Speaker 3: They'll be in big trouble because both Christopher Luxen and

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Speaker 3: David Seymour saying it's a great day for New Zealand

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Speaker 3: that the's not only thirteen the one they'll be getting

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Speaker 3: seven drugs. I think of the thirteen and the remainder

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Speaker 3: are so forget. They've got to wait until October November.

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Speaker 3: And this is going to mean less spending the next

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Speaker 3: year's budget because this money is basically predicated on next

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Speaker 3: year's budget, So.

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Speaker 1: The pilfering money from next year's budget meetings right for stuff.

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Speaker 3: That's the way it's been done. So that thing is

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Speaker 3: great because there will be over twenty six I think

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Speaker 3: it is twenty six cancer treatments and twenty eight other

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Speaker 3: treatments that will be funded by the six hundred odd

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Speaker 3: million dollars. Now, Luxon admits they could have handled it

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Speaker 3: better than announcing those drugs during the election campaign and

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Speaker 3: they're not delivering them in the budget because there was

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Speaker 3: such as you know, an absolute backlash. He attempted to

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Speaker 3: explain how it happened that Farmac was meant to be

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Speaker 3: independent from the government but ended up as the delivery body.

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Speaker 2: Well, it was an attempt to try and get thirteen

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Speaker 2: cancer drugs that weren't available to New ze Islanders, you know,

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Speaker 2: by essentially working outside the farming system. As we came

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Speaker 2: to government, it became pretty obvious we've got a good model,

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Speaker 2: why would we want to create a second model. And

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Speaker 2: it's important that we could actually embed it into the

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Speaker 2: FARMAC model. And that's a lot of what our com

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Speaker 2: has been over recent months. But we've actually got farmak

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Speaker 2: able to purchase fifty four drugs that they previously couldn't do.

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Speaker 2: That are going to be very helpful. This is the

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Speaker 2: exciting part. This is a great day for many New Zealanders.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, well it's a great day for FARMAC, though,

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Speaker 3: is it. If they really do want to preserve their independence,

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Speaker 3: let's been.

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Speaker 1: Compromised, like, let's see the bigger picture right for people

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Speaker 1: who need to think.

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Speaker 3: It's fantastic, but they should have delivered the way it's

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Speaker 3: normally delivered.

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Speaker 1: So it's Parliament sitting this week. Yeah, this week, it's.

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Speaker 3: Going to be a tough week because of course the

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Speaker 3: FARMAC thing, they'll hope will deflect from what's been going on.

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Speaker 3: And yesterday they hope there would be a bit of

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Speaker 3: deflection in the law and order package they announced on

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Speaker 3: a Sunday, And of course they also talked about the

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Speaker 3: military style boot camps for young offenders. Now there'll be

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Speaker 3: they'll be a there'll be one ten person pilot in

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Speaker 3: Palmerston North and that'll run for years. So we're still

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Speaker 3: quite a long way off those boot camps now. Simeon

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Speaker 3: Brown he had a very busy week next week and

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Speaker 3: he'll be no last week sorry, and he'll be no

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Speaker 3: doubt accounting for it this week because he was between

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Speaker 3: North Northland and over the past week first responding to

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Speaker 3: that pylon's collapse, and then our terri's are running aground.

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Speaker 3: So you know, what a terrible time.

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Speaker 1: I'm just loving the story about the power pylon.

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Speaker 4: Well, I guess worse than we thought. It wasn't just

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Speaker 4: two floody leagues, it was three exactly.

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Speaker 3: It's unbelievable that why would you take the bolts out

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Speaker 3: of a pylon that's carrying Goodness only knows how much

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Speaker 3: weight and electricity was a well, who knows. They're going

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Speaker 3: to have an independent inquiry. I'm sorry. Like I said

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Speaker 3: last week, I volunteered to head that inquiry because it

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Speaker 3: was pretty obvious what happened. You only had to look

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Speaker 3: at the on with its legs in the air and

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Speaker 3: clean bolt holes. Those plates would have been destroyed when

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Speaker 3: it fell over if in fact the bolts were still

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Speaker 3: in place. So it was pretty obvious. But what an

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Speaker 3: abomination that is.

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Speaker 4: Really, do you think you're going to make it into

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Speaker 4: the Jinda Ardurn movie? Will you just be cast as

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Speaker 4: sort of generic generic arking dog from this side, You'll

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Speaker 4: just be the like the entire press pack is having

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Speaker 4: a crack at her represents Barry Soper.

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Speaker 1: Do you think I think you'll be the villain?

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Speaker 3: She used to call me a grumpy old man at times.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe it.

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Speaker 1: Very sober, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: Could you do that?

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Speaker 1: Seeing your political correspondent.

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