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Speaker 1: I've got some issues around this new Family boost scheme.

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Speaker 1: This is where you get money for childcare. But if

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Speaker 1: you've got a register with your ECE receipts. So far,

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Speaker 1: three weeks after the registration's opened, about forty percent have so.

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Speaker 1: Early Childhood counsel by Simon Labor is with us on this.

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Speaker 1: Simon morning to you, morning mate. I know the Labour

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Speaker 1: Party you're trying to make a thing of this, but

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Speaker 1: I mean, yea, it's tens of thousands of people are

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Speaker 1: registered so far, it's only three weeks. I'm not overly

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Speaker 1: exercise to you.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a really impressive start. That's to compare

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Speaker 2: that to how long it would take us to deliver

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Speaker 2: the same kind of changes through ECE funding, which would

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Speaker 2: be three or four years. I think it's a really

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Speaker 2: good beginner exactly.

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Speaker 1: I also argue there's something to be said about self responsibility.

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Speaker 1: If you want the money, the money is there, and

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Speaker 1: if you've got to spend a couple of minutes on

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Speaker 1: a computer filing a few forms, that's not the end

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Speaker 1: of the world. Because we do it with a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff in life, don't we.

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Speaker 2: That's right. It's annoying having that admin burden, But if

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Speaker 2: you actually have a look on the website, they have

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Speaker 2: made it as easy as they possibly can. And if

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Speaker 2: you need help now with this cost living crisis, here

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Speaker 2: you go. You can go and get it if you

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Speaker 2: really feel motivated. But if you can't be bothered, that's

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Speaker 2: over to you.

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Speaker 1: Exactly have you seen or dealt with people who have

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Speaker 1: done it? It's working if you can make it work,

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Speaker 1: it's not actually a big deal if you don't want

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Speaker 1: to make it a big deal.

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Speaker 2: Definitely. There's no issues with the system they've designed so far,

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Speaker 2: but everyone's just getting their heads around it. In the

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Speaker 2: ecy sector, it takes us about a year to come,

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Speaker 2: you know, to get our heads around new systems and things.

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Speaker 2: And parents are going to be no different. It will

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Speaker 2: take them a while to get the hang of it.

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Speaker 2: Once they've done that, it's just rinse and repeat.

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Speaker 1: Good on you.

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Speaker 2: So i'd encourage people to get it to.

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Speaker 1: Go, all right, okay, especially for free money, Simon, And

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Speaker 1: nothing's free obviously, but you know what I mean. Simon Labor,

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Speaker 1: who's the Early Childhood Council CEO. Speaking of which, morning Mike,

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Speaker 1: what a Labor and the useless MP Ingrid o' leary

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Speaker 1: up to attacking Gumboot Friday and it's iconic leader, Mike King.

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Speaker 1: So I can see where you're coming from in the

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Speaker 1: text calling an iconic o Leary maintains that it isn't

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Speaker 1: a personal attack, but we can read between the lines.

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Speaker 1: So Leary's got enough on a plate helping out her

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Speaker 1: constituents and flood damage Dunedin, and she can never resist

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to attack the government. Labour's got to watch

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Speaker 1: this at the moment. I mean that whole story of

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Speaker 1: business of the ec ething came out of labor, labor

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Speaker 1: going and it's king complicated and it ain't it. And

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Speaker 1: if there's too much of that, you turn people off

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Speaker 1: in a major way.

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