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Speaker 1: Good news for the Coramandel because it's just been announced

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Speaker 1: walking access to Cathedral Cove is going to be back

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Speaker 1: in time for summer. The government has pledged five million

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Speaker 1: dollars for a fix to the walkway, which has been

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Speaker 1: closed since cyclone. Gabriel Tama Portucke is the Conservation Minister.

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Speaker 2: Hay Tummer Jadada.

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Speaker 1: I'm stoked about this. I am stoked about this, But

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Speaker 1: explain to me how we have gone from it may

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Speaker 1: never open ever again in January to six months later

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Speaker 1: in July. Yep, we can open it for five million bucks.

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Speaker 1: How did that happen?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's absolutely pleasure to be part of promise that

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Speaker 2: Christoph Luxin's capnet and he wants to get things done.

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Speaker 2: We're very targeted and solutions focused around looking after our

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Speaker 2: land and sea for future generations. So the aising with

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Speaker 2: Doc and the community were deliberated, made a decision We've

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Speaker 2: got to fix it, get on with it.

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Speaker 1: So Doc was saying, I think in February that the

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Speaker 1: hillside was still unsafe and things may still tumble down

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Speaker 1: like gigantic rocks may tumble down and squash people. Is

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Speaker 1: that not going to happen?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that we'll live on the top of

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Speaker 2: tech toilement plates that come together. We do have some challenges,

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Speaker 2: but they've done some due diligence. They've worked with experts.

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Speaker 2: They've figured out a way how we can minimize those

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Speaker 2: risks and create a safe environment for people to walk

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Speaker 2: down to the beach and enjoy the great place of

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Speaker 2: Cathedral Coat.

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Speaker 1: Were they catastrophizing the situation at DOC because they didn't

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Speaker 1: want to have to pay for this? Is that what

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Speaker 1: was really going on?

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Speaker 2: No, I think there's an absolute appetite to have both

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Speaker 2: a short and a long term fix, not only just

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Speaker 2: for the walking track, but the car parking and a

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Speaker 2: whole range of other things. And I've worked deliberately to

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Speaker 2: get to a solution and I've encouraged them along.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and this money. Is this coming out of Dock's

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Speaker 1: budget or is it out of special new money?

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Speaker 2: No, this money has emerged from the International Visitor Levy

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Speaker 2: DOC and the Tourism Crew. We get fifty percent each

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Speaker 2: of the International visit a levy paid by international visitors,

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Speaker 2: and every year we've been fortunate enough to get some

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Speaker 2: funds which we can apply to important projects like Cathedral

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Speaker 2: Code Cool and.

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Speaker 1: How long is five million bucks going to keep this

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Speaker 1: walkway open for well.

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Speaker 2: I think there's both a short term and long term

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Speaker 2: solution that's underway. The first part is to get the

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Speaker 2: short term fix for Christmas this year so we can

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Speaker 2: be down there in December, and the long term flex

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Speaker 2: might take a couple of years to work through and

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Speaker 2: figure out and make it sustainable.

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Speaker 1: Tama, thank you so much for taking the time to

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Speaker 1: talk to us. I really appreciate it, and best of

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Speaker 1: luck getting that walkway up and people are going to

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Speaker 1: be stoked. That's Tuma Pawtucker, the Conservation Minister.

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