1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,920 Speaker 1: I have got some good news for you if you're 2 00:00:01,920 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: a motorist. One of your more annoying annual tasks, and 3 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: let's be honest, expensive annual tasks may now only happen 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 1: every two years. The government is opening consultation on whether 5 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: to extend the warrant of fitness for light vehicles to 6 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:16,239 Speaker 1: two years instead of the one that we do at 7 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: the moment. New vehicles may not even need a waft 8 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,239 Speaker 1: until they're four years old. Chris Bishop is the Transport 9 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 1: Minister behind this and is with us High Bish Gooday. 10 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 1: Is this safe? 11 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 2: Yes? It is. We make in New Zealand we make 12 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 2: people get their vehicles checked more than almost any other 13 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,400 Speaker 2: country in the western world. So I'm just looking at 14 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 2: a table in front of me. Mostly it's two years. 15 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 2: So you look at Japan, we make people do it 16 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 2: every two years, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden is the same, 17 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 2: Ireland as the same some places you don't even have 18 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 2: to have a regular inspection at all. The reality is 19 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,400 Speaker 2: cars are safer than they've ever been, you know, as 20 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,959 Speaker 2: technology has advanced, and so this is about making sure 21 00:00:58,000 --> 00:00:59,560 Speaker 2: you can reduce the cost of living for people. But 22 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 2: also people say from. 23 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:02,160 Speaker 1: The right their fleet's as old as ours. 24 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 2: So our vehicle fleet is older than other places, and 25 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 2: that's why we're consulting on getting the balance right. So 26 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:14,040 Speaker 2: what we're proposing is that for new vehicles, you would 27 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 2: your first waft would be valid for four years, and 28 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 2: then for vehicles that are between four and ten years old, 29 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 2: you'd get a waft every two years. And then if 30 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 2: you've got a vehicle over ten years old, you'd still 31 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 2: need a waft every year. So I think I think 32 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 2: that strikes about the right balance. 33 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 1: What was it before? It wasn't that long ago that 34 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: it was every six months, wasn't it? 35 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:32,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was six months. I'd have to go back 36 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 2: and check exactly when that changed. From memory, it was 37 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 2: back maybe about ten years ago, I think from memory. 38 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 1: Now it's just recently from that, wasn't it? 39 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 2: Well, you could be right hither certainly I remember doing it. 40 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 1: Put it that way, So yes, jeez, I mean, if 41 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: we go if we go to four years, it really 42 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 1: does make this every six months look like wildly excessive, 43 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: doesn't it? 44 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 2: Well? Be valid be four years for your first waft 45 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 2: and then two years after that, but I mean it's 46 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:59,800 Speaker 2: super annoying, right, you're going to get fifty to seventy 47 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 2: five dollars, you've got to find the time. And I'd 48 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:03,600 Speaker 2: always sense to come around at the wrong time. My 49 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 2: wife's always you know, sort of January two, nothing's open. 50 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:08,600 Speaker 2: You've got to go out and get your wife, you know, 51 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 2: and then it's annoying. 52 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,079 Speaker 1: I mean, didn't you that's your life decision that made 53 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 1: it January two? 54 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. But once you're in the once you're 55 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,399 Speaker 2: on the cycle, you know, like that's when it is right. 56 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 2: Like it's because every twelve months, like by definition, so 57 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 2: every January three order it is. So you know, I 58 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 2: think this is about getting the balance right. We have 59 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 2: one of the most frequent inspection systems in the OECD, 60 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 2: and you know, the vehicle technologies advanced and make it if. 61 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: You decide to go for it. How quickly are we 62 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: doing this? 63 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 2: We so the submissions are open now and they'll close 64 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 2: on Wednesday, since seventeen December, and then we'd hope to 65 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:47,120 Speaker 2: make decisions early in twenty twenty six London and soon 66 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 2: after that, so it could be early to midnext year. 67 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: It's a good life change ahead of the election. Listen, 68 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 1: have you seen this stuff about the Wellington City councilor 69 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:57,520 Speaker 1: complaining because n z TA isn't telling Wellington City Council 70 00:02:57,560 --> 00:02:59,279 Speaker 1: what they're doing with the Mount VCT tunnel. 71 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 2: Oh oh god, crimea river. I mean, seriously, it's a 72 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 2: state highway, like State Highway one goes through the middle 73 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 2: of Wellington Mount Victoria and the terrorists are part of 74 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 2: State Highway one, forty thousand vehicle movements each and every 75 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 2: day through the eastern suburbs, through the airport and all 76 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 2: the rest of it. We're consulting with the council obviously, 77 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,760 Speaker 2: but it's a state highway, so you know, just willing 78 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 2: to see the council needs to get over themselves. 79 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:23,120 Speaker 1: Besh, Can I just ask you something, just as a 80 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 1: senior minister did yesterday after the capital gains tax thing 81 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: came out, did twenty twenty six feel just so much 82 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: more winnable to you guys? 83 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 2: I've got to say it was quite good to you know, 84 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 2: have a bit of a fight frankly, you know, I 85 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 2: mean labor has been running this line for two years 86 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 2: that you know, if only we could just kind of 87 00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 2: go back to the future and you know, just everything 88 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 2: would be better if they were back in charge without 89 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 2: any policy and you know that's an easy line to run. 90 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 2: You know, I've been there, done that. You criticize it. 91 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,160 Speaker 2: Criticism is easy, right, but actually governing is about policies 92 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 2: and having a substantive thing to do and say the 93 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 2: reality is they haven't had anything because they've got no 94 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,000 Speaker 2: brand new ie ideas. And then here we go and 95 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 2: you know, we're about a year out from the election 96 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:05,200 Speaker 2: and it turns out they have some ideas and it's 97 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 2: just more of the same from what we had before. 98 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 2: More tax, more spend, more debt, dumb ideas that were 99 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 2: rejected in the past and got us into this mess 100 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:13,600 Speaker 2: in the first place. And it has been quite good 101 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 2: to throw a few punches. 102 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 1: Mind the leaks, but thanks very much, appreciate it. Chris Bishop, 103 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: Transport Minister. For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive, listen 104 00:04:22,440 --> 00:04:25,479 Speaker 1: live to news Talks. It'd be from four pm weekdays, 105 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,799 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.