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Speaker 1: So a lot of us might be moving just a

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Speaker 1: little bit faster into our day to day as of midnight.

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Speaker 1: Whole bunch of speed limits that the last government cut

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Speaker 1: one hundred some roads in fact increased by some thirty cage.

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Speaker 1: Transport Minister Chris Bishop well.

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Speaker 2: This morning, good morning.

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Speaker 1: One headline I noticed yesterday because the media don't quite

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Speaker 1: understand how these things work, took the mickey out of

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Speaker 1: you over your excitement over three minutes, not understanding that

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Speaker 1: if hundreds of thousands of cars travel three minutes faster,

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Speaker 1: that's actually quite impactful, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Oh it's huge. I mean, did you just think about

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Speaker 2: the wire Rapper where we were. It's ten thousand cars

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Speaker 2: on that or vehicles on that Stretcher Road State Highway too.

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Speaker 2: You know that's the long Stretcher Road over the hill

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Speaker 2: from Wellington, Featherston Carterton. Great how three minutes. Well, you

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Speaker 2: know that's a difference to the individual driver or the

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Speaker 2: trucke or the trade doing the trip. But you know

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Speaker 2: it's ten thousand cars and vehicle movements on that Stretcher

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Speaker 2: Road and then of course around the country as well,

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Speaker 2: all these things add up, and if we want to

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Speaker 2: grow an economy, and we're talking about productivity and getting

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Speaker 2: this country going again, we've got to do everything that

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Speaker 2: we can. We've got to do every little bit all

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Speaker 2: added up and it will make a real difference.

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Speaker 1: The fear is over deaths.

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Speaker 2: You say, what, Well, the number one cause of death

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Speaker 2: on our roads is drugs and alcohol and that's what

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Speaker 2: we're really focused on. So thirty percent of in the

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Speaker 2: last three years on our roads were caused by people

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Speaker 2: who were driving with drugs in their system, and so

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Speaker 2: that's why we're introducing roadside drug testing. In fact, we

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Speaker 2: had the second reading of that bill just a couple

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Speaker 2: of days ago. The last government had an attempt at it,

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Speaker 2: but they've passed a flawed piece of legislation, so we're

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Speaker 2: fixing it up. But how crazy is it that you

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Speaker 2: can drive around whilst high in New Zealand right now

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Speaker 2: and you never get tested, and you know, you never

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Speaker 2: get tested, and so unsurprisingly a whole bunch of people

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Speaker 2: do it. So we're bringing New Zealand into line with

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Speaker 2: a lot of other jurisdictions with roadside drug testing, and

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Speaker 2: we're also increasing breast testing as well, so the last

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Speaker 2: government basically let things slip with breast testing. Some years

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Speaker 2: they were in charge, the police didn't even use their

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Speaker 2: budget that they were given for breast testing. We've increased

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Speaker 2: the budget, but we've also put in place performance requirements

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Speaker 2: to make the police do them. And I can tell

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Speaker 2: you that they are getting on and doing them. And

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Speaker 2: people we might might have noticed that there's been a

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Speaker 2: been a noticeable uptack and breath test around the place.

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Speaker 1: Good, good, good, where you and I part company. Then

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Speaker 1: I took to the Prime Minister about this on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: What's with this consultation on the roads? Well with speed limits?

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Speaker 1: Why what are you looking to find from consultation other

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Speaker 1: than people support you or don't.

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Speaker 2: Well, the law requires that we consult on some things.

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Speaker 2: We've moved as quickly as humanly possible. Transport rule setting

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Speaker 2: is an extremely complicated and technical process. We've gone as

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Speaker 2: quickly as we can. And I know you're interested in

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Speaker 2: one hundred and ten north of Auckland, Mike. I heard

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Speaker 2: the interview. We're just starting the eyes and crossing the

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Speaker 2: t's watch the space and I'll send you a personal

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Speaker 2: invitation to drive on the one hundred and ten are driving.

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Speaker 1: One hundred and ten. That's probably illegal, say, but that's

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Speaker 1: the point. So does everybody because they thought that was

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Speaker 1: what was going to happen. Meantime, the cops at the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the slope pulling you for one hundred and four.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard the complaints. Look, the roads built to

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Speaker 2: one hundred and ten and we're going to do it.

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Speaker 2: We're going to make it happen. We campaigned on it

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Speaker 2: and we're a government that delivers on our promises. So

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Speaker 2: watch the space.

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Speaker 1: As Leader of the House, you worried about Jones and

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Speaker 1: Peters as to what happened this week.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I think it's just a bit of rough and tumble.

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Speaker 2: But everyone's keen to get back into it after a

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Speaker 2: long break over the summer, and so look, I'm not

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Speaker 2: too worried about it. But as I said to a

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Speaker 2: civil in the Parliament. But it's a bit of a

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Speaker 2: rough and tumble. At the end of the day, it's

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Speaker 2: a robust debating chamber and you know there's been worse

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Speaker 2: things said in parliament before.

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Speaker 1: All right, appreciate your time as always. Chris Bishop, who's

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