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Speaker 1: For as long as I've been in talk radio, and

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Speaker 1: I've been talking to people about RMA reform. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I first turned up and taught radio back in nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety six. It's a long time. The Resource Management Act,

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Speaker 1: it's been around a long time too, introduced in nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety one, and it's fair to say it's ballooned into

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Speaker 1: being an albatross around our necks. To comply, you need

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Speaker 1: to pay a fortune to check your compliance. Authorities have

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Speaker 1: to spend weeks reviewing your plans. That costs a fortune.

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Speaker 1: So today we're going to learn what comes next. Now.

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Speaker 1: The reason the RMA grew like a cancer of growth

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Speaker 1: around our progress is quite simple. Too many people took

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Speaker 1: too many liberties and caused too much damage and worrying

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Speaker 1: about their margins, they took shortcuts and then projects failed,

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Speaker 1: And like so many laws, we had to take into

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Speaker 1: account those lowest common denominators, the developers who did it cheap,

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Speaker 1: the developers who did it bad and then liquidated the

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Speaker 1: company to leave others to clean up the mess, or

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Speaker 1: the people who built stuff and it fell down, or

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Speaker 1: the people who built stuff and it polluted the environment.

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Speaker 1: The experience is why many will not welcome today's simplification

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Speaker 1: of the rule, but the overcompensation for those bad actors

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Speaker 1: has cost us all too much. So today I think

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Speaker 1: we're all looking for efficiencies. We are still looking for

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Speaker 1: the safeguards to protect us from the cowboys who are

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Speaker 1: far too many in our countries these days. And apparently

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Speaker 1: there's going to be some national agency that's going to

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Speaker 1: overlook particularly the environmental concern. So I wish Chris Bishop

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Speaker 1: all the best of luck today. The work needs to

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Speaker 1: be done, but again I beg the developers not to

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Speaker 1: take the piss. Your selfish concern for your bottom line

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Speaker 1: has resulted in this mess, so just stop it. Here's

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Speaker 1: a thing for anybody building anything, whether you're getting a

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Speaker 1: building consent or a resource consent or anything. Build it once,

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Speaker 1: build it right, make it last, and care about your legacy.

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