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Speaker 1: Ending the week with a reality check A. I was

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Speaker 1: a bit underwhelmed by the government's responses. I've told you

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Speaker 1: this week to the last couple of weeks worth of

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Speaker 1: weather events, two million bucks, not a lot of money,

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Speaker 1: which I suppose in a way is good because it

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Speaker 1: indicates the damage isn't that bad. Except the damage is

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Speaker 1: that bad. It's just the big stuff, the roads and

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Speaker 1: the bridges and the infrastructures being paid for out of

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Speaker 1: these contingency budgets and various government departments. Fine, But as

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Speaker 1: I asked and got no real answer to, is that

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Speaker 1: the plan is it build it, watch it get destroyed,

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Speaker 1: patch it up, watch it get destroyed, patch it up.

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Speaker 1: It's not my favorite plan. What's the big picture, I

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Speaker 1: asked Pink Mitchell and luxen Ah, there is one, they

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Speaker 1: reassure us. Not sure of a time frame, which is

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Speaker 1: political for it's on the never never yet. In the

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Speaker 1: post from AA Insurance to the Bullet District mayor is

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Speaker 1: the news they will be suspending cover for the region.

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Speaker 1: No new business in the post code of seven eight

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Speaker 1: twenty five Westport counters Beach in Cape Falwyn. Now this

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Speaker 1: is where this goes. Just how many letters from how

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Speaker 1: many insurance companies do you want before the big call

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Speaker 1: needs to be made? But Atah should have been the

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Speaker 1: red flag started tony years ago, already in Wellington for

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Speaker 1: other reasons. You've got insurance issues the Upper Hunter, New

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Speaker 1: South Wales has been dealing with it for years. Even

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Speaker 1: if you can get covered these days, it's at least

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand bucks a year. There are rightly or wrongly,

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Speaker 1: sadly or not chunks of the country that look problematic.

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Speaker 1: Ignoring them or relying on an ever increasing contingency budget,

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Speaker 1: it's not making them any less. So the government is

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Speaker 1: always the last port of call in a crisis. The

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Speaker 1: taxpayer will always be the one asked to provide the

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Speaker 1: accommodation and the bridge and the food. When the climate

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Speaker 1: tips life upside out. Fit Farmers said it's not acceptable

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Speaker 1: to have state highway to the wireworker cut off. Correct

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Speaker 1: it isn't. But the government's answer is more band aids

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Speaker 1: AA Insurance's answer is no more cover. One of them

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Speaker 1: is missing the point. One of them is showing you

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Speaker 1: how the sun folds. For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast,

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