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Speaker 1: Heather do for sel.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't look like Dunedin is going to take lying

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Speaker 2: down that decision to downscale the new hospital. Yesterday the

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Speaker 2: government announced the hospital's budget has blown out from one

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Speaker 2: point nine to three billion and it's unaffordable. There is

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Speaker 2: a protest planned tomorrow and the mayor Jewels radit is

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Speaker 2: with us.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Jules, Hey, how are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm very well, thank you. How big is that protest

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Speaker 2: going to be?

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Speaker 1: Well, we don't know yet. We don't have any indication

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Speaker 1: of numbers, but I expect to be thousands of people.

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Speaker 2: What do you think the government should do if they

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Speaker 2: don't go? If they I mean they've proposed that they

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Speaker 2: may just you know, downscale the new one or they

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Speaker 2: may add to the existing one. You don't like either

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Speaker 2: of those options.

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Speaker 1: Well, in the first instance, I think they should undergo

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Speaker 1: a process or go through a process of I suppose

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Speaker 1: contract management. You know they've taken the initial contract. There

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Speaker 1: was a multinational with lots of layers of profitability in

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Speaker 1: at high level, so let's have a look. I mean,

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Speaker 1: our patients is going really well. It's under budget and

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Speaker 1: on time, so it's going really well. And so by

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Speaker 1: dealing with different contractors. I think we can get the

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Speaker 1: price back down to the one point eight eight billion

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Speaker 1: and get the hospital built with all its clinical services,

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Speaker 1: services and facilities.

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Speaker 2: I think the contractor is the problem here, juels I do.

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Speaker 1: Why they're contract Well, they've been very good at escalating

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Speaker 1: the price of various contracts that have done for New

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Speaker 1: Zealand government, like a transmission gully, the new christ Church Hospital.

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Speaker 2: A bit of a pattern of behavior here from these guys.

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Speaker 2: You think, yes, interesting, okay, do you reckon the government's

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Speaker 2: movable on this?

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Speaker 1: Well? Absolutely, if they engage in that contract negotiations and

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Speaker 1: you know they are looking and talking about that, and

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Speaker 1: if they can get pricing than the realms of reasonable,

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Speaker 1: then I think they can do it. Because we've got

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Speaker 1: we've got all the designs done. I mean the piles.

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Speaker 1: From from my office window, I can see all the

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Speaker 1: piles are done. They're in the ground and finished. That

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Speaker 1: was finished this week, would you believe. And the plans

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Speaker 1: are all done. So there's two and a half thousand

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Speaker 1: pages of plans that were received on site or to

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Speaker 1: the side office a month or two ago. So there's

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Speaker 1: been a heap of a lot of money spent on

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Speaker 1: this design, and it's just a matter of getting on

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Speaker 1: and building it. And we can see what good quality

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Speaker 1: contractors can do because we can see it right next

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Speaker 1: door and the outpatients building.

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Speaker 2: Good luck with it, Im, and good luck with the

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Speaker 2: protest tomorrow. Appreciate you time. It's Jules Radditch Deneden's me.

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Speaker 2: He may have a point there, a contractors three times

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Speaker 2: budget blow out, blow out the budget, you got to

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Speaker 2: start getting a little bit suspicious.

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