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Speaker 1: Heather du for see Ellen eighteen past five. Now, Mike

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Speaker 1: bush lead review into the response to the wider Ware

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Speaker 1: flood has found that Hawks Bay Regional Council really needs

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Speaker 1: to Bucket's ideas up. Remember how the locals and Widewall

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Speaker 1: were saying that the flooding was the council's fault because

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Speaker 1: the council hadn't cleared the sandbar. Well, this review says

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Speaker 1: it's actually surprised the bar wasn't cleared regularly. Craig Little

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Speaker 1: is the mirror of white Oi and with us.

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Speaker 2: Now, hey, Craig, hi, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, thank you? Do you feel vindicated?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look, I'm fessed a little bit relieved. A Command's

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Speaker 2: been a big journey for us, and we doubt our

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Speaker 2: sales every day, but we knew that we were right.

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Speaker 1: It hasn't completely blamed the council though for this flooding event,

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Speaker 1: has it.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's three things that we're not happy about and

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Speaker 2: that's the highest well, the high spring tie and the

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Speaker 2: high waves. We can completely categorically say that it's not

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Speaker 2: true that it is just a yearly, annual event, and

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Speaker 2: we have the facts and figures to prove that so

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Speaker 2: that's the only thing that goes against it, but everything

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Speaker 2: else if those three weren't there, it's a combination of

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Speaker 2: four things. Well, actually it's only a combination one thing,

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Speaker 2: and that's the room out the bar.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now it's pretty it is pretty scathing of the

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Speaker 1: fact that these guys at the Hawks Bay Regional Council

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Speaker 1: should be clearing out that bar more regularly and should

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Speaker 1: be listening to what you people are saying. So do

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Speaker 1: you think anything's actually going to change?

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Speaker 2: Look, I've heard. Look, the biggest thing is the id

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Speaker 2: apology I've been asking for for quite some time. Is

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Speaker 2: that going to happen now? And I guess that's number one.

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Speaker 2: They all have going to say there sorry, you know,

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Speaker 2: and actually have a bit of empathy for all the

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Speaker 2: poor people that are still suffering. And so that'll be

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Speaker 2: a big one for me. But some big improvements have

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Speaker 2: to happen. Yep.

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Speaker 1: Do you have confidence?

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Speaker 2: Not at the stage. No one's rungnging me from the

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Speaker 2: Regial Council or anything really except to say that they're

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Speaker 2: going to have a release and wire on the Friday

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Speaker 2: because they've got their own three reports as well, don't forget. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and totally different to the Mike Busch Mike Bush did.

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Speaker 2: I think did a wonderful job. And like say, there's

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Speaker 2: only three things that the three things that he referred

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Speaker 2: to Tonkin and Taylor that happens to be a Regial

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Speaker 2: Council report, and the things we don't agree on. But

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Speaker 2: he had a very short timeframes, so he did do well.

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Speaker 1: Craig, thank you. I really appreciate your time and how

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Speaker 1: generous you being at the Bobent. That's Craig Little mirror

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Speaker 1: of Whidaway.

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