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Speaker 1: Barry Sober, senior political correspondent with US lots to talk about, Barry.

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Right, So we got the clash between Luxon and Hipkins.

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Speaker 1: Labor clearly buoyed by these opinion polls.

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Speaker 2: Well, no doubt about it. And of course it's come

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Speaker 2: back today after a recess, so you always expected fully

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Speaker 2: fiery parliament. After that, the Speaker began the session by

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Speaker 2: rebuking the act Leader, David Seymour for that stunt he

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Speaker 2: did yesterday trying to drive a jeep up the or

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Speaker 2: Land rover up the front steps of Parliament. Seymour turns

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Speaker 2: out didn't have any permission from the Speaker. He indicated

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Speaker 2: he might have, but there was no permission, as Jerry

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Speaker 2: Browney said, there was no contact between the Actor office

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Speaker 2: and his office, so he drove it up there. The

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister, though, was he was in the hot seat

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Speaker 2: as well, with almost half the questions today which is unusual,

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Speaker 2: being aimed at him, with Labour's Chris Hipkins being told

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Speaker 2: by lux and he clearly doesn't understand anything about economics.

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Speaker 2: Here's that question.

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Speaker 3: That member is like the arsonists that lit the fire

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Speaker 3: and now criticizes the fire brigade for putting it out right.

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Speaker 3: It's all a bit a bit convenient, just to forget

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Speaker 3: recent history.

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Speaker 4: How will his government find the skilled workers needed for

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Speaker 4: major infrastructure projects when they finally work out what they

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Speaker 4: actually want to build, given that many of those thirteen

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Speaker 4: thousand skilled workers who lost their jobs have already left

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Speaker 4: the country.

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Speaker 3: Well, they left the country to go to sectors that

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Speaker 3: that member doesn't support. Think about mining in Australia, for example.

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Speaker 3: Then we're going to build infrastructure, not just talk about

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Speaker 3: it like Auckland light rail and harbor crossings and a

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Speaker 3: bunch of other kombaiara mush from the muppets.

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Speaker 4: On the other side, what's Nikola willis more likely to

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Speaker 4: replace this year the Inter Island fairies or him as

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Speaker 4: Prime Minister.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm incredibly proud of a great minister of finance.

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Speaker 2: Let's hope he continues to be proud of a great

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Speaker 2: minister of finance. I think he certainly will this side

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Speaker 2: of the next selection.

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Speaker 1: All right, we've got to move on Seymour in the

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Speaker 1: firing line over the polkinghorn. Essay, yes he was.

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Speaker 2: There was that rebuke over the landrover stunt. Then it

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Speaker 2: was on to the Philip Pokinghorn Polkinghorn thing. The question

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Speaker 2: really that many of us wanted answered, and we talked

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Speaker 2: about it yesterday, was whether Polkinghorn was a donor to

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Speaker 2: Seymoa on the Act Party. Well, the party leader wrote

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Speaker 2: the letter, but it was left unanswered that question or

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Speaker 2: was it eblism?

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Speaker 4: Has he asked David Seymour if he has ever received

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Speaker 4: political donations from Philip Polkinghorn? If not, why not?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 3: And I have nothing else to sell it.

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Speaker 4: Given David Seymour has refused to answer publicly whether he

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Speaker 4: has received donations from Philip Polkinghorn. And the Prime Minister

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Speaker 4: is the only person who can judge whether there is

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Speaker 4: a conflict of interest. Why hasn't he asked him?

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Speaker 3: Because the minister was not a minister at the time

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Speaker 3: in which he sent the letter.

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Speaker 5: Mister Speaker, it would be the easiest thing in the

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Speaker 5: world for me to just stand up up and say

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Speaker 5: that there's been no such donation to me. But I'm

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Speaker 5: not going to do that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well why not?

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Speaker 2: We don't know, but you know, and I know you

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Speaker 2: want to hear from Chloe. Well, the school lunch debated

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Speaker 2: did get the airing in Parliament today, the Green's leader,

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Speaker 2: Chloe Swarbrick. She turned up with lunch packs for each

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Speaker 2: of the three coalition leaders, inviting them to taste what's

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Speaker 2: being served up to our kids. Now we know they've

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Speaker 2: had teething problems with Swarbrick. I think scored something of

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Speaker 2: an own goal when the lunch's author, David Seymour, rose

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Speaker 2: to ask a question when she was grilling the Prime

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Speaker 2: Minister about the lunches she brought along for them to taste.

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Speaker 3: Is there one standard and acceptable.

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Speaker 4: Food for parliamentarians and another for our children.

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Speaker 3: I'm more worried about which children are missing out on

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Speaker 3: those lunches that you have nicked them from.

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Speaker 5: It's just for you. What's the Prime Minister aware that

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Speaker 5: yesterday the school lunch program achieved one hundred percent on

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Speaker 5: time delivery in every region, with two exceptions, where in

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Speaker 5: one case ninety five percent on time delivery was achieved

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Speaker 5: and in the other case ninety two percent on time

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Speaker 5: delivery was achieved.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't but that sounds fantastic.

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Speaker 2: That wasn't the answer. I think that Chloe's for Albick wanted.

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Speaker 1: To hear, No, it wasn't. I want to know whether

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Speaker 1: Chloe Swarbrook tasted the meals or.

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Speaker 2: Not while they were sitting there tantalizingly on her desk

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Speaker 2: in front of it. I'm not sure. I would suggest

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Speaker 2: that if the Prime Minister was feeling a bit hungry,

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Speaker 2: should have nipped over and stuck one on the microwave.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, why not. Look, they looked fine to me, very

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Speaker 1: neat of you. Thank you very much for that. Barry Soper,

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Speaker 1: our senior political correspondent here at News Talks.

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