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Speaker 1: So the government is announcing this major shakeup of the

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Speaker 1: Resource Management Actor at one o'clock today. Will bring you

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Speaker 1: everything as it happens. Regional councils have already been slashed,

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Speaker 1: but now the government's eyeing up a forty to fifty

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Speaker 1: percent cut in the number of consents required. Zoning is

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Speaker 1: getting a clean up too, trimming down from the one

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Speaker 1: and seventy five zones we've got at the moment. And

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Speaker 1: apparently there's some new agency that will over environmental concerns.

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Speaker 1: So I'm joined now by Federated Farmer's ROMA Reform spokesperson

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Speaker 1: Mark Hooper, who joins with kill Mark, Good morning, this

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Speaker 1: is what you've been wanting for years.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's right. We have been campaigning around this

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Speaker 2: for a long time.

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Speaker 1: And with your campaigning, have you been coming up with

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Speaker 1: the ideas and you've been helping the government, you know,

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Speaker 1: in their time in opposition. Because I heard the EMA

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Speaker 1: guy yesterday he's been working on reform and reform ideas

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Speaker 1: and presenting it to politicians for eight years. Have you, guys,

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Speaker 1: fed Farmer has been doing the same.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think ours goes back for a good

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Speaker 2: twenty odd years in some form or another. But certainly,

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Speaker 2: you know, since the term of the previous government, you know,

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Speaker 2: we've been pretty pretty proactive around this and particularly focusing

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Speaker 2: I guess, a really really quite simple message that the

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Speaker 2: current system is broken, that it's too expensive, it's too

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Speaker 2: time consuming, and it's too unpredictable. So really we're looking

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Speaker 2: for a good outcome, which is fast, the cheaper better.

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Speaker 1: I said a bit earlier in the program, though, the

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Speaker 1: reason the garram A balloon to become this cancerous growth

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Speaker 1: around our economy is because too many people actually did

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Speaker 1: some stuff and actually ruined the environment. Will there be

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Speaker 1: environmental safeguards you reckon from what you know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely there will be. I mean, one of the

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Speaker 2: reasons you mentioned there in the intro cutting consents by

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Speaker 2: you know, up to fifty percent. So that's around the

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Speaker 2: basis of having a good set of national standards for

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Speaker 2: common activities things like farming, vegetable growing, various thing that

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Speaker 2: we need just to kind of run. If you have

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Speaker 2: good national standards around there, you've still got environmental conditions

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Speaker 2: in place, and as long as those conditions have been met,

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Speaker 2: then that becomes a permitted activity and cuts down the

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Speaker 2: number of consents.

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Speaker 1: So mistery Craig. This year Christopher Luckx at the Prime Minister,

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Speaker 1: reckoned that this would cut the costs of consents required

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Speaker 1: by farmers by forty six percent. Now what is that

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Speaker 1: going to do to the farmer's bottom line and what

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Speaker 1: is that going to do in terms of what they

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Speaker 1: can do going forward to make their operations better.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think this is the big thing, is

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Speaker 2: that really we've got to get back to a position

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Speaker 2: where we can have a growth economy and we've got

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Speaker 2: to look at what are the things that are holding

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Speaker 2: us back, and it's this ability to get on and

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Speaker 2: do things. It's all the additional cost associated with what

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Speaker 2: would otherwise be a standard farming activity. So it's having

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Speaker 2: to get all of the expert planners, the consultants, the

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Speaker 2: extra e wee constation at a consent level, all this

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Speaker 2: sort of thing. It all takes time, slow things down,

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Speaker 2: adds a huge amount of bureaucratic costs. So it's going

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Speaker 2: to help enormously.

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Speaker 1: Well, Mark, we wait for one o'clock and I thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for your time today. For more from

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