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Speaker 1: As we know, the greyhound racing industry will we aband

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Speaker 1: in New Zealand from July next year. And now we've

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Speaker 1: found out that the government is looking at making greyhound

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Speaker 1: Racing New Zealand pay for the admin costs of doing that.

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Speaker 1: Documents released under the Official Information Act show that there

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Speaker 1: are plans to take fifteen million dollars from Greyhound Racing

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Speaker 1: New Zealand savings to pay for it. Edward Rental is

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Speaker 1: the CEO of Greyhound Racing New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: Hey Edward, Yeah, exactly what would they mean?

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Speaker 1: What would they spend the money on.

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Speaker 2: I think it would be largely directed towards rehoming activities,

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Speaker 2: which the government has brought this sign itself by making

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Speaker 2: a decision to close the industry in twenty months, assuming

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Speaker 2: that they would have the greyhound populationary home by that point,

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Speaker 2: but now they will not. So this is money we

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Speaker 2: had set aside for infrastructure development astraight tracks, but it's

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Speaker 2: also money that could go to support her participants who

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Speaker 2: are losing their livelihoods in the regions and have had

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Speaker 2: no consideration provided in terms of what financial supporter compensation

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Speaker 2: would be provided to.

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Speaker 1: So when you say rehoming, what are we talking who

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Speaker 1: are we paying?

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Speaker 2: Here?

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Speaker 1: Are we paying people to take the dogs?

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Speaker 2: Now? This will be the process where the dogs. You know,

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Speaker 2: we believe it will probably take two years after thirty

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Speaker 2: one July to rehome the dog population. So this is

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Speaker 2: dogs being held in Kennell's pending and option. We believe

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Speaker 2: that we are around fifteen hundred dogs at thirty one

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Speaker 2: July that will need rehoming.

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Speaker 1: So would it be sort of providing temporary accommodation until

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Speaker 1: homes are found.

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Speaker 2: Until yeah, and training the dogs to be suitable as pets,

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Speaker 2: so we re home seven hundred a year is what

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Speaker 2: we will achieve this year. So you're looking at a

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Speaker 2: two year prosis. So the government, I think when they

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Speaker 2: made the decision, all the papers were hopeful that they

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Speaker 2: would have the population rehome by thirty one July. But

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Speaker 2: I think now common sense has prevailed and they realize

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Speaker 2: that won't be possible. The logical thing to do would

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Speaker 2: be new racing for a longer period to allow that

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Speaker 2: funding to continue to come in so our people could

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Speaker 2: generate in and come and transition in an orderly fashion

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Speaker 2: much long that well, I think we believe one. I

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Speaker 2: don't believe there are grounds to Danius. I think that point.

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Speaker 2: Based on welfare and the reasons given and looking at

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Speaker 2: the A papers, we don't believe there are grounds. But

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Speaker 2: if it was, you would need a period. I think

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Speaker 2: that another year or two. But of course that's beyond

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Speaker 2: the next election, isn't it.

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Speaker 1: Hey Listen, I see that SAFE has put out a

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Speaker 1: release talking about the fact that three dogs died last week.

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Speaker 2: What happened, Yeah, we had two we're racing incidents where

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Speaker 2: they are the most humane thing to do was euthanize them.

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Speaker 2: I think that's our third euthanasia and third sudden death

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Speaker 2: since the first of January. So clearly, you know, we've

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Speaker 2: had I think eight euthanasians and five to sudden best

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Speaker 2: this racing season out of thirty thousand starters. So that's

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Speaker 2: thirteen out of thirty thousand, so it's a rate of

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Speaker 2: point four per thousand, which is from other race administrations.

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Speaker 2: You know, that's a very good rate. Now, any dees unfortunate,

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Speaker 2: but I think it just needs to be perspective around

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Speaker 2: it that sadly incidents do happen, and it's the most

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Speaker 2: humane thing to do. You know, the dogs are euthanized brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Hey listen Edward, thank you very much for talking us

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Speaker 1: through to appreciate your time. That's Edward Reynolds, Greyhound Racing,

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