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Speaker 1: On the Christ Church Cathedral rebuild. I actually think Nichola

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Speaker 1: Willis has made the right call not to give any

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Speaker 1: more taxpayer money to it. I mean, it's a tough call, right,

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Speaker 1: It's going to have consequences. As they're saying, it looks

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Speaker 1: like the cathedral might be mothbolled because they just cannot

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Speaker 1: figure out at the stage how else they're going to

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Speaker 1: raise the money. But frankly, I don't need you to

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Speaker 1: you don't need me to tell you this. The country

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Speaker 1: can't afford to give them another sixty million dollars, can it.

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Speaker 1: We're living on our credit card. We've already stumped up

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Speaker 1: about twenty five million bucks to help them out. And

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Speaker 1: let's remember this is a privately owned church. It's owned

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Speaker 1: by the Anglicans. It's not like we are helping to

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Speaker 1: build something that belongs to us. It belongs to the Anglicans.

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Speaker 1: And they are sitting on about two point nine billion

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Speaker 1: dollars worth of assets at last count, just in this

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Speaker 1: country alone. Liquid ad an asset if you want to

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Speaker 1: pay for it now. I don't want to appear to

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Speaker 1: be callous about this, because I realize that this is

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Speaker 1: a really important place for Christ Church, and it will

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Speaker 1: be disappointing to a lot of Cantabrians. But christ Church

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Speaker 1: has had a lot of taxpayer assistance since the quake,

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Speaker 1: you know, quite rightly, quite rightly, but it's been a lot,

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Speaker 1: and there has got to be a limit to it,

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Speaker 1: and I want to compare it to what's happened to Wellington.

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Speaker 1: For example, Wellington actually suffered a lot more than people

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Speaker 1: realized from the twenty sixteen Cai Coder earthquake. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think we've come to realize that the most likely

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Speaker 1: explanation for all of the pipes bursting in Wellington currently

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Speaker 1: is because of the quake that happened in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: and there has been, as far as I can tell,

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Speaker 1: no taxpayer assistance for Wellington in dealing with what has

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Speaker 1: happened as a result of that quake. Now I realize

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Speaker 1: it's not a straight comparison. I mean, the christ Church

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Speaker 1: quake of twenty eleven was miles miles bigger and much

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Speaker 1: more devastating than the twenty sixteen Cai Coder quake, and

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Speaker 1: so of course Wellington would not be assisted to the

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Speaker 1: level that christ Church has been. But the point I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to make is that, apart from some funding for

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Speaker 1: privately held residences, Wellington has not been helped. Christ Church

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Speaker 1: has been helped a lot, and maybe it's time for

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Speaker 1: the Anglicans to help now because it is their building

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