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Speaker 1: The press conference yesterday for Health New Zealand. Boy oh boy,

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Speaker 1: what a doozy. So they've appointed Lester lev as the commissioner.

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Speaker 1: The CEO, Margie Arper was there alongside him. She's been

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Speaker 1: in the job two years. That's how long the organization's

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Speaker 1: been set up for. And they're over spending one hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty million dollars a month. We know that that

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Speaker 1: can be nothing more than mismanagement. If you take Levy's

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Speaker 1: word for it, he says they don't need more money.

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Speaker 1: They basically just don't know how to spend efficiently within

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Speaker 1: the organization as it stands. So I mean that's mismanagement,

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Speaker 1: short and simple, start to finish. And the whole thing

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Speaker 1: for me was a farce. They said, we need to

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Speaker 1: push into the regions. That's where the decision making is made.

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Speaker 1: What isn't it that what we said we didn't need.

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Speaker 1: We needed more centralization, we needed a national service. And

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Speaker 1: now we're going out to the regions again, apparently hiring

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Speaker 1: four regional czars. Why did we spend all this money

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Speaker 1: to set this organization up? It's so frustrating to listen to.

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Speaker 1: They also said we never going to achieve the proper

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Speaker 1: transition from the DHBs to this new organization in two years?

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Speaker 1: Are you serious? Imagine a private business changing its operating

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Speaker 1: model and two years in saying, oh, the change hasn't worked,

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Speaker 1: but it's still early days. It just wouldn't happen. And

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Speaker 1: then there was this Levy who sits on a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of boards and knows what he's talking about, casually

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Speaker 1: said that their spending controls and checks and balances are

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Speaker 1: not up to scratch.

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Speaker 2: Internal and management controls are much weaker than I would

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Speaker 2: have expected. So we have spending problems all over the show.

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Speaker 1: What an absolute cluster. I hate to be negative, I

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Speaker 1: really do. I know it's early in the morning. I

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Speaker 1: hate to be negative, but I just lost all the

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Speaker 1: will to live yesterday. Just a simple we request from me.

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Speaker 1: Let's make sure that when we appoint boards and executives

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Speaker 1: that they actually know what they're doing. They can read

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Speaker 1: a spreadsheet. Good luck, Lester, I think you'll need it.

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