1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,520 Speaker 1: Listen, I tell you what I don't like about the 2 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:05,000 Speaker 1: money that we're spending on Sunny cul Sial and the 3 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: Retail Crime Advisory Group. It's not a good deal. That's 4 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:10,639 Speaker 1: what I don't like. I don't have a problem with 5 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 1: Sunny Caucial. In fact, I like most of the ideas 6 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:15,239 Speaker 1: that he pitches quite a lot, actually, but he was 7 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,760 Speaker 1: pitching these ideas to the government for free. If someone 8 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,919 Speaker 1: offers you something for free and you then decide to 9 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: pay for it, that's a bad deal, isn't it. And 10 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,480 Speaker 1: and we are paying very very good coin for these 11 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: ideas that were free five minutes ago. Sonny Caucial can 12 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,520 Speaker 1: claim apparently for his work nine hundred and twenty dollars 13 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:37,919 Speaker 1: a day now between March first and June tenth, which 14 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: is one hundred and two days. One news reckons he 15 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 1: earned himself more than ninety five thousand dollars. Now, my 16 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,760 Speaker 1: suns tell me that ninety five thousand dollars divided by 17 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:49,880 Speaker 1: nine hundred and twenty means that he has been working 18 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:53,960 Speaker 1: and claiming that money seven days a week, every single week, 19 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 1: for one hundred and two days straight. And then there 20 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: are some other money there that I cannot explain that's 21 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: on top of that. Now, nearly a hundred thousand dollars 22 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: for three three months work is not bad, is it? 23 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:05,920 Speaker 1: And then never mind that, but look at the personnel 24 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: cost of three hundred and thirty thousand dollars, which Sonney 25 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,520 Speaker 1: told us yesterday was for lawyers and policy work work. 26 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 1: I would say that mostly can be done in house 27 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: by government departments and ministerial officers, because they do this 28 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: kind of thing all the time, and in fact, they 29 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: have probably already done work on some of these ideas 30 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: that have been pitched. Given that the ideas have been 31 00:01:22,959 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: pitched in the past beforehand, it's not all that novel 32 00:01:25,319 --> 00:01:27,920 Speaker 1: right now. Frankly, at the cost of three hundred and 33 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,680 Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars for three months work of policy and 34 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: legal work, I think that we can see that someone 35 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: is taking the mickey here, aren't they. Now? This fundamental 36 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: question behind all of this SILVISI is if you're offered 37 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 1: something for free, why would you pay for it? And 38 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:45,679 Speaker 1: the simple answer is because that is how the government 39 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: gravy train works. Good for Sonny Caucial If I was 40 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: offered that much money by the government for doing what 41 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: I was already doing. I would take it, but I 42 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: expected better from National given that we are broke as 43 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:58,880 Speaker 1: a country and they are supposed to be careful with money. 44 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,520 Speaker 1: For more from the mic Asking Breakfast listen live to 45 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 1: News Talks at B from six am weekdays, or follow 46 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio