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Speaker 1: Barry Soper, Senior Political Correspondents with us Allo barrat Good Afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Heather so Seymour as the PM again today and.

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Speaker 2: Does he love it in the house. I mean he

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Speaker 2: revels in it and today was no exception. He clearly

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Speaker 2: had lined up a series of patsy questions as he

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Speaker 2: always does from his MP Simon Court, and fared off

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Speaker 2: an interjection from Labor about his own pet projects school lunches,

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Speaker 2: which filled him with glee.

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Speaker 3: We are delivering a healthy school lunch program at half

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Speaker 3: the price that they did and having the same percentage

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Speaker 3: of lunches sent back, which suggests the quality is the

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Speaker 3: same for half the price. If they had thought like

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Speaker 3: that a little bit more when they were in government,

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Speaker 3: maybe there'd be a bit more money to go around

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Speaker 3: in New Zealand right now. But sadly they didn't, and

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Speaker 3: that's why we've got to keep them over there and

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Speaker 3: these good people over here so it doesn't happen to

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Speaker 3: New Zealander's finances again. How is the government preparing for

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Speaker 3: potential downstream impacts of the Middle East conflict? Speaker, We've

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Speaker 3: just heard from Willie Jackson. We're doing nothing and I

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Speaker 3: can only imagine that he is relating what he did

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Speaker 3: when he was in government, as Shakespeare once said, measuring

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Speaker 3: the minds of others by his own. And in Willie

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Speaker 3: Jackson's case, you don't need a very long ruler to

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Speaker 3: make that measurement.

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Speaker 2: That's to speaker, not a bad line, I'll tell you. You know,

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Speaker 2: it's funny to watch the body language of the Seymour

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Speaker 2: when he stands in for the Prime Minister. He really

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Speaker 2: does love it. And you know, maybe he can see

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Speaker 2: way down the track in the future.

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Speaker 1: You know, who knows what can he see? Bearing Well, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean I don't think he will. But being change parties.

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Speaker 1: Tell me what, how did the Greens housing policy from

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Speaker 1: use today land?

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's an interesting one, isn't it. Because they're

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Speaker 2: promising to legislation to limit rent rises at two percent

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Speaker 2: a year, and you know that's the old rent cap.

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Speaker 2: There'll be no cause of actions would be scrapped, so

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Speaker 2: if you don't have a reason to get rid of somebody,

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Speaker 2: then you're not allowed to move them on. There'll be

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Speaker 2: a rental warrant of fitness and a register of landlords

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Speaker 2: and property managers introduced them. You know, I don't mind

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Speaker 2: the property manager thing, having had one myself in the past,

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Speaker 2: investing in public housing and ending homelessness would be increased,

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Speaker 2: so they say. Now, the launch of the policy was

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Speaker 2: made at a Wellington rental by Madame and Davison, the

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Speaker 2: co leader, and by the local MP, Tamotha Paul. Now

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Speaker 2: it was Tamotha Paul who was at that launch and

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Speaker 2: she basically asked asking questions of the Associate Minister Tom Poltucker,

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Speaker 2: who says rental increases are now almost flat.

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Speaker 4: Lighting prints up just under one percent in the year

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Speaker 4: January to twenty twenty six, which is lower than inflation.

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Speaker 4: But what we definitely won't do is start going around

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Speaker 4: putting rent controls on everyone.

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Speaker 1: What evidence does he have that rent controls would do

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Speaker 1: anything other than put a limit on rents that New

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Speaker 1: Zealanders already can't afford.

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Speaker 4: How many cities need to try and fail it solving

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Speaker 4: their rental challenges through rent controls for the Greens to

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Speaker 4: learn rent controls don't work. The Green's housing plant in

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Speaker 4: general make the housing market and you telling much worse.

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Speaker 1: Hey, did you see speaking of will I'm slightly related.

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Speaker 1: Did you see what they're charging the rate payers? In

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Speaker 1: your old stomping ground of Gore.

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Speaker 2: Well did I what? And I thought, you know, I

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Speaker 2: have never been a rate payer in Gora, unfortunately, because

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Speaker 2: it's a lovely little town. But by goodness, is it

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Speaker 2: going to cost a lot to live there. The Taxpayers

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Speaker 2: Union see it as a bit of a cause celeb

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Speaker 2: and of course the mayor and Gore is that young fellow.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now they've already endured, according to the Taxpayer's Union, of

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Speaker 2: forty six point six percent cumulative rate rise over the

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Speaker 2: past three years. That's massive, that's rough man. And then

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Speaker 2: just this week the councilors sat down and they approved,

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Speaker 2: without any consultation with the public, an eleven percent rate rise.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's incredible this little town, the one that

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Speaker 2: I grew up and is becoming awfully expensive.

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Speaker 1: Spending the money on Barry Well, that's a very good point.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you go away and figure it out and

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Speaker 1: come back and tell us tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what. They should talk to the

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Speaker 2: Taxpayer's Union, because they've written a report one hundred and

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Speaker 2: three ways to save money in local government. Now they've

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Speaker 2: given examples of how you cut your cloth, and maybe

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Speaker 2: they should be required reading for the Gore.

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Speaker 1: Council because didn't they didn't They plant some trees and

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Speaker 1: it cost a huge amount of money and then they

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Speaker 1: ripped the trees out again.

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Speaker 2: Something like that. They had the Bob Jones fish I

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Speaker 2: think done up at one stage as well.

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Speaker 1: There was a different here.

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Speaker 2: Threw a.

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Speaker 1: Blame Gore for it. Yeah, that's that's what you have

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Speaker 1: to do tomorrow, is you have to go go away

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Speaker 1: and find out what profligacy profligacy is going on in

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Speaker 1: Gore so we can understand why the child child mayor

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Speaker 1: is spending all this money.

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Speaker 2: I'll wring me old mates down there.

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Speaker 1: Good on you, Barry, Thanks very much, Barry so for

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Speaker 1: senior political correspondent.

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