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Speaker 1: Change coming to booze and it's delivery everything from limiting

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Speaker 1: liquor license objections to headdress is serving a bit of

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Speaker 1: save with a blow drive. Virginia Nichols, as the executive

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Speaker 1: director of the Alcohol Beverages Council, and as will us Virginia,

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Speaker 1: good morning.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning mate.

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Speaker 1: I can find nothing that's bad in here, can you.

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Speaker 2: No, it's very very positive news and it's a really

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Speaker 2: good common sense approach to help improve our licensing system.

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Speaker 2: Although we think there is some room to go further

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Speaker 2: to simplify and streamline the licensing system, which we think

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Speaker 2: is actually no longer fit for purpose. Can I speak

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Speaker 2: on that, Mike?

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Speaker 1: Can I just show as yours Virginia. I'm just here

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Speaker 1: to facilitate your thoughts.

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Speaker 2: So in New Zealand, we have District Licensing Committees or DLC.

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Speaker 2: They set up by sixty seven different territorial licensing authorities

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Speaker 2: or councils under the Act, and they decide licensing matters

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Speaker 2: in their district. So the industry very much supported the

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Speaker 2: intention of the Act when it delegated responsibility for alcohol

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Speaker 2: licensing to local communities. But however, it's really difficult to

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Speaker 2: get consistency across sixty seven different dlseas and over time

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Speaker 2: we no longer have consistent application of licensing regulations around

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Speaker 2: New Zealand for both on license for restaurants, et cetera

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Speaker 2: and off license to the bottle stores. It's not the

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Speaker 2: fault of authorities, but it is a reflection of an

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Speaker 2: out of date and out of steps set. Are rules

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Speaker 2: that don't acknowledge a difference between a really good and

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Speaker 2: bad license holder and a business operator, and I'm happy

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Speaker 2: to go into that, but I think we need open

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Speaker 2: conversations around reducing the number of district licensing committees to

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Speaker 2: promote more consistency, and it's been discussed at the moment

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Speaker 2: in the Ministry of Regulations ongoing review of the hospitality

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Speaker 2: sector and it's worked to improve licensing and the principles

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Speaker 2: of this review should also consider the off license of

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Speaker 2: bottle stores and supermarkets as well well.

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Speaker 1: I think we're on the right track at least. Virginia,

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time. Virginia Inicourse, she stole the floor, promise

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Speaker 1: and when dancing didn't she fantastic? She'd be excellent In

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