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Speaker 1: Big Dame Parliament back in business today. The first question

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Speaker 1: time won't be to tomorrow, but top of the agenda

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Speaker 1: is oral submissions on the Treaty Principles Bill. It is

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Speaker 1: the start of a full week process. David Seymour is

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Speaker 1: kicking things off this morning. Peter Dunn is the political

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Speaker 1: commentator with US former Leader of the United Future. Peter,

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Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning. I am so are we expecting

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Speaker 1: fireworks today? What's going to happen?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Look, I think from the likely list of submitters,

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Speaker 2: it's going to be pretty predictable for the positions that

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Speaker 2: they'll take. I think the question that's going to sort

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Speaker 2: of dog this whole process will be just how it

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Speaker 2: is handled, because there will be strong views expressed, and

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Speaker 2: just how the committee deals with those as it works

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Speaker 2: through the process. Over the next few weeks.

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Speaker 1: We've got two day tea mocks in there, Andrew Little

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Speaker 1: Hobson's pledge, David seam or Dennis O'Reilly form a Black

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Speaker 1: Power member. Do they have they've got ten minutes to talk?

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Speaker 1: Is there then time for questions?

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Speaker 2: Well, ideally there should be, but but the timetable leaf

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Speaker 2: sets pretty tough. Signs expecting this probably are only going

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Speaker 2: to be about fifteen to twenty minutes per submission, which

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Speaker 2: means the ten minutes to talk and maybe only ten

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Speaker 2: five to ten minutes for questions. If I was a

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Speaker 2: witness and being smart, I think I've limited my verbal

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Speaker 2: presentation to about five minutes for our more time for questioning.

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Speaker 2: But it's going to be a very tight process all

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Speaker 2: the way through.

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Speaker 1: Who's allowed in the room to watch well?

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Speaker 2: As I understand that it's being held in public. All

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Speaker 2: select committees normally meet in public, so basically whoever can

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Speaker 2: fit will be allowed in the room. Now, that could

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Speaker 2: be interesting what tends to happen in these things as

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Speaker 2: groups of supporters arrive for particular submissions and then depart

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Speaker 2: once those have been heard. But there could be some

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Speaker 2: people who want to stay the entire distance, and I

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Speaker 2: think there'll just be some usual logistical problems of fitting

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Speaker 2: them all in.

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Speaker 1: Lux And of course wants nothing to do with this.

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Speaker 1: How does he play this? He's got post gave this

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Speaker 1: afternoon in parliament, be in the house tomorrow presumably, how

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Speaker 1: does he handle it? Well?

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Speaker 2: I think he's got to carry on doing what he's doing,

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Speaker 2: and that is try and keep some distance from it.

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Speaker 2: The problem here is that he's got an issue that

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Speaker 2: there's not of his making, but he's committed to seeing

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Speaker 2: through to a certain stage which is going to take

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Speaker 2: some time yet, and yet he bears all the flat

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Speaker 2: from the negativity associated with it. So he's in a

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Speaker 2: no win position. But having said that, he like all

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Speaker 2: the other parties, have backed themselves into corners on their

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Speaker 2: respective positions before in the case of Actor, or against

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Speaker 2: in the case of everyone else, and I don't think

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Speaker 2: any of them can really afford to change their position

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Speaker 2: over the next few months.

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Speaker 1: Peter, thank you so much for that. Peter Dunpolittal, commentator.

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Speaker 1: It's all kicking off the Justice Select Committee in Wellington today.

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