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Speaker 1: So eden Park won the predictable vote last night on

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Speaker 1: the council hours of debate talking about this. The key

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Speaker 1: Park Phantom Stadium will remain in the pile of maybe

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Speaker 1: one day. They're not in the clear yet though. Of

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Speaker 1: course Eden Park needs one hundred million dollars worth of

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Speaker 1: funding to actually build a new north stand, which is

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Speaker 1: the first stage of their project. So I'm joined now

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Speaker 1: by Auckland Councilor Shane Henderson, who's been across it.

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Speaker 2: Allo. Shane got a good morning.

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Speaker 1: So this was the predictable outcome, wasn't it because we

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Speaker 1: said right from the beginning no council funding. Therefore the

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Speaker 1: one that needed the least council funding gets the nod.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we saw with the council staff report before

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Speaker 2: the meeting that Eden Park had less to do to

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Speaker 2: become viable. Obviously both did had their own issues, but

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Speaker 2: so from that perspective, you know, it wasn't too surprising

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Speaker 2: as that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you've said no money, so therefore obviously Nick

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Speaker 1: Seutner and his team must be going right now cap

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Speaker 1: in hand to the government making this a national problem.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they can have confidence in raising money with

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Speaker 2: either government or the private sector because they know that

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Speaker 2: we've got the backing of the city there as they're preferred.

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Speaker 1: That and weren't they included in the fast track They were.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's another league up there as well. Should

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Speaker 2: give the public a bit more confidence too.

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Speaker 1: So you think is actually going to.

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Speaker 2: Happen, Well, yes, it seems so. I mean there's a

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Speaker 2: good bid team there and I sort of stacked their

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Speaker 2: expertise to try and raise the cash required.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we've got a load of stadiums in Auckland, three

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Speaker 1: owned by you and one that is private. The private

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Speaker 1: one is getting the big nod here, and we're still

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Speaker 1: no closer to rationalizing all of this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, actually yesterday we passed the vote on that

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Speaker 2: as well, essentially kept starting a stadium investment plan which

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Speaker 2: should hopefully guide future planning and future decision making for

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Speaker 2: stadiums in the city. So it was a huge day

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Speaker 2: for the council.

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Speaker 1: So is this an investment plan for a future stadium

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Speaker 1: or an investment plan to just knock some down and

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Speaker 1: then fixed some up.

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Speaker 2: No, it's an investment plan for the stadiums that we

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Speaker 2: already have. So we need some decision making principles to

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Speaker 2: guide that future, and so we've done that yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Well the council actually build a permanent stands on the

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Speaker 1: south of Mount smart because frankly, looking at all that

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Speaker 1: scaffolding is a bit embarrassing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that'd be one of the decisions we'll have

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Speaker 2: to make in the near future. So yeah, it's an

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Speaker 2: exciting space. But as you say, look at really is

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Speaker 2: the beginning of the conversation rather than the end.

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Speaker 1: Okay, the beginning of a conversation, a conversation we've been

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Speaker 1: having forever, mate. This is exactly the same conversation we

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Speaker 1: had in twenty eleven during the Rugby World Cup when

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Speaker 1: the government offered a half a billion dollars in all comment.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, that seems like far too much work.

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Speaker 2: Oh mate. We've been having the conversation of for decades

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Speaker 2: of the setting and I think a lot of people

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Speaker 2: are pretty sick of it now. But I hope that

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Speaker 2: this National Stadium conversation is the bit that we can

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Speaker 2: put to dead as of yesterday. So that's a good start,

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Speaker 2: all right, Well done.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much Shane Henderson for waking up early and.

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