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Speaker 1: I'm first agreed to disagree clause and voked as part

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Speaker 1: of the coalition deal in New Zealand First not happy

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Speaker 1: over the Act call to extend the COVID inquiry two parts.

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Speaker 1: Current bit that's underway is the issue. New Zealand First

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Speaker 1: sees that as a Labor Party stitch up Act. Want

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Speaker 1: it concluded before the second bit gets underway. Our political

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Speaker 1: editor Jason Wills with us, Jason, very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: To make some credit to Luxeon if this plays out

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Speaker 1: the way we hope. In other words, New Zealand First disagrees,

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Speaker 1: they pull the trigger on the clause. That's life and

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Speaker 1: we move on. That's mature, isn't it exactly?

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Speaker 2: And that's what Christopher Luxon was it pains to say yesterday.

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Speaker 2: This isn't a coalition and chaos or cracks in the

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Speaker 2: coalition agreement. This is exactly essentially how it's supposed to

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Speaker 2: work between the two parties. And that's why this clause

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Speaker 2: was written into the coalition arrangement and the Act Party

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Speaker 2: has one as well. We saw this exercise with New

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Speaker 2: Zealand First and the Labor Government the last time around,

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Speaker 2: although it happened quite a lot towards the end of

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Speaker 2: the tenure, and it was a little less civil than

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Speaker 2: this one. But yeah, as Christopher Luxon said, this is

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Speaker 2: just a mature way of going about it. I mean,

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Speaker 2: the worst case scenario would be a situation where New

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Speaker 2: Zealand first were leaking this sort of information or Winston

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Speaker 2: was coming out and making a fuss publicly. But if

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Speaker 2: you haven't agreed to disagree clause and things are still

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Speaker 2: going ahead the way that cabinet decided, then everything essentially

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Speaker 2: is going expected.

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Speaker 1: What's the act argument about keeping Part one in place,

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Speaker 1: cost and waste? They're underway, we might as well see

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Speaker 1: what they got.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much. I mean we've had a whole Phase

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Speaker 2: one that we didn't know was just Phase one until

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Speaker 2: very recently, and they said that it's the fiscally prudent

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Speaker 2: way forward in terms of going forward with that inquiry.

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Speaker 2: Brock van Velden, who was in charge of this, so

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Speaker 2: that there was a lot of evidence gathered to day

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Speaker 2: and it would have been a waste of evidence, resource

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Speaker 2: and the commissioner's time to end this and just essentially

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Speaker 2: do away with all of that information. So, I mean

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Speaker 2: it's a very act party reason and it makes sense

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Speaker 2: as well. I mean, they have already collected a lot

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Speaker 2: of information from that COVID inquiry. It would be it

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Speaker 2: wouldn't make a lot of sense just to throw it away,

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Speaker 2: just to do it again.

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Speaker 1: Timeframe is a problem for me. I mean, twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six is a long time away, and that's a lot

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Speaker 1: of investigation, a lot of money, a lot of energy,

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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that a lot of people, I mean,

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Speaker 2: no one's going to forget about COVID, but a lot

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Speaker 2: of the initial concerns that people had, you know, by

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Speaker 2: that time, there's a lot of other things that have

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Speaker 2: happened by that time. So it's a long time I mean.

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Speaker 2: But then again, you would say that this COVID was

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Speaker 2: a big thing and it's going to take a long

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Speaker 2: time to gather all this information. But a lot of

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Speaker 2: people will be looking at that time frame and thinking, look,

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Speaker 2: that's just too long.

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Speaker 1: Always a pleasure. Jason go Well to die Jason Wolves,

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