1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:02,160 Speaker 1: Jamie McKay, Host of the Countries has been ow. 2 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 2: Hey, Jimi, Hello, Heather. I watched his speech from the 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:09,039 Speaker 2: Resolute disc. I didn't realize it was called that either 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 2: the poor old bugger couldn't even read the autoqu promptly 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 2: he should have gone months ago. Anyhow, it is what 6 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 2: it is, and Carmela's sort of put a bit of 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:20,760 Speaker 2: spark into the race again. 8 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,240 Speaker 1: Yeah for now, Jamie, I think it's going to wear 9 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:25,440 Speaker 1: off because then everybody's going to be reminded very shortly 10 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 1: of why they didn't like her in twenty twenty. But anyway, 11 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 1: we'll just let them go through that little process by themselves. 12 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: What do you make of this situation with the tomorow 13 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: or to why statement in the Otago Regional Council and 14 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: the potential cost of like fifty thousand dollars a ratepayer? 15 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 2: Hey, just before we go to that, Heather, And I'm 16 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 2: not ducking for cover here, I'm just going into bat 17 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 2: for Barry Soaper, Darcy water Grave and Andrew Dickins and those other. 18 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: How allowed your headphones, Jamie. 19 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 2: Well, look, I'm not like Winston Peters who wears headphones 20 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 2: underneath so he wears the bit that goes over the top. 21 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 2: He wears it underneath chin so as not in the 22 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 2: hair here. Yeah, but I all, in all my thirty 23 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 2: years in radio, I've just been a one air man, 24 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:10,920 Speaker 2: so that has given me an issue in one air, 25 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 2: I'm a bit deaf in one ear. 26 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: You guys the same ear all the time. 27 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 2: Yep, same air, left air all the time. So my 28 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 2: right has got much better hearing because I find it. 29 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 2: For someone in the studio, it's actually better to one 30 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,319 Speaker 2: ear on them. But anyhow, I digress. Are we But 31 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 2: the other reason I'm slightly deaf, my wife would say 32 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 2: totally deaf, is because as a young twenty year old 33 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 2: I spent a winter on a chainsaw chopping down trees 34 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 2: and we didn't wear ear musk. 35 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 1: One winter was enough to do that damage. 36 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,199 Speaker 2: What's that? 37 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: I don't know. 38 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 2: I don't know if you're joking, joke, you picked up 39 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 2: on my joke? 40 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: Okay, good, thank god, Okay, listen, tell me what you 41 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 1: think about the cost for the Tomnial to white statements. 42 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 2: Oh, look, I've I probably can't tell you what I 43 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 2: rarely think because I would be canceled. Look, someone's got 44 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 2: to stand up, and I think David Seema was doing 45 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:08,919 Speaker 2: this and say, look, enough is enough when it comes 46 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 2: to this sort of stuff. I heard Luke Cain talking 47 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 2: to you at five thirty one hundred and ten million 48 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 2: for a couple of small towns four to five hundred people, 49 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars per right payer, obviously not sustainable over 50 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 2: the Otago region that would mean billions of dollars effectively. Look, 51 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 2: this is the Otago Regional Council and I don't know 52 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 2: how did they actually get around to giving you a statement? 53 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: Yes, but and I was actually going to get round 54 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 1: to talking about it. In the statement, they don't really 55 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:39,480 Speaker 1: answer the question. So we've asked will the cost of 56 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: this be released to the public, and their answer is 57 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:43,680 Speaker 1: that there is not a separate cost of applying TIM 58 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: on all ti Y, which is just byes. There obviously 59 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: is a separate cost. They just don't want to talk 60 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: about it. 61 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 2: This is an organization that's dysfunctional, you know, and they 62 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,399 Speaker 2: would be better off rather than worrying about this, try 63 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:58,320 Speaker 2: and do something about their rates, which were projected to 64 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 2: be twenty one point three percent. They have slashed them. 65 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:04,679 Speaker 2: Heather the Good for the goodness from the Goodness of 66 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 2: their heart to just eighteen point six percent of the 67 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,320 Speaker 2: current year. They run the buses here in Dunedin and 68 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 2: literally they couldn't run a bath. But getting back to 69 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 2: the other one, Look, all this nonsense about water going 70 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:20,959 Speaker 2: can't be put into a waterway if it's passed through 71 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 2: a human body. And the other one, what's the other one? 72 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 1: The other one is you can't take it from one 73 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: water body like one stream and put into the other. 74 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 2: Yeah, which is a load of bollocks because the likes 75 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 2: of I think it's the Manaherrakia water races have been 76 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 2: going for a century now and they draw water from 77 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 2: one water body and discharge to another. Look, it's just 78 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 2: got out of control. And I hope the Otago I 79 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,160 Speaker 2: just hope the ratepayers and the people of Otago get 80 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 2: stuck into the Otago Regional Council. They're a disgrace. 81 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 1: If you ask me, I agree with you, Jamie, Thank 82 00:03:57,600 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: you very much, Jamie mckaye, host of the Country. 83 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 2: For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to 84 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:06,960 Speaker 2: Newstalk Set B from four pm weekdays, or follow the 85 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 2: podcast on iHeartRadio.