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Speaker 1: So this debate around the Privileges Committee and their decision

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Speaker 1: over the marry Party that starts today, as we've said,

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Speaker 1: set to be a long winded, largely pointless exercise. If

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Speaker 1: you can be bothered get a read on where each

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Speaker 1: of the parties stand why, because you will find that

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Speaker 1: some parties do not agree with the committee and think

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Speaker 1: the so called punishment is a little bit hard now.

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Speaker 1: The Prime Minister asked about this yesterday's post cabinet press conference.

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Speaker 1: In fact, they were the first questions asked, which was

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Speaker 1: a bit sad and yet again a reminder of how

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Speaker 1: the press gallery is not really interested in the news

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Speaker 1: of the day and perhaps even the good news of

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Speaker 1: the day, because the good news of the day came

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Speaker 1: from the Finance Minister who were standing next to him

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Speaker 1: at said conference and a bit busy up to the

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Speaker 1: question bit outlining some new tax treatment for investment and

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Speaker 1: payments for startups, the stuff we've just been talking about,

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Speaker 1: and business is looking for a bit of a relief

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Speaker 1: around rules and paperwork that got scant coverage despite the

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Speaker 1: fact these are the very sorts of issues, ideas and

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Speaker 1: policies that will drag this beleagued economy out of the

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Speaker 1: quagmire it's currently stuck in. As regards the Privileges Committee,

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Speaker 1: for the record, the PM stood firm on the ensuing

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Speaker 1: debate and whether or not by bargaining away the decision

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Speaker 1: it could expedite what could be days of time wasting.

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Speaker 1: Now why this matters is because standards matter, and standards

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Speaker 1: in this country have become embarrassing. What the Maori Party

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Speaker 1: did was fascical as well as embarrassing. And it was

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Speaker 1: not because they're Maori or because what they did was Maori.

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Speaker 1: It was because they broke the rules and rules count

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Speaker 1: or should count, because when they don't, people like the

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Speaker 1: Mari Party into a lesser degree. The Labour Party in

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Speaker 1: the Greens bring us all into distribute. Believe it or not,

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Speaker 1: there are large swaths of this country that find what

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Speaker 1: has been happening at our highest level of leadership to

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Speaker 1: be completely and utterly shocking as well as embarrassing and needless.

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Speaker 1: And we're more than over it. And by asking whether

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Speaker 1: the Government can plea bargain it away so we can

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Speaker 1: skip a lengthy, boring debate is systematic and the problem itself, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I deal with it when we can ignore it or

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Speaker 1: water it down. If those who think this is all

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Speaker 1: okay want to debate it and remind us what mediocre

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Speaker 1: looks like, that's on them. For more from the Mic

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