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Speaker 1: I mean, it's hard to believe the Transpower Parland story

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Speaker 1: isn't really I mean, the report tells us what we

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Speaker 1: already knew. Two workers no training under the bolts tower

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Speaker 1: falls over, power goes out. Not only weren't they trained,

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Speaker 1: I suppose that's the new part of the story. Not

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Speaker 1: only weren't they trained, they didn't get proper supervision either.

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Speaker 1: So now we presumably talk about compensation or do we.

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Speaker 1: Northerland's MP Grant McCallum's with us, Grant, very good morning

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Speaker 1: to you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning Mike. Every time you hear it, you

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Speaker 2: just wonder, don't you just wonder how this possibly happened

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Speaker 2: and highlights why we actually do need to get some

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Speaker 2: recompense for the people of Northland, that's.

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Speaker 1: For sure, exactly. But the report says the compensation part

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Speaker 1: of the question was not in their purview. Who owns

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Speaker 1: and runs with this now.

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Speaker 2: Well that's up to the north of people like my

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Speaker 2: South de lairs of Northland, And it gets stuck in

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Speaker 2: to sit down and Transpound say, actually, you owe the

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Speaker 2: people of Northon a lot of anger out there. You've

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Speaker 2: heard it from the business community this morning that are

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Speaker 2: really frustrated they feel that they had burrowed something and

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Speaker 2: actually the wider community, which has been my pitch, is

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Speaker 2: for the wider community to get to get some decent

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Speaker 2: a decent check from the from Transpower, which we can

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Speaker 2: use the benefit all of Northland because everybody was affected.

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Speaker 2: The power went out to the whole province.

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Speaker 1: What what When you sit down with them, they'll go, oh,

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Speaker 1: look at some mex and go see them. Is that

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Speaker 1: fair or not?

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not in that conversation, but actually

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Speaker 2: know they I have sat down with them and that

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Speaker 2: that wasn't that didn't come into it. They understand the

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Speaker 2: relationship directly with Northern This is through Transpower, not through Mexin.

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Speaker 2: That's their issue. Good right, so very much had that

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Speaker 2: conversation directly with them. It's about Transpower putting things right

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Speaker 2: for Northland by taking this seriously and recognizing the live

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Speaker 2: of anger out there.

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Speaker 1: So when you had that conversation with Transpower, was there

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Speaker 1: a pen involved quivering over a.

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Speaker 2: Check at that point? Not at that point yet, but

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Speaker 2: we know it would be fair to say the sort

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Speaker 2: of general number they threw around was significantly lower than

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Speaker 2: I was thinking it was relevant. I said a fact

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Speaker 2: of ken of what you're talking about might be more relevant.

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Speaker 1: So we're talking tens of millions, Well, no, not.

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Speaker 2: That high, but seven figures talking at seven three.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it's a million plus. And are they of

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Speaker 1: a mind that that's what it will come to or

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Speaker 1: is there a fight here?

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Speaker 2: I think there might be a little bit of a

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Speaker 2: fighter initially, but I would like to think that particularly

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Speaker 2: after the support, which, by the way, why do you

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Speaker 2: need seventy three pages and one hundred and tweety pages

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Speaker 2: profession actually tell us that someone took too many bolts off.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you know who that would be a great

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Speaker 2: job to get it. Can get it, you know, but

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Speaker 2: you know why you need that beyond me? But no,

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Speaker 2: they they need to come with some serious coin and

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Speaker 2: take it serious, and they need to come up to North,

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Speaker 2: need to come to the North in front of the

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Speaker 2: people of North and so they actually feel and understand

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Speaker 2: the level of anger and eat stuff here.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't agree more. Go well, Grant, appreciate it very much,

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Speaker 1: Grant mckellum. What I mean before the break about everything

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Speaker 1: that's wrong with this country is you can't make this up.

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Speaker 1: It is so bad that you literally can't make it up.

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Speaker 1: We had the woman who's now gone, whose name I

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Speaker 1: can't remember, who was the head of Transpower on the

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Speaker 1: program on the day, and you looked at the pictures

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Speaker 1: and you saw them no bolts in the holes, and

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Speaker 1: you said, they take the bolts out. And then she

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Speaker 1: got all ropie with me for you know, jumping the gun.

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Speaker 1: Seventy three pages, as Grant says later, and some dumb

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Speaker 1: report costing thousands of dollars stating the bloody obvious. Two

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Speaker 1: idiots who go haven't got a brain cell to rub together.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you this question. Even if you had

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Speaker 1: never been trained to look after a pylon before, which

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Speaker 1: most of us happened, when they said go clean, it

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Speaker 1: would the first thing you do is undo all the bolts.

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Speaker 1: Is that the first thing? Honestly, even with no training

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Speaker 1: and no supervision whatsoever, all they do is give you

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Speaker 1: a still water blaster and say go clean. That would

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Speaker 1: the first thing you do be to take all the

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Speaker 1: bolts out. No, So that's what's wrong with New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: One they don't care. Two they don't train, three they

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Speaker 1: don't supervise. Four they're inconfident. And then they even want

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Speaker 1: to apologize and write a proper check. For more from

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