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Speaker 1: Barry Soap is his senior political correspondent, Barry Good Afternoon

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Speaker 1: afternoon right now in the House, the school lunch singers

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Speaker 1: back with a vengeance.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it terrible? It just goes on and on and on.

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Speaker 2: I mean a Green MPEd by the name of Lawrence Sounan.

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Speaker 2: He even wrote to the Speaker's day and the House

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Speaker 2: proceedings started off with the Speakers saying, I have received

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Speaker 2: a letter from this doctor Lawrence Sunan, who apparently is

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Speaker 2: a list MP for the Greens, seeking a snap debate

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Speaker 2: on the so called explodeing school lunch. I think Jerry

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Speaker 2: was in his right mind and said, no, there won't

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Speaker 2: be a snap debate on it. When a lunch falls over,

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Speaker 2: it's not a case for Parliament to charge itself with that.

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Speaker 2: In New Zealand, I just had a look at how

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Speaker 2: many lunches we supply. We supply two hundred and thirty

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Speaker 2: thousand lunches a day. That company that went broke they

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Speaker 2: were more than one hundred thousand of those, so that's

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Speaker 2: quite significant. And I was looking around the world and

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Speaker 2: having a look at where our school lunch is being provided.

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Speaker 2: Most countries are supplying them to needy schools and needy areas.

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Speaker 2: If you think of India for example, and the Prime

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Speaker 2: Mierster could take a few tips from India on school

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Speaker 2: lunches when he goes there next week. They supply one

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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty five million school lunches a day. I

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Speaker 2: imagine that. But anyway, look Labour's Chris Hipkins. He was

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Speaker 2: banging on about how bad the school lunches are in

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Speaker 2: Parliament today, but I believe he scored something of an

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Speaker 2: own goal. How many times have we heard about that

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Speaker 2: exploding lunch and gisbon? I mean, what happened was the

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Speaker 2: kid carrying the lunch actually dropped it and splashed a

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Speaker 2: bit of the whatever the lunch was on his leg

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Speaker 2: and got burnt. Well, it's hardly an exploding lunch. The

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Speaker 2: media have called it. Many sections of the media have

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Speaker 2: called it the exploding lunch, and Hipkins himself today called

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Speaker 2: it that and the one lunch, the more than one

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Speaker 2: lunch is exploded. If you listen to Chris zipsism, why is.

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Speaker 3: He willing to wait until term two for the chaos

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Speaker 3: David Seymour's cause to the school lunch program to be fixed,

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Speaker 3: given kids are going hungry lunches are still arriving late

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Speaker 3: or not at all, some of the food is inedible,

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Speaker 3: and in the worst cases, kids are being physically injured

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Speaker 3: by exploding lunches.

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Speaker 4: Well, the incident we saw last week was unacceptable and

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Speaker 4: not something we want to see at all. I think

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Speaker 4: the Minister has fronted really clearly on that actually suspending

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Speaker 4: those type of lunches.

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Speaker 5: Through the Can the Prime Minister confirm that yesterday's on

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Speaker 5: time delivery for the Healthy School Lunch program was ninety

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Speaker 5: nine point seven four percent And is that better than

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Speaker 5: the delivery of the vaccine roll out which someone forgot

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Speaker 5: to order.

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Speaker 2: Ouch, And don't forget that Chris Sipkins was the COVID minute.

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Speaker 2: Of course he was at the time, so that was

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Speaker 2: a bit of a good comeback.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I guess there's the politics of it, and then there's

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Speaker 1: why did we give these guys the contract if they

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Speaker 1: were six weeks from going balley up so they knew

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Speaker 1: it's right.

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Speaker 2: So I'm strange.

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Speaker 1: David Seymour on the show after five on that. Now,

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Speaker 1: this investment summit kicking off this week in Auckland and

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Speaker 1: the Greens are waiting in.

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Speaker 2: Well, they were in Parliament today and if yesterday's polls

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Speaker 2: anything to go by, of course the Labor led government

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Speaker 2: will have the Greens at the Cabinet table have a

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Speaker 2: listen to their co leader Madam and Davidson quizzing the

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister in Parliament about the summit and how comfortable

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Speaker 2: are you with the sort of her sort of economic thinking.

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Speaker 6: What exactly is his growth strategy to utilize and develop

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Speaker 6: our local wealth base here in altoa New Zealand.

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Speaker 4: Has done a very very poor job over a number

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Speaker 4: of decades of attracting capital to New Zealand.

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Speaker 6: Is it fair that the biggest early childhood education provider

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Speaker 6: that New Zealanders have to send their tamadiqi so they

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Speaker 6: can go to mahe pulled in thirty two million dollars

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Speaker 6: of tax free profits last year while most people are

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Speaker 6: struggling to get by.

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Speaker 4: I mean, this is just characterized as the Greens position,

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Speaker 4: doesn't it It's ad growth agenda of living in a

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Speaker 4: hermit kingdom.

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Speaker 6: Will the Prime Minister increase public ownership of the basic

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Speaker 6: things we all need just to live, like school lunches,

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Speaker 6: healthcare and childcare or will he choose to sell off

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Speaker 6: I'll tell I have.

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Speaker 4: To say the Greens are totally deluded on economics. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I don't know how to say it any other way.

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Speaker 2: It was Shane Jones yelling out Maxus Maxis in the background.

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Speaker 2: But look, it is interesting, isn't I heard your editorial.

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Speaker 2: And you know it's been traditionally so hard to raise

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Speaker 2: capital in this country because we simply don't have enough.

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Speaker 2: I mean, these people are trillionaires coming to the country.

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Speaker 2: Six trillion dollars is represented this investment summit, a lot

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Speaker 2: of money, and I've heard from some very senior people

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Speaker 2: involved in the investment community saying the problem with New

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Speaker 2: Zealand up until now is they haven't had projects to offer. Now,

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Speaker 2: hopefully over the next few days Thursday and Friday, we'll

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Speaker 2: see a number of projects on the table so that

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Speaker 2: these people can look at them and say, yeah, that

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Speaker 2: could be a good invent.

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Speaker 1: And hopefully having Barbara Edmonds at the giving a speech

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Speaker 1: to there and showing her support make of them an

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Speaker 1: indication that yeah, it's good. It's good because you need consistency. Yeah, Barry,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. No problem is always Barry Soper,

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