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Speaker 1: Fluoride funny old thing. I like it personally, not too much,

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Speaker 1: just enough to help out in the water. Not everyone,

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Speaker 1: of course, she has that view, but science is on

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Speaker 1: the right side of things, I think generally. Before he

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Speaker 1: left his job, Ashley Bloomfield, you remember him, he issued

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Speaker 1: an edict to a number of councils to fluoridate the

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Speaker 1: local water. He had the power to compel them to

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Speaker 1: do this. Most have. Some have had a little bit

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Speaker 1: of banks around at tarn Or recently. Wasn't thrilled. But

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Speaker 1: the problem was if you didn't or don't, you can

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Speaker 1: be fined a couple of hundred thousand dollars and then

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Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars a day for each day after that

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Speaker 1: if you don't follow the rules. Fung Array on Friday

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Speaker 1: voted not to Their argument was several fold by the

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Speaker 1: way it was type vote seven to six. Public gallery

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Speaker 1: was full. I can bet who it was full of. Anyway.

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Speaker 1: The mayor says fluoride won't help the local area's dental hygiene,

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Speaker 1: which is of course complete nonsense and probably why we

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Speaker 1: have people specializing in the health area as opposed to

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Speaker 1: counselors who generally specialize in nothing. They also argued the

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Speaker 1: area doesn't want it. A decent question to ask is

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Speaker 1: does that matter? I mean, are there areas and issues

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Speaker 1: where the local authorities don't get to say kind of

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Speaker 1: like we don't get to set our own speed limits

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Speaker 1: or whether we pay our taxes? Or do you argue

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Speaker 1: at local level democracy is everything? Mind you even if

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Speaker 1: you dig it did argue that they didn't poll everyone,

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Speaker 1: so who knows what the locals and totality think. Interesting

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Speaker 1: thing for me is is this an issue you really

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Speaker 1: want to die on a hill over? If you're a

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Speaker 1: council in the northern part of this country, are you

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Speaker 1: honestly telling me this is as pressing as it gets.

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Speaker 1: Forget the dilapidated state of the place, the fact it

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Speaker 1: gets cut off from the country too often, the grinding poverty,

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Speaker 1: the health issues. How long do you want the list? No? No, no,

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Speaker 1: we will defy Wellington and get fined over fluoride. See

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Speaker 1: too many councils nationally of late and not giving local

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Speaker 1: representation a good name, and this lot aren't helping. For

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