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Speaker 1: Jason Wall's News Talk Zby's political editors with us. Hey Jason,

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Speaker 1: Happy Friday, Ryan, Happy Friday to you too. So we

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Speaker 1: were talking about this earlier, the Jan Tinetti thing bit

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Speaker 1: of an embarrassment over school lunches.

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Speaker 2: For them, embarrassment, I think is a bit of an understatement,

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Speaker 2: to be honest. You would have seen the stories about

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Speaker 2: some of the school free lunches coming in yesterday and today,

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Speaker 2: and you know it's fair to say there's mixed reviews.

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Speaker 2: When I tested some when they came down to Parliament,

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Speaker 2: I actually thought that they were great. I had the

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Speaker 2: butter chicken and the ressols.

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Speaker 1: I had two of.

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Speaker 2: Them because they're quite small, and I've forgot my lunch

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Speaker 2: that day, so it worked out quite well. But of

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Speaker 2: course you're going to get the group of people that'll

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Speaker 2: turn their nose up at them and say and then

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Speaker 2: go find a reporter that they can complain to, and

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Speaker 2: as sure as night follows day, that is what happened.

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Speaker 3: I will say.

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Speaker 2: There is a photo of a particularly bad looking lunch

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Speaker 2: with some lentils and a ball of pasta that looks

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Speaker 2: particularly woeful, But you know it's day four, Okay. There

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Speaker 2: will be some teething issues, and if we were having

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Speaker 2: these problems in say, six months time, we would have

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Speaker 2: more of an issue then. But someone who was quick

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Speaker 2: to hop on the head hate train, as you said,

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Speaker 2: was Labour's Education spokesperson Jan Toinetti. Have a listened to

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Speaker 2: what she said on social media and I.

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Speaker 3: Think that this is a hamburger.

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Speaker 1: I'm not certain, but I'm.

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Speaker 2: Thinking that's what it is.

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Speaker 4: This is absolutely disgraceful.

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Speaker 2: Now, the problem with that is the hamburger she's talking about,

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Speaker 2: and the hamburger that she's pointing to in this video

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Speaker 2: is from the school lunches when Labor were in government,

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Speaker 2: when she was the Associate Education Minister. This was one

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Speaker 2: of the hamburgers that they were giving to kids. So

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Speaker 2: it's a massive, massive own goal here.

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Speaker 3: All they had to do was repost the picture that

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Speaker 3: already looked pretty grim and they would have done the

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Speaker 3: work form, but they had to screw it up by

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Speaker 3: making this colossal error and really just undermining their own

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Speaker 3: credibility on this one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I just can't do anything right, can they? That lot?

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Speaker 1: They're just a bit of a mess. Do you find

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Speaker 1: Jan Denisi's KEII accent hilarious? Jason is it just me?

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Speaker 2: Oh listen, mate, I cannot be the one commenting on

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Speaker 2: accents here for obvious reasons.

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Speaker 1: It's thats graceful anyway, Duned and they're getting the new hospital.

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Speaker 1: So Simeon Brown has been I guess he's been crafty

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Speaker 1: in a way because he's doing the same floor area,

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Speaker 1: but he's he's managed to reduce the number of beds

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Speaker 1: that from what Labor was proposing, so we'll end up

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Speaker 1: with basically empty floors that can be filled in later.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean if you look the way that

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Speaker 2: they're doing with the beds, they said that there is

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Speaker 2: going to be closer to one hundred or four hundred

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Speaker 2: and four or thereabouts when they can finally get a

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Speaker 2: capacity at three hundred and fifty one on opening. And

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Speaker 2: so the current hospital capacity is about three hundred and

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Speaker 2: ninety six beds, and Labor they were planning to get

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Speaker 2: it closer to four hundred and tans. Look, there are

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Speaker 2: a few extra beds here when you when you do

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Speaker 2: the calculations and you take this through to the entirety.

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Speaker 2: But the point that Simeon Brown was making today, and

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Speaker 2: you have to give a bit of credit to Shane

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Speaker 2: Ratti here because he would have done most of this

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Speaker 2: and this is just Simeon Brown sort of putting the

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Speaker 2: cherry on top. On the end is the fact that

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Speaker 2: they've got the down. It was Chris Bishop who came

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Speaker 2: out and said, essentially the fact that this project has

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Speaker 2: blown out to three billion dollars, making it the most

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Speaker 2: expensive or one of the most expensive hospitals ever built

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Speaker 2: in the Southern Hemisphere just simply was not acceptable. So they've,

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Speaker 2: according to Seeming and got that down to about one

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Speaker 2: point eight eight billion dollars. And he was quite confident

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Speaker 2: about this budget as well. Talking today.

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Speaker 4: Last year the government invested an extra two hundred and

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Speaker 4: ninety million dollars towards the new Dunedin Hospital project, bringing

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Speaker 4: the total funding for the project to one point eight

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Speaker 4: eight billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: Now, he says that this is going to get underway

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Speaker 2: in terms of the boots and odds, shovels in the

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Speaker 2: ground and construction on the new site, which is on

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Speaker 2: the where the former Cadbury Chocolate factory was in Dunedin.

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Speaker 2: Fun little fact there, within the next six months. So

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Speaker 2: we'll keep an eye on that one. But they're going

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Speaker 2: to be scrutinized the entire way here because you know

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Speaker 2: the people of Dunedin were rightly quite upset that the

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Speaker 2: project was canned, but I think the government was probably

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Speaker 2: right to look at it and see this is blown

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Speaker 2: out stronomically and we need to bring the costs back down.

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Speaker 1: some certainty today that it's something at least is going

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