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Speaker 1: The government is celebrating success in the fight to get

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Speaker 1: people out of emergency housing. It says almost fifteen hundred

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Speaker 1: kids have been moved out of these motels and so on.

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Speaker 1: The Associate Minister of Housing is Pamaportuck a high commer.

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Speaker 2: Do you order here? They are?

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Speaker 1: I'm well thanks mate. So these almost fifteen hundred kids

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Speaker 1: are they all being moved into state houses now?

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Speaker 2: Well, blue street seats a blue Sheheed's carrigory. We've nearly

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Speaker 2: moved fifteen hundred young tamatiki into social housing. But in

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Speaker 2: thinkt the total number of tomaticky or children that have

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Speaker 2: left emergency house and is nearing two thousand, five hundred.

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Speaker 1: Oh where have the other thousand gone?

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Speaker 2: Well, some of them have not gone into social housing.

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Speaker 2: They've just left gone into private housing, houses that attracted

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Speaker 2: in accommodation of them. They've gone into different types of housing.

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Speaker 2: But we've seen a massive shift.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's good stuff, isn't that? How many kids

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Speaker 1: are still left in this kind of motel situation?

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Speaker 2: When we came in, there were nearly thirty five hundred.

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Speaker 2: Now there are less than twelve hundred.

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Speaker 1: And what do we do about them? How quickly can

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Speaker 1: you get them out?

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Speaker 2: Well, really focused there. As we said, we've got our

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Speaker 2: government target number eight. The goal is to get seventy

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Speaker 2: five percent of households out. We've reached sixty two percent

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Speaker 2: of nine months. I think it's good form, but we've

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Speaker 2: got a long way to go. We've got the priority one.

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Speaker 2: So when children have been living in an emergency five

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Speaker 2: over twelve weeks, they get near to the top of

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Speaker 2: a social housing register and we try to get them

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Speaker 2: out of housing, first, emergency housing, out of that gang place.

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Speaker 2: And separately we're also try other ways to encourage people

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Speaker 2: to leave emergency and not just as the socialism but

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Speaker 2: into private housing.

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Speaker 1: Now, why are you guys still putting this problem? This

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Speaker 1: is the motel problem on Retrure.

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Speaker 2: Well, retre has very very few people in emergency housing,

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Speaker 2: but there are a lot of families, maybe one hundred

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Speaker 2: and forty families with children that are in what is

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Speaker 2: known as contracted emergency housing. It's like transitional housing. In

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Speaker 2: order to get them moving, we have to make sure

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Speaker 2: we've got the right mix of social housing and private

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Speaker 2: housing available in the community. There hasn't been an there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of building going on and we look forward

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Speaker 2: to moving many of those families out in the next

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Speaker 2: six to twelve months.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but hold on a ticket. You know what I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about here. This is the application for the seven

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Speaker 1: emergency housing motels still operating InTru to continue.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Those are for contracted emergency which is set up

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Speaker 2: for families and it's like transitional and you have to

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Speaker 2: renew those licenses every one or two years. If we

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Speaker 2: just said, oh, we're not going to renew those licenses,

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Speaker 2: then those finos we don't have a place to go to.

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Speaker 2: On the other side, would supply we are building a

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Speaker 2: housing in little to do it. We think over the

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Speaker 2: next twelve or six to twelve months and by the

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Speaker 2: end of percent for next year, we won't have any

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Speaker 2: more need for those particular hotels.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So didn't you guys promise at the last election

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Speaker 1: to end this nonsense?

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Speaker 2: In retrue, we said we're promised by the end of

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, and.

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Speaker 1: You still intend to meet that promise?

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Speaker 2: Correct?

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Speaker 1: Okay, what are you going to do with the situation

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Speaker 1: with Ihumarto? Are you going to sack this group?

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Speaker 2: Look, it's not an easy solution and it's not an

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Speaker 2: easy we support the group to come up with an

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Speaker 2: enduring solution, one that basically drives potato or unity. It's

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Speaker 2: not something that we can just stream up today, but

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Speaker 2: we certainly are looking for protus.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but hang on, tick, it's quite easy. You could

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Speaker 1: just sack them and get some other people who actually

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Speaker 1: can do the job.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a view. But I think they are

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Speaker 2: making some progress and to come into a solution that everyone.

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Speaker 1: Can What progress are you seeing that we're not seeing?

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I can't disclose all confident discussing well, that

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Speaker 2: sounds like there's no truth. But what I can't say

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Speaker 2: is is that I think they're in a bit of

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Speaker 2: set around what the potential options are to stay than

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Speaker 2: they were two years ago.

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Speaker 1: What are you talking about that in a that sounds

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Speaker 1: like bs That just sounds like them finally coming closer

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Speaker 1: to something. There's two years Come on, mate, be harder

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Speaker 1: on them.

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Speaker 2: As I said in the house today, the very zistic

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Speaker 2: when I attended one or two meetings this year, which

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Speaker 2: the previous minister had not attended any meetings, and certainly

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Speaker 2: I'm committed to supporting that FOCAHTI to come to a solution.

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Speaker 2: They had five years. We're up to year three. I've

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Speaker 2: been there for one year and I think it's better now.

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Speaker 1: Than it was when I rof Are you going to

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Speaker 1: give them another two years.

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Speaker 2: After supporting to all for FUCKAHRDI to get to a solution.

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Speaker 2: That's what I'm committed to.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, not a good that's cool. What are you on?

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Speaker 1: Are you hanging up on me now?

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Speaker 2: No? No, not at all. Waiting for your next question.

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Speaker 1: Oh well that My next question is about that. So

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Speaker 1: are you just answer this for me? Are you are

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Speaker 1: you going to give them another two years to have

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Speaker 1: this this talk? First?

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Speaker 2: Well, the way it was set up by the previous

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Speaker 2: government means the crown actually has very little role in this.

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Speaker 2: We appoint two members to that all too. That's that

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Speaker 2: all predicts together and as dealing to this issue were previously.

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Speaker 2: The budget was supported by the previous government, and right

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Speaker 2: now I'm continuing to the members to come to us

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Speaker 2: and then solution. That's where I'm at.

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Speaker 1: Tamer, thank you, thank you for not hanging up on

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Speaker 1: me as well. By the way, that's Summer Paul Taka,

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