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Speaker 1: ACC has pressed pause on a forty five million dollar

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Speaker 1: sexual violence prevention campaign, which has only been running since September. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is only days after the ACC Minister suggested that

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Speaker 1: ACC might shed its responsibility for claims from sexual abuse

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Speaker 1: victims and the ACC Minister of Scott Simpson Hay Scott, Hello, heavar.

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Speaker 1: Are they are these two things connected? Are they pausing

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Speaker 1: this campaign because you may actually shed the responsibility for

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Speaker 1: the claims?

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Speaker 2: No, not connected at all, and there's no intention to

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Speaker 2: shared responsibility. But ACC's an independent Crown entity, as I

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Speaker 2: think we all know. All they've done is just pause

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Speaker 2: this program while they have a look at it, evaluate

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Speaker 2: it and make sure that they're getting the best results

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Speaker 2: for the victims of sexual violence. That's probably a good

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Speaker 2: thing for them to do, to make sure that the

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Speaker 2: program's working.

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Speaker 1: Did you not say last week though on Friday, that

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Speaker 1: the government could make changes that would mean ACC would

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Speaker 1: not need to pay those claims.

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Speaker 2: No, different matter completely. This is a program that ACC has,

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Speaker 2: as in its own dependent way, decided to pause and

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Speaker 2: have a look at to see whether it is being

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Speaker 2: effective or not.

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Speaker 1: No, I know you said ACC is not shedding responsibility.

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Speaker 1: Did you not say on Friday that it may in

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Speaker 1: fact shed responsibility.

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Speaker 2: No, I did not. What I said was that there

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Speaker 2: have been a number of court cases that extend the

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Speaker 2: range of expectations that ACC is meant to provide. So ACC,

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Speaker 2: I just want to assure you and listeners heither that

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Speaker 2: ACC will always be available to support victims of sexual

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Speaker 2: violence and there's no consideration of any proposals otherwise.

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Speaker 1: All right, Scott, thank you very much, Scotsimpson, ACC Minister,

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Speaker 1: I just I'm just going to read this to UK.

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Speaker 1: On Friday, Scott Simpson told the Post that it was

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Speaker 1: a live and current question as to whether the government

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Speaker 1: might make changes that meant claims that arose from the

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Speaker 1: Court of Appeal ruling, which is about sexual abuse weren't

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Speaker 1: funded through ACC. Quote. What I'm saying is perhaps we

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Speaker 1: need to have a conversation as a nation about what

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Speaker 1: is the best vehicle to provide that care, support and

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Speaker 1: assistance and whether it's ACC that to end quote. That

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Speaker 1: to me sounds like he has raised the possibility and

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Speaker 1: suggested that ACC might in fact shed it. Just the

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Speaker 1: opposite of what he just told us.

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