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Speaker 1: The Hawks Bay Regional Council is facing flak over a

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Speaker 1: Facebook post which features photos of patched Gang members inside

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Speaker 1: council chambers. Now the council uploaded the posts to Facebook.

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Speaker 1: It included the gang members celebrating the decision to retain

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Speaker 1: the Maori wards. Simon Brown, who's the local government minister,

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Speaker 1: is really upset at this. He said it was appalling.

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Speaker 1: They are intimidating and you're not allowed patches. It's against

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Speaker 1: the law. So what were they doing their Honeywhite Ormspi's

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Speaker 1: the hawks Bay Regional Council chair and she joins me

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Speaker 1: this morning, Mordenna Martina Ryan, thanks for being with me,

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Speaker 1: Simmy and Brown is not happy. What do you reckon?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I'd just like to take us through sort

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Speaker 2: of the event that happens on Wednesday. So we were

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Speaker 2: in council chambers. We were obviously discussing an important matter

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Speaker 2: around Mali representations through our two Marti constituencies, and look,

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Speaker 2: that was a very common environment. Near the end, in

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Speaker 2: the middle of deliberations, we had Mungleman members come into

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Speaker 2: the chambers. It was it was quite packed as it was,

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Speaker 2: and the best thing in that situation, ready to do

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Speaker 2: was bring the discussion to a conclusion and allow the

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Speaker 2: chamber to disperse because the item was over and it

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Speaker 2: was a unanimous vote to support and retain those Maori constituencies,

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Speaker 2: which gives us the opportunity to go to rest Gringdom

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Speaker 2: and give the community the opportunity now to explain the

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Speaker 2: many benefits of having made boys around the table, so

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Speaker 2: that that's really what had happened on Facebook, so that

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Speaker 2: that was our staff and you know that was probably

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Speaker 2: not not a good move, and that they did come

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Speaker 2: down a couple of them afterwards. So that was a

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Speaker 2: discussion that I had with our vee.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys have security.

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Speaker 2: Not full time security.

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Speaker 1: So we're there security that they're on the day, No.

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Speaker 2: Not that I was aware of. So when I looked

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Speaker 2: into whether we have a policy now that given this

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Speaker 2: is the first time it's happened in the Hawks Bay

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Speaker 2: Regional Council, we don't have a policy around being game pictures,

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Speaker 2: but we need to have one now of course.

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Speaker 1: Because the law we don't because presumably, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what your alcohol or drugs policy is, but

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Speaker 1: it's against the lord smoke meta. You wouldn't let someone

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Speaker 1: come in and smoke methan in your chamber. Do you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean?

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Speaker 2: No, no, And it's against the law and the laws

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Speaker 2: enforced by police. And in this situation and council buildings,

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Speaker 2: you'd have a policy. And those that provide public service

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Speaker 2: areas like a district city councils have a really strong,

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Speaker 2: robust policy around being in game pictures. It's never happened

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Speaker 2: for us, so the one, but we will have one now.

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Speaker 1: In the future. Call you'd call one one one, I guess,

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Speaker 1: would you and say, yeah, because.

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Speaker 2: We're follow a policy that looked at you know, asking

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Speaker 2: those members leave your jackets in the car not acceptable

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Speaker 2: to bring in the building.

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Speaker 1: Did they say anything while they were there anyway?

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Speaker 2: No, no, And look in the room. It was very

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Speaker 2: peaceful come and a celebratory rue. There was no there's

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Speaker 2: no words from them. There was no intimidation.

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Speaker 1: No one felt scared.

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Speaker 2: No, no, and you know, just just to be clear

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Speaker 2: that they came through near the end of the item,

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Speaker 2: and so the best thing was to carry on, bring

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Speaker 2: it to conclusion and then allow people to leave once

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Speaker 2: we head voted. It's a situation.

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Speaker 1: Thank you right, Thank you very much for your time

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Speaker 1: for explaining it to us, I really appreciate it. Hineway

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Speaker 1: at Ormsby, who is the Hawks Bay Regional Council Chair.

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