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Speaker 1: So I find it a bit ironic that the government

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Speaker 1: and the electorate are once again keen on getting rid

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Speaker 1: of some of the layers of our council bureaucracy. The

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Speaker 1: irony is this, First we've got New Zealand, first, Shane

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Speaker 1: Jones publicly questioning the role of regional councils, wondering whether

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Speaker 1: there's going to be a compelling case for regional government

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Speaker 1: to continue to exist. Then the Prime Minister, Christopher Leuxan

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Speaker 1: told Mike Hosking that the government was looking at local

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Speaker 1: government reform, and on Friday, Matthew Houghton wrote a piece

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Speaker 1: about regional councils, reiterating a question Chris Bishop has been asking,

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Speaker 1: is there any point in having regional councils. So it's

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Speaker 1: on the table, and of course the battle against bureaucracy

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Speaker 1: is alive and well around the world. Duplication of services

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Speaker 1: and excessive layers of governance means that savings could be

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Speaker 1: made easily and safely, and it's something we've already discussed.

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Speaker 1: So look last term the government reformed district health boards

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Speaker 1: from twenty boards into a single entity Health New Zealand

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Speaker 1: or and that was just because that's gone now or

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Speaker 1: is going because the new government has taken against it.

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Speaker 1: They want to return to locally delivered healthcare because they

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Speaker 1: believe in regional decision making being the best way to go,

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Speaker 1: so they're unlike that amalgamation. Meanwhile, reform of regional councils

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Speaker 1: looks awfully like the formation of all consupercity, a reform

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Speaker 1: that has heaps of enemies because of its devolution of

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Speaker 1: power away from communities, and as Houton says, the reason

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Speaker 1: we hate the super city are the cco's council controlled organizations,

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Speaker 1: which was supposed to replicate the state owned enterprises. But

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Speaker 1: the problem there is we can't because there are no

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Speaker 1: shares in CCOs, so they become the worst of things,

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Speaker 1: a mongol hybrid of council bureaucracies and private monopolies. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: it looks like we want to amalgamate public bodies. But

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Speaker 1: in the past, as I pointed out, we don't like it.

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Speaker 1: We moan that our voices are no longer heard and

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Speaker 1: that the bureaucracies have become too huge and out of control,

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Speaker 1: so let's just centralize it. So what is it? People?

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