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Andrew Dickens: We're still waiting for answers on the ferries · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So did you hear the disappointment oozing out of that
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  Speaker 1: maritime union guy I just spoke to when we find out,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the break fee for the inter island ferries
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  Speaker 1: will be around three hundred million hurricanes, it's more like
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  Speaker 1: a billion. But that recon felt like a reckon, if
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. The fairies, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: only cost five hundred and fifty one million dollars, so
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  Speaker 1: three hundred mil that's sixty percent of the cost of
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  Speaker 1: the ferries just to break the contract. So if we
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  Speaker 1: do accept that a billion dollars has been spent on
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  Speaker 1: nothing at all, it's making labours light rail fiasco look trivial.
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  Speaker 1: The union guy caught all the situation Nikola Willis's mistake,
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  Speaker 1: and I have to say I agree. She is hoping
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  Speaker 1: to be remembered as the savior of the economy, but
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  Speaker 1: she will never escape this billion dollar boat botch up,
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  Speaker 1: a botch up she jumped into because I think she
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to strike a blow against labor and they're spending.
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  Speaker 1: And also Kiwi Rail, who seemed to think the government
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  Speaker 1: is an open bank. Winston Peters is rushing to patch
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  Speaker 1: things up. We always seem to forget what the real
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  Speaker 1: cost of the project is. Yeah, five hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: mil on some boats, but it's the wharves and more
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  Speaker 1: particularly the Wellington Wolves. They need to be renovated. They
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  Speaker 1: need to be earthquake strengthened, they need to be future proofed.
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  Speaker 1: We need to decide if they need real infrastructure at
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  Speaker 1: all so we can roll a train on a ship
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  Speaker 1: or do we have a terminal where we swap off
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  Speaker 1: over the cargo. We need to decide the capacity of
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  Speaker 1: the terminals. And these are all questions that never make
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  Speaker 1: the public decision. It was a three to four billion
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  Speaker 1: dollar project. The boats are only five hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: millli of that, So where's the debate on all the rest?
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  Speaker 1: And as we wait for Winston's grand answer to this
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  Speaker 1: three billion dollar question, I hope he will cover those
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