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Mark Hooper: Federated Farmers RMA Reform Spokesperson says the Government needs to pick up the pace on RMA reforms · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Right, Mark Hooper's with us, Markey you with us.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I can here find.
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  Speaker 1: My sincere apologies about our equipment. Anyway, this business of
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  Speaker 1: the RMA, do you get the sense that the government
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  Speaker 1: is series about this or not?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they are definitely serious. They put it into the
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  Speaker 2: q Q three sorry, as you mentioned, so it's on
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  Speaker 2: the cards to make some progress in the next ninety days.
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  Speaker 2: I guess the concern was that that window is getting
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  Speaker 2: quite narrow to get a full replacement of the RMA
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  Speaker 2: done within the next or within the current parliamentary term.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the broader concern. But I think that they're
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  Speaker 2: going to still aim to do that. But I guess
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  Speaker 2: what we saw from that data that came out the
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  Speaker 2: MF released the monitoring data on local authorities and their
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  Speaker 2: implementation of the RMA definitely highlighted the urgency that this
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  Speaker 2: project has got and really tacing the RIMA is the
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  Speaker 2: most meaningful long term economic reform the government could deliver
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  Speaker 2: for us.
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  Speaker 1: In that in that is that part of the problem,
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  Speaker 1: because David Parker went away and sort of tried to
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  Speaker 1: do the same thing and he came up with nine
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  Speaker 1: hundred pages. Is it so gargantuan at least if they're
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  Speaker 1: a bit slow doing it, you want to do it right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I guess the issue is that there's only
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  Speaker 2: a short window of time available to get that into
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  Speaker 2: the parliamentary process. So so that's that's a priority. But
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't think it's so much a case
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  Speaker 2: of it haspening to be a gag intulant Is that
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  Speaker 2: the word you use. I think it Actually what we
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  Speaker 2: actually need is a relatively simple reform. We need good
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  Speaker 2: direction that just you know, kind of restores the overall
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  Speaker 2: balance of our full well beings around environment, economic, social
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  Speaker 2: and cultural values. You know, we need a more enabling system,
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  Speaker 2: we need good protection of property rights, and we need
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  Speaker 2: to maintain a good democratic process around us.
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  Speaker 1: So you can't argue with that, can you? Mark listener?
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate your getting up early for us, although you're probably
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  Speaker 1: already up. You're not in therey, are you.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I mentioned in Wellington at the moment,
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  Speaker 2: Primary Industry summits on and we had early great awards
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  Speaker 2: night last night.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well I hope, yeah, I hope you had
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  Speaker 1: a good time and well done for getting up early
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  Speaker 1: for us. Appreciate it very much.
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