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Carl Findlay: Maritime Union Secretary on the potential delays and cost blowouts to the Cook Strait ferry replacement programme · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Winston's cook straight fairies are being whacked with a high
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  Speaker 1: risk Amber alert from Treasury warning there could be more
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  Speaker 1: cost blowouts delays because of back to front planning and
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  Speaker 1: some of the landside infrastructure they thought they could reuse
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  Speaker 1: can't be reused in fact. Carl Findlay, as Maritime Union Secretory,
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  Speaker 1: joins US Live this morning, Get a.
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  Speaker 2: Carl here, good morning, How are you very well?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you? What sort of infrastructure are we talking about
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  Speaker 1: that's been degraded to the point it can't be used
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  Speaker 1: in the way they thought it could be.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's nothing new to us. I mean this was
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  Speaker 2: reported back in my opinion Wallace made the silly decision
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  Speaker 2: to scrap the IRIS project and so we're siding back
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  Speaker 2: then the infrastructure issues in the cost blow out there.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, it's a real surprise to me now
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  Speaker 2: that the Treasury are jumping up and down almost three
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  Speaker 2: years later, still citing the same problem, but understanding there
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  Speaker 2: hasn't been anything done the Port of Littleton, sorry not Littleton,
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  Speaker 2: Wellington or Picton in preparation for these ferries that Winston
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  Speaker 2: sorted out to bring down.
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  Speaker 1: In Ferry Holdings Limited have come out and said they've
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  Speaker 1: done extensive due diligence. We will reuse the rail and
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  Speaker 1: road marshaling yards, we will reuse the existing buildings, but
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  Speaker 1: we need new link spans for both ports that you've
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  Speaker 1: talked about. What are link spans? And you know how
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  Speaker 1: important are they?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the very importantnes is key piece of infrastructure for
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  Speaker 2: our rail enabled fairies to get our cargo are running
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  Speaker 2: between the two islands. But the problem I have with
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  Speaker 2: what ferry holdings are. You know they were set up
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  Speaker 2: to sort all this out, so why haven't they pulled
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  Speaker 2: together the Port of Wellington, the Port of Picton, the
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  Speaker 2: Council of Wellington, the Council of Picton and pulled k
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  Speaker 2: Allen and sort of this all out so that they're
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  Speaker 2: all working off the same page. It doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 2: be any communication there. And yet you know again it's
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  Speaker 2: the taxpayer and the workers in particular that they're paying
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  Speaker 2: the price here for you know this this bloody carry
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  Speaker 2: on that we're all sick of.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, In terms of the deadline, so twenty twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: is the deadline and Treasury's gone to them and said
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  Speaker 1: you need to come up with a back up a
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  Speaker 1: plan B. What what could that look like, how could
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  Speaker 1: we keep sailing if we don't have the landside done?
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  Speaker 1: The old ferries are out of action.
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  Speaker 2: What do we do well exactly, there's someone sitting in
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  Speaker 2: the background looking at the Gracie Brothers with a project
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  Speaker 2: that they're looking at and Campbell Bay I believe it's
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  Speaker 2: called and they're they're sitting out there and they're they're
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  Speaker 2: they're waiting there to go so and that's on the
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  Speaker 2: South Island side. So yeah, other than that, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure what else we can do it just once what
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  Speaker 2: sim needs to get them hear it and bang all
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  Speaker 2: the group said together again and make them get a
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  Speaker 2: deal done.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate your transforming Calvin LA Maritime Union secretary.
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