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Andrew Dickens: Finally we deal with RMA reform · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: For as long as I've been in talk radio, and
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  Speaker 1: I've been talking to people about RMA reform. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: I first turned up and taught radio back in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety six. It's a long time. The Resource Management Act,
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  Speaker 1: it's been around a long time too, introduced in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety one, and it's fair to say it's ballooned into
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  Speaker 1: being an albatross around our necks. To comply, you need
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  Speaker 1: to pay a fortune to check your compliance. Authorities have
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  Speaker 1: to spend weeks reviewing your plans. That costs a fortune.
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  Speaker 1: So today we're going to learn what comes next. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The reason the RMA grew like a cancer of growth
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  Speaker 1: around our progress is quite simple. Too many people took
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  Speaker 1: too many liberties and caused too much damage and worrying
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  Speaker 1: about their margins, they took shortcuts and then projects failed,
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  Speaker 1: And like so many laws, we had to take into
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  Speaker 1: account those lowest common denominators, the developers who did it cheap,
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  Speaker 1: the developers who did it bad and then liquidated the
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  Speaker 1: company to leave others to clean up the mess, or
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  Speaker 1: the people who built stuff and it fell down, or
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  Speaker 1: the people who built stuff and it polluted the environment.
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  Speaker 1: The experience is why many will not welcome today's simplification
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  Speaker 1: of the rule, but the overcompensation for those bad actors
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  Speaker 1: has cost us all too much. So today I think
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  Speaker 1: we're all looking for efficiencies. We are still looking for
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  Speaker 1: the safeguards to protect us from the cowboys who are
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  Speaker 1: far too many in our countries these days. And apparently
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be some national agency that's going to
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  Speaker 1: overlook particularly the environmental concern. So I wish Chris Bishop
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  Speaker 1: all the best of luck today. The work needs to
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  Speaker 1: be done, but again I beg the developers not to
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  Speaker 1: take the piss. Your selfish concern for your bottom line
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  Speaker 1: has resulted in this mess, so just stop it. Here's
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  Speaker 1: a thing for anybody building anything, whether you're getting a
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  Speaker 1: building consent or a resource consent or anything. Build it once,
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  Speaker 1: build it right, make it last, and care about your legacy.
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