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Ryan Bridge: Have we lost the plot on Health and Safety rules? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Brooke van Valden's anti health and safety crusade. It's taken
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  Speaker 1: a rather bizarre twist, don't you think the plot twist
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  Speaker 1: that no one saw coming all bit weird. She's consulting
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  Speaker 1: the public on safe activities for kids and what they're
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  Speaker 1: allowed to do on farms like I cad you not
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  Speaker 1: watering plants and collecting chicken eggs. It's a bit of
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  Speaker 1: an odd strategy, But the strategy seems to be there's
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  Speaker 1: a potential problem with the law here. Anyone under fifteen
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  Speaker 1: is technically not allowed to work on a working farm.
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  Speaker 1: You could get fine, you could find up to fifty
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars actually, so quite a lot of money not
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  Speaker 1: to be scoffed at. But nobody's actually been done for
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  Speaker 1: letting little Johnny pick up eggs. So it's a potential problem,
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  Speaker 1: not an actual problem. And the minister's strategy surely is
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  Speaker 1: just to point out how ridiculous the law is in
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  Speaker 1: the first place. But her response sounds a bit off.
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  Speaker 1: Remember this is a minister who says we need to
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  Speaker 1: get away from over regulation, away from common consultation, away
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  Speaker 1: from the nonsense. Just let Kiwis get on with it.
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  Speaker 1: Let the businesses get on with it, Let the families
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  Speaker 1: get on with it and run their own lives. She's
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  Speaker 1: quoted as saying, we'll be consulting with farmers in the
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  Speaker 1: agricultural sector on the safety thresholds for light chores children
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  Speaker 1: can do on farms while ensuring safety is not compromised.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what on earth? All a bit gobbledygook, sounds
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  Speaker 1: a bit unnecessary, all sounds a bit odd. If there's
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  Speaker 1: a problem, then why not just change it? Why consult
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  Speaker 1: up the wazoo through till September, then waste time and
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  Speaker 1: money on officials and advice and blah blah blah. If
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  Speaker 1: it's a problem, then just make it go away quickly.
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