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Nick Leggett: Infrastructure NZ CEO on the Ministry of Regulation's new tipline · The SME Stream

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  Speaker 1: We've got the launch today of a red tape tip line.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Ministry of a Regulation. Seymour's idea wants
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  Speaker 1: to hear from you. Apparently infrastructure in New Zealand, bosnic
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  Speaker 1: Leggett is whether it's on that Nick morlling to you hello?
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  Speaker 1: Is this a stunt?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's going to be interesting to see what a
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  Speaker 2: tip line uncovers, isn't it. I mean what worries me
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  Speaker 2: is that we've got this sort of bureaucratic butt covering
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  Speaker 2: that drives a lot of red tape and is that
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  Speaker 2: hardwired into New Zealand's DNA now or can we do
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  Speaker 2: something about it? So I think that David Seymour's Ministry
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  Speaker 2: of Regulation is a is a good aim, but it's
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  Speaker 2: going to take more than a tip line to actually
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  Speaker 2: uncover where the problems are. You might pick up some trends,
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  Speaker 2: it's a good way of involving the public, but actually
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  Speaker 2: this is where you need politicians to lead and to act.
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  Speaker 2: And I can tell you in the infrastructure sector that
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  Speaker 2: you think about the cost of consenting And there'll be
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  Speaker 2: lots of people listening that have done in addition to
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  Speaker 2: their house or tried to build a commercial premise, the
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  Speaker 2: cost of consenting the time it takes for any amount
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  Speaker 2: of work under two hundred thousand dollars. In the infrastructure
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  Speaker 2: set that the costs are contending of sixteen percent of
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  Speaker 2: the job, it's over thirty thousand dollars. That's the sort
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  Speaker 2: of red tape.
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  Speaker 1: That they know. But that's the problem plan They know that,
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  Speaker 1: don't they.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, That's what I mean. It's about we need
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  Speaker 2: there to be some action on this stuff. And it
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  Speaker 2: just seems as though so much of red tape and
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  Speaker 2: consenting costs are people trying to protect and de risk themselves,
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  Speaker 2: whereas we've got to have a more permissive system and
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  Speaker 2: use that on that doesn't compromise on our standards, still
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  Speaker 2: really protects safety. That's another one, Mike. You know, think
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  Speaker 2: about the red cones you know on the street that
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  Speaker 2: key we's love. I mean, the government have said we
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  Speaker 2: want fewer red cones. Well, you know, I'm a director
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  Speaker 2: of a company that contracts infrastructure work and public works.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to take the risk of reducing red
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  Speaker 2: cones unless there's a law that tells me I can
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  Speaker 2: do that. So we do really have to demand like
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  Speaker 2: it's great it's a great sort of popular thing to
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  Speaker 2: say let's reduce cut through red tape, but somebody at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the day has to hold the pen
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  Speaker 2: and make sure that that happens so keywis can get
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  Speaker 2: their work done faster and we can be more productive
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  Speaker 2: of a country.
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  Speaker 1: Very well, said Nick nick Leggett, who is the Infrastructure
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand boss.