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Kieran McAnulty: Labour's Housing Spokesperson on the Government's plans to revise the housing development regulations · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: You chairm a new board for kying or a new
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  Speaker 1: writing instructions from the Housing Minister. Of course, financial stabilities
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  Speaker 1: the key. It all comes out of the Build English
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  Speaker 1: review claiming they weren't financially sustainable. Big Housing announcement too,
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  Speaker 1: coming today from the government Labor Housing Spokesbiston Curre and
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  Speaker 1: Maconnulty is with us. Karen, very good morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: I thought, well, thank you. Reports are they going to
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  Speaker 1: flood the country with land and it's coming today that
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  Speaker 1: you would agree with, wouldn't you.
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  Speaker 2: It was the approach I take, Mike, and I've said
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  Speaker 2: this publicly a number of times, is if it's a
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  Speaker 2: good idea, I'll say so, we need more houses and
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  Speaker 2: it's going to take an approach across governments to get there.
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  Speaker 2: Not everything the government's going to do is done, and
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  Speaker 2: so we've got to back it because the constructions we
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  Speaker 2: need certainty and that's one way we can provide it.
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  Speaker 2: In opposition the.
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  Speaker 1: Change in board, the change in CEO. Do you get
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  Speaker 1: what they're trying to do or not?
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, we don't have any faith in the report
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  Speaker 2: because it contained factual and accuracies, and we'll based on
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  Speaker 2: wrong assumptions and they were outbined by the board to
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  Speaker 2: the report before it was released. They were ignored. The
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  Speaker 2: Minister could have taken that seriously, but has decided to
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  Speaker 2: just flip the board as a way to deal with it.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't actually deal with the problem that klang Aura
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  Speaker 2: were doing what was asked of them, and that was
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  Speaker 2: to build a hell of a lot of houses, a
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  Speaker 2: record number, in fact, the most since the nineteen fifties.
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  Speaker 2: That was going to cost money. They were doing what
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  Speaker 2: they were instructed and they should be instructed and backed
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  Speaker 2: to continue to build houses because the result is ultimately
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  Speaker 2: they aren't now the only houses that are being built
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  Speaker 2: by kyng Aura were those that were funded by the
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  Speaker 2: previous government. And if we actually do want to sort
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  Speaker 2: this housing crisis out, klang Ura needs to play a
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  Speaker 2: part alongside community hasing providers.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be talking to Chris Bishop later on in the program.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate Time Care Mcinulti, Labor Housing spokesperson
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