Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Ryan Bridge: Fast Track Approvals Bill: this is not fast food anymore people, it's like a long lunch for infrastructure construction
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- 0:00Speaker 1: The fast Track Approvals Bill. It's been in the news
- 0:02Speaker 1: in the last couple of days. From fast Track, I
- 0:06Speaker 1: was thinking like fast food, like drive through, like quickly
- 0:09Speaker 1: we can get infrastructure done in this country, something we
- 0:12Speaker 1: haven't been able to do very well for a very
- 0:13Speaker 1: long time. Like you would drive in to the McDonald's
- 0:17Speaker 1: or whatever it is to get your speedy infrastructure done.
- 0:21Speaker 1: What would you like, sir, I'll have a housing development,
- 0:23Speaker 1: I'll have a bridge. Perhaps I'll have a mine on
- 0:26Speaker 1: the west coast. Yes, drive straight to window three. Pay.
- 0:30Speaker 1: There's Uncle Shane, there's cousin you know, Seymour, what's Simeon?
- 0:36Speaker 1: Ready to take your card? And then oh lo and
- 0:39Speaker 1: behold Chris Bishop gives you a free Sunday. He's on
- 0:42Speaker 1: the milkshake machine. Great, everybody's happy, bam bam bam, and
- 0:46Speaker 1: you're straight through. But no, not anymore now. They are
- 0:50Speaker 1: going to revise it and they're going to take away
- 0:53Speaker 1: some of those quick decision making powers. So the decisions
- 0:56Speaker 1: will now be made by you, guessed at a panel
- 0:58Speaker 1: of experts, not ministers. There's a new process involves on
- 1:02Speaker 1: environmental experts, EWE Authority Representatives, MALDI, Development intew Maldi experts
- 1:08Speaker 1: extended time frames. So this is not fast food anymore people.
- 1:12Speaker 1: This is like a long lunch for infrastructure construction and
- 1:16Speaker 1: New Zealand. Why can we never just get on and
- 1:20Speaker 1: build stuff just you know, who cares about a bit
- 1:24Speaker 1: of corruption, Just build it. For more from News Talks
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