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Ryan Bridge: It's not the mistakes that kills trust, it's the accountability dodgers · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: There's an air of arrogance and butt covering to the
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: stench that is Moa Point. Can you smell it? In
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: a nutshell, the council, the water management company, the contractor
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: were all a bit shit at their jobs. And Wellington
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: South Coast has been shat on. Guess how much? To
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: be precise, 14 billion litres of raw sewage. None of
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: them took charge of and ownership of the water treatment plant.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: They didn't talk to each other or listen enough to
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: some quite critical information and warnings it turns out. Anyone
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: getting Mount Maunganui vibes here? But the part that gets
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: me most, and should get us all, is the no-show
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: from ratepayer-funded bureaucrats ducking for cover. Council infrastructure leaders, who
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: clearly are leaders in job title only, did not meet
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: with the Crown review team to tell them about their
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: role in this shambles. They were asked for in-person meetings,
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: they were asked to sit down in front of somebody
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: and explain themselves, and they ran, they ducked, they gave
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: written responses. 14 billion litres of Wellington's digested breakfasts on
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: the beach deserves more than written answers. It's like the
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: politicians who dodged the COVID inquiry. Why would you not
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: front up in person unless you had something to hide?
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: Why would you not speak in person unless you were
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: worried about what you'd say? Did lawyers and comm staff
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: at ratepayers' expense review all of these written responses before
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: you hit send? People don't necessarily lose trust in councils
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: over mistakes. Mistakes happen to us all. Cover-ups and accountability dodgers,
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: they're the ones who flush trust down the dunny.