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Sam Uffindell: Tauranga MP praises council for work on landslide inquiry · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So at the Mount. The recovery is on Whold because
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  Speaker 1: of safety. They had a visually last night for the victims.
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  Speaker 1: Turning at MP Sam Uffundel's with me this morning, Sam,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, right? How are you yet? Well? Think you?
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  Speaker 1: How's your community doing.
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  Speaker 2: Well? Community is doing a pretty tough mate. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's obviously an incredibly challenging time for everyone, and there's
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  Speaker 2: a huge distress with the with the families of course,
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  Speaker 2: and first responders have been incredible. But I will say
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  Speaker 2: about community that there's been a mess of out pouring
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  Speaker 2: of love and support and it's it's come together really
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  Speaker 2: really strongly. We've seen I've seen a huge numbers of
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  Speaker 2: offers of food and accommodation and and support coming and
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  Speaker 2: pouring through. But beyond that, I mean there's it's very
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  Speaker 2: airie down at the Mount. I mean you've spent a
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  Speaker 2: bit of time there before. A wonderful place, but it's
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  Speaker 2: very quiet and it's very somber, and it's really rock
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  Speaker 2: the community.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah one hundred. You've also got good people in your
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  Speaker 1: community who were coming out and saying, you know, four
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  Speaker 1: hours before this tragedy happened, I was warning people about
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  Speaker 1: it I told the council rang the cops, what are
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  Speaker 1: you you're the local representative, what do you think about
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  Speaker 1: what they're saying?
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  Speaker 2: Well, tcs toting a city council has rightfully got on
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  Speaker 2: the front foot watching inquiry to look into what happened
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  Speaker 2: leading up to it, and that's the right thing to do,
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  Speaker 2: and they want to establish all of the facts and
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  Speaker 2: get them out there the very public. I want it
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  Speaker 2: to be open and transparent, and once we've got all
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  Speaker 2: of that in front of us, then we can have
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  Speaker 2: a better look at it all. But there are people
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  Speaker 2: that we're saying that, and those those opinions and comments
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  Speaker 2: or will definitely have to be factored into it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we need to take learnings out of this.
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  Speaker 2: If there were things that should have been or could
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  Speaker 2: have been done better, that needs to be on the table.
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  Speaker 2: And we need to make sure that that things like
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  Speaker 2: this don't happen again where it can be prevented.
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  Speaker 1: I'm hearing from businesses this morning there are eight cafes
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  Speaker 1: apparenting inside the cordon at the moment that can't open.
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  Speaker 1: They'll be losing money. Is the cordon need to be
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  Speaker 1: that wide? Have you heard this concern from businesses.
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  Speaker 2: I have had some businesses raising it with me, and yes,
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  Speaker 2: there are a number of businesses inside the cordon, and
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  Speaker 2: the cordon has been put in place by the place
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  Speaker 2: along with the emergency services. Look, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 2: pass judgment on where that cordon should be the best
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  Speaker 2: place to determine that, and that there is a lot
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  Speaker 2: of sensitivity down there and they're dealing with with what
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  Speaker 2: is still a pretty volatile site. There is a considerable
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  Speaker 2: amount of heavy machinery coming in and out of that cordon.
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  Speaker 2: But in saying that, yes, these businesses they will be
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  Speaker 2: losing money, are losing money and there needs to be
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  Speaker 2: a look at how that can be addressed as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, now, just finally, you know, there's two schools of thought.
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  Speaker 1: I've been speaking to friends who are in Totong but
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  Speaker 1: also just around the traps. This is just a horrible accident,
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  Speaker 1: an act of God, whatever you want to call it.
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  Speaker 1: And you know you would never have prevented this tragedy
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  Speaker 1: from happening. There's people who say that these people who say, look,
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  Speaker 1: they should have done more, could have done more. What
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  Speaker 1: are your thoughts, Sam.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to dart to anything there, but I'll
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  Speaker 2: just say that it's a terrible, terrible tragedy. It's a
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  Speaker 2: horrific time for Totong, it's a horrific time for the community,
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  Speaker 2: and in particular it's awful for those families. But I
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  Speaker 2: can make convention them again of our first responders, how
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  Speaker 2: incredible they have been. I've never been more proud of
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  Speaker 2: them watching them at work. They are they are heroes
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  Speaker 2: and I want to say thank you for them.
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  Speaker 1: Sam, appreciate your time this morning, Thanks for being with
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  Speaker 1: me and thoughts. Please pass on our thoughts to your community.
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  Speaker 1: Sam up and Dell the Totong at MP.
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