Fiscal Sustainability In Benefits

Uh, I've got I've got Q's response to me. We've dug it out, so I'll get to it in just a minute. Um, Cam Roy Guard Heather was brilliant. Love that. I love that we're getting behind this. You know, there was a bit of football. It was a bit of a football drama going on there. It was pretending to be to be sicker than he actually was. Heather, are you on the funny gas? Barbara Edmonds can't count to 10, let alone know if numbers on face fiscal responsibility add up. That's from Andy. Heather, I totally disagree with you. Babs from accounts does not win. She doesn't make sense. Heather, what planet are you on? Barbara Edmunds on the TV and Z interview with Tov O'Brien and ZB interview with Mike Oskin was Clisson unable to answer any questions about where she would fund the new policies. Hold on, Dick, but uh I disagree with you. What I'm saying to you is she doesn't have to. She doesn't have to just yet, right? Because they they don't want to, they don't want to come out and announce everything on one station. Oh, here we are. Here is our suite of policies. It's not how election policies uh campaigns work. You sort of have to go through the motions with them. I'll tell you what, though, if because when's the election's November 7th? If it's October 7, and we're sitting there going, these w how you're gonna fund it. That's legit. That is a legit time to be asking that question. I just think we're a little bit early. Because you can see that it's not gonna fund it, but you've got to give them a chance to at least run it out. I'll tell you what. If I was living on Holloway Street in Wellington at the moment, Holloway Road, it's one of the oldest roads in Wellington, so it's it needs its pipes replaced. I'd be filthy at what is going on. So Wellington Water announced a couple of weeks ago that they were gonna replace this pipe and that they were gonna replace the pipe overnight. And that they were gonna try, so it's gonna be all night long, and they were honest. They were like, look, it's it's gonna be noisy, guys, every single night for 22 nights. Now, I don't know, I I I reckon that's rough. I reckon that's really rough on these people. And they said, but they're gonna try and mitigate some of the noise, so they're gonna cut off the noise at 11 o'clock. The noisiest stuff will end at 11. 11 a bloody clock. 11 o'clock. 11 o'clock is in the middle of the bloody night. I'm asleep at half past nine. What are you doing at 11 o'clock at night? That's way too late. What do they think is going on? It's vampires living on the street. Anyway, um, I I think it I I really do like I want to see. Oh, when I was in Melbourne over the weekend, and I'll tell you about that in a minute. They had people up on the scaffolding building apartments on a Saturday. And I was like, and in fact, frankly, yesterday as well on the Sunday. I thought, geez, you don't see that in New Zealand, do you? Saturdays and Sundays are sacred and holy. We shall all be going to church and definitely not up the scaffolding. Um, so I do appreciate that at least some work is getting done after hours. That's awesome. But can we, you know, when it's around people's houses, can we not do it during the day? They say, oh, the road is very narrow and they're gonna have to so what? You know, like so what? It's an inconvenience you're gonna shut down the road. It's better than doing imagine having kids on that through drive. You're nuts, wouldn't it? Anyway, um, we're gonna talk to Derek Thunder. What a name. Derek Thunder lives on Holloway Road. He's gonna be with us after five o'clock, and I'm gonna allow him to just be really filthy about it because I would be really filthy as well. Heather, get some earplugs. Mars, dream on, mate. But cutting concrete. You've heard what you know what cutting concrete sounds like. When cut concrete is being cut outside, sometimes you just want to throw yourself in front of the blade. Do you know what I mean? It's so bloody noisy. Imagine if you've got kids on that street. Don't be ridiculous. Wellington water. Jeez, not for the people. Matthew Hoot, you know. Should we talk about that later on? Let's talk about that soon. News is next.