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Have I got one for you? Karen Chore. Karen, who doesn't get in trouble for a lot, actually? Karen Chore and her parking. The expense records show that in the years, there's two years between February 24 and February 2026. Karen parked her car at Auckland Airport for a total of eight and a half months. One time, Karen parked her car for 15 days straight at the airport. How much do you reckon it costs to park your car at the airport for 15 days straight? Well, I can answer that question for you. $630. On 11 separate occasions, she parked her car in the same short stay section for five days at a time or longer. And every single time it costs more than 300. Now, when you think so, we're talking about a 24-month period, February to February. Eight and a half months, that's a third of the time. Actually, a third of the time, her car is sleeping at the airport. And the total cost for that is about 17,000. Now, Karen's argument is that it's cheaper. And I can tell you that is a load of Tosh. Completely nonsense. She says it's because she lives in Auckland's North Shore. So it's cheaper to park the car. Like rather than get an Uber. Well, is she allowed to get an Uber? I don't know. She wouldn't, I suppose she get a crown limousine because she's a minister. But it would be cheap. And maybe on that front it is cheaper. Maybe it's cheaper than getting a crown limousine from your house on the North Shore, getting it all the way down to Auckland Airport and then back. You'd be cheaper. It's cheaper to park your car. And that's probably true. But if we're really like, because we're the Act Party here, right? So we're really into like busting those perks, doing that for a long time. And yet using the perks. But if you're really into busting the perks, what you're doing is you're getting an Uber. And Anuba, I reckon at the time of morning that Karen is driving down from Auckland's North Shore to Auckland Airport. I reckon she'd be paying maximum about 100 bucks, but she can she can text me a screenshot and show me that I'm wrong on that. But 100 bucks one way, 100 bucks the other way, that's a third, that's a third of the cost of parking there for 15 days straight. Nicola Grigg, though, just just to not make this entirely about Karen Shaw, Nicola Grigg. Girl's got some expensive taste. She she loves the valet parking at Christchurch Airport. And she has spent just in the last two and a half years. Coming up three, I suppose, two and a half years, five thousand dollars on the valet parking. What I find fascinating about this, though, is and and this is a recurring theme across these expenses, is it's not the people you think who are going to be the most expensive people in parliament. It's all it's it's quite random people. So the most the the the guys have crunched the numbers. I think it was producer Michael who's gone through all of the data. Well done. Did it by himself, didn't even use the AI. And he's found the most expensive person for each party, and I find them mildly surprising. The Māori Party Rawdri YTT, I can kind of he cost 332,000 dollars. I wouldn't have spent a cent on him. But he is the co-leader. So it is expensive, like to be the co-leader.
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